Unwashed masses factor

[lupinesque]

Tabouli wrote:

> > P.S. Ahh, Dicentra, I see you share my irritation with what I call
> the "Unwashed Masses factor"... if it's popular it must be bad!  
Let's
> go spray graffiti on their ivory tower some time... (glances
> thoughtfully at Elkins, a known graffiti artist on the main list...)

Dicentra wrote:
 
> No, no. It's not BAD, it's Beneath Us. 

There are exceptions, however.  Lit crit people drool over Madonna, 
who's about as Beloved by the Unwashed Masses as one can get.  Of 
course, they don't talk about her music per se, but about the 
Cultural Phenomenon, the Gender Issues, etc., raised by her, uh, 
oeuvre, which IMNSHO are as boring and predictable as her (so-called) 
lyrics and (ibid) singing.

Amy
who wants to know what kind of sicko killed all those elephants just 
to make a tower