*breaking my rule about responding to 'guests' just once*

" invalidating their personal tastes"...

no one "invalidates" diddly-squat....they are as free to say they don't like MY taste in little old ladies singing, long, quavering, off-key ballads! I listen anyway! And anytime I post my preferences openly, I take the chance that someone will make a remark about it. I don't care for Elvis...YOU may listen anyway. That's how it goes.

some songs strike some people as shallow, banal drivel....so? This is a PUBLIC forum where one can trade views on such things...and if someone has the courage of their convictions, they will like what they like, in spite of silly remarks!

It's the same in art, cooking, choice of automobiles and décor..."you eat WHAT?" "you painted your bathroom WHAT color?".."you really LIKE that abstract non-sense?".."a BUICK?"

People are going to disagree, and some are going to joke about it....we welcome EVERYONE to this site to, among other things, discuss and compare tastes!..If no one did anything but post lists of favorites, it would get mighty dull very fast!