Adorno

Adorno argued that popular music is just a simpulification of the older musical idioms of the classical and romantic style. Adorno argued that “capitalism fed people with the products of a 'culture industry' - the opposite of 'true' art - to keep them passively satisfied and politically apathetic.” (theory.org.2008) Emerging mass culture of popular music weekend the critical consciousness and manipulated the working classes”. (Maconis&Plummer, 2002, p116) According to Adorno, the people who listened to popular music showed infantile characteristics, he argued that people needed to listen to what he called real music but were unable to as the continued to listen to popular music. Adorno argued that the” popular music produced by the culture industry is dominated by two processes: standardisation and pseudo-individualisation” (Strinati, 2004) He argued that the culture industries “shaped the tastes and preferences of the masses, thereby moulding their consciousness by instilling the desire for false needs” (IBID)

Sociological studies of the beatles songs follow adornos theory. many dissmiss there music as just simply popular music with no meaning. however those that listen to there music will discover that there music places them at the top of the musical elite of the 20th centuary.

Adorno had nothing to do with the Beatles and was horrified by their repetitious and over-simplified songs

A random piece of internet rumor found on the internet was that Adorno from the frankfurt school wrote the beatles music untill his death in 1969 which can be seen in the below video



of course this isnt true 99% of beatles songs were written by john lennon and paul mccartney under the northen songs production company,