He just couldn't handle it. The purest form of music is gospel. Mariah has nothing to do with gospel. That doesn't apply to Olympia and its elitism and its lack of spirituality. What you refer to as elitism is a couple of people sitting down and working out that what's important in pop music is how personal it is.
Pop music is either a personal or a communal experience.
It just is. I can be objective about this. What the populace wants for the most part is a lot of shit. I'm down with the lumpen mass. Well, that bothers me.