Allan Bloom’s 1987 meditation,
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students, was a run-away bestseller. Bloom made this observation of popular music:
“Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music…Today, a very large proportion of young people between the ages of ten and twenty live for music. It is their passion; nothing else excites them as it does; they cannot take seriously anything alien to music.”[1]
Cardi B’s “WAP” has proved that Bloom’s statement still holds true to this very day. Maija Kappler of the