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Posted Apr 18, 2012 by  paulh. I'm a fool, but please think of me as a jester
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  | | The passage of time -- large amounts of it -- does a pretty good job of winnowing out whoever was over-rated during his/her lifetime. If rock music seems to have a high rate of retention in the public's collective memory, that's only because it hasn't been around as long as opera [400+ years and counting], the symphony [almost 300 years], and folk music [no one really knows how long, as many early examples are presumed lost]. Hip Hop and Rap are even younger. Musical theater? I read somewhere that the earliest known musical play was Adam de la Halle's "The Play of Robin and Marion" (1283). Styles change every so often, so it probably would not have a long run if it went on Broadway or London's west End nowadays.
Chances are, pretty nearly *all* living musicians are over-rated. Does it matter? Not to me, though I cultivate a probably delusional hope that I know the few who are *not* over-rated. 
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Posted Apr 22, 2012 by HonestIago
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| | >>What are people's thoughts on this? Is it akin to the dualism described in "My Six eeks with Marilyn," in which themovie star wants to be a great actress, and the great actor wants to be a movie star? Popularity breeds a desire for great respect?<<
To some degree it's a false dichotomy. Bear McCreary was initially noted (famous is too strong a word) for his band but then went on to do film and TV scores, most notably the new BSG, and was exceptionally good at it (in fact I need to mention him in the other thread).
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