" "Lowest common denominator"....??? Now there's a class ridden statement if ever I saw one,..."

So, so keen to identify moral failings, aren't you, Rifleman?

Why do you assume that this is a 'classist' statement? After all much popular music, these days, is a mass-produced 'product' to be passively consumed by people of all classes - and a huge percentage of them don't know any better because they've never experienced anything else. And this huge edifice of manufactured pop-pap is so monumental that it tends to overwhelm everything else. Also, let's face it, a huge majority of 'music consumers' don't have their own tastes at all but are completely under the influence of various 'arbiters of cool'.

I don't think that class comes into it.