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If all music is equal because it is made up of sound waves, then all books are equal because they are made up of words. Right? Yes, I actually agree. However, what makes these things art is the ideas behind them. In some cases the meaning is very obscure or purely musical but the organization of "sound waves" into meaningful concepts is what music is. I just question how it could be considered useful to think of art the way you do. That being said, I agree with you to a very minor extent about liking an artist even if their motives are suspect. Technically, it doesn't really matter what the artist is trying to convey, but I feel the music should at least convey something. What your definition of "convey" is is up to you, but whatever it is that pop music normally conveys can usually not be considered anything more profound than "I am happy" or "I am sad". Now I ask you, would you rather read soup cooking instructions than I dunno Mark Twain?

EDIT: And yes, I am familiar with art pop and other pop variants that aren't strictly speaking pop. Which is why I do not consider them "pop" as such. Here I use "pop" only to refer to top 40 music.