MixedArts FuseSordid ... There’s a sensibility here that I sometimes find cloying ... The author’s charge that user-generated playlists commodified the mixtape is true, but the fact is that most people are interested in being paid for what they choose to spend their time doing. When Pelly downplays financial pressures, she sometimes seems to imply that a musician doesn’t — or shouldn’t — want more people to like their music.
