Week 3~ Is popular music a mass produced commodity or a genuine art form?

It’s a fair assumption to say that when music is first produced it is not with the belief that it is going to make lots of money and be world famous; instead it is created as a thought process from someone trying to create art. Where then is this line crossed and music becomes a mass produced commodity? Personally I feel that music is an art form to a certain degree even if it means taking a song that already exists and changing it i.e. Frank Sinatra and The Sex Pistols versions of “My Way”. A song created slightly differently to another still makes it a different song therefore escaping the concept of mass produced commodity. Theodor Adorno believed that popular music was a commodity due to the way it was produced differently from classical music (Adorno’s favourite) though this is not valid as all music is produced slightly differently. It is an art form as it is still someone creating an art regardless of what shape it takes.