Theodor Adorno Popular music and Protest

I believe, in fact, that attempts to bring political protest together with popular music that is, with entertainment music are for the following reason doomed from the start. The entire sphere of popular music, even there where it dresses itself up in modernist guise is to such a degree inseparable from past temperament, from consumption from the cross-eyed transfixion with amusement, that attempts to outfit it with a new function remain entirely superficial !nd I have to say that when somebody sets himself up, and for whatever reason sings maudlin music about "iet #am being unbearable I find that really it is this song that is in fact unbearable, in that by ta$ing the horrendous and ma$ing it somehow consumable, it ends up wringing something li$e consumption%ualities out of it.