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Interesting analogy, but it makes sense. If performance is an art, it is not a MUSICAL art. It's a stage thing. What SW censures is the mockery of musical art, in which a person is praised for their music where in fact, that very music was not written BY the performer, and in some cases, isn't even truly performed BY the performer (i.e. lip-synchers like Ashley Simpson), which happens a lot in the pop-music industry. Performers like that often have large stages with lavish productions, perhaps to make up for the fact that there's not much else but the performance itself.
SW speaks of musical integrity, and I'm inclined to agree. While the music might sound good to some, the problem isn't the music or the performers themselves, but rather the problem is how it is brought together. Few pop artists write their own music alone, or at all, and then they're given all the praise for it because they performed it. It's a musical deception. I know there are people out there who make a living off of writing for other people, but to me, it just feels wrong. I feel like these artists' albums should all have every writer's and musician's names on the cover, and NOT just the performer's name. And it's so backwards that, in this world, the masses would publicly praise and fund the performers while bands with music by musicians who write for themselves (and not for the public/money/success) aren't well lauded by the world as a whole.
-Marc.