To answer the question whether or not popular music is a genuine art form, firstly it must be decided what ‘popular music’ and art is. Popular music itself can have a variety of different meanings, but in this case can be taken to mean the classic idea of ‘pop music’. The manufactured commercial music of the charts. Art can be explained, at least by Wikipedia as ‘the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions’. In this raw form at least then, pop music must be art as, credible or not, it is arranged deliberately to appeal to the senses. I find problems with Adorno’s opinion in that one of his criticisms of pop music is the use of pseudo individualization, however this trait is not only found in pop music it is also a trait widely used in folk music.