This is a convoluted part which tends to mean (depending on how I'm feeling when I explain) that I didn't quite like Fevers and Mirrors half as much as everybody else I gave it to did. It was suprising though, because everybody makes the mistake of thinking that the music that they listen to is so intimately kept aside that a wide scale of popularity would be quite unexpected. That's what I meant, although it was put pretty basically and I can't say I was going out of my way to make much sense. I do like to think that everybody can enjoy a musician's work on some level, just like when I was watching my old flatmate watch an entire two hours of the Arcade Fire on television after me spending three years in the past enjoying them when they were not so well known. It was kind of satisfying, if patronising. The music industry seems to anticipate the exhaustive trends of pop music in order to make a big sell on an indie record and get massive credentials. I have no idea why I had to bring any of that up. Your comment must have made me first quite indignant and then argumentative. I don't know why they follow one another but they do.
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