My wife recently gave a concert of Spanish songs at a shopping-mall community center for an audience of about thirty people. No charge for admission. She can sing!
Taylor Swift's concert last week in Seattle set a record of 72,000 in attendance at Lumen Field, an outdoor venue where the Seahawks play football. Ticket prices were reportedly between $700 and $1200. People say she can sing.
I don't follow this kind of entertainment, so I had to go to YouTube and listen to as much of a Taylor Swift song as I could endure. I guess the level of her artistry is the reason she takes most of her clothes off to keep the audience at attention.
This kind of incongruity is pervasive in contemporary culture. Choirs singing Handel and Mozart are struggling in churches on the verge of extinction, while rock bands fill megachurch auditoriums. God and the angels have either gone deaf or they're punishing us for our sins.
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