Q: Hi about the 'pop music is the classical music of now' thing.. I agree with the point that I think paul was making, that popular music isn't for whatever reason less valid or has less artist merit than the "high class stuff"... but was classical music actually popular in its time? Like didn't mozart and beethoven and all those guys mostly perform for royalty and stuff? And you had to be really rich to go see an orchestra or an opera or whatever, and there wasn't any recorded music or radio or anything.... Wouldn't popular music at that time have been the music people made themselves, like traditional folk songs and church hymns and stuff??
A: yes