I think Tom made a really good point way above about
Travis/Moby etc. - I think why they tend to be more immediately
irritating is that they are not only overplayed, but they are
overplayed in the assumption that we should thank the radio
stations for playing this music with such innovative and
risk-taking qualities; it's the value gap between the rhetoric and
the actual product that I resent. Celine and her lobbyists rarely
make such claims - or at least not in the circles I move in - so
there's no need for me to refute them with every breath.
― Tim, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link