People snicker when anyone tries to evaluate Spears’ legitimacy as a musical artist, and there will always be those who shrug off pop music entirely. And that’s fine. Mumford and Sons and Arctic Monkeys are fantastic bands, but you will never convince me that their skills on the guitar are any more musically important than Lady Gaga’s ability to reduce an entire stadium to tears simply by telling them they were born this way. We’re just going to have to agree to disagree because it’s all relative; no definitive answer on what constitutes great music exists.
It’s just different strokes for different folks.
What do you think?