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there was an obscure civil war in music criticism between poptimism, a fizzy future-positive willingness to both celebrate and scrutinize pop songs, and its hypothetical antagonist rockism, which stood for all the old, lumbering notions of laborious artistic seriousness, established canons and the equation of authenticity and independence, and above all for albums.

— Glenn McDonald

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