Something to Celebrate

This sentence from the Rovi music review of Madonna’s first album contains a wonderful final phrase:

And that’s the hallmark of dance-pop: every element blends together into an intoxicating sound, where the hooks and rhythms are so hooky, the shallowness is something to celebrate.

And there it is.  I tend to think that the shallowness we celebrate is the shallowness that offers us escape from who we currently are.

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