I feel bad referring to an MSN blog - call me a snob for decrying the populist but let’s face it most MSN stories are about Britney or X Factor or something else no one should care about - however… http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/music/features/article.aspx?cp-documentid=9617667&ocid=today>1=61501 is just so right. Abba - clever, competent, catchy but not great.

I’m tempted to say not music but that would be unfair. Music doesn’t have to be inspiring, life changing art but it can be  and anything that isn’t just shouldn’t be lauded - it can be enjoyed but not worshiped.

If Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” is Manet’s “The Bar at the Follies Bergere” then Mama Mia is the tennis girl scratching her bum - cleverly done and not without a simple (if guilty) pleasure but it ain’t great.
But  maybe I am just a snob  decrying the popullar.