Diana Krall

"Again, music is a matter of taste. No rights and no wrongs."

While each individual has the right to consume whatever suits their individual tastes, there are standards of excellence in the arts that must be maintained and recognized. Not everyone possesses the ability to recognize or appreciate true artistic ability. But there are "rights and wrongs" even if everyone doesn`t have the ability to recognize it.

Any person with average smarts who listens to live acoustic music unamplified over a few decades will develop a sense
of what is excellent , good, fair or poor in music .

It is a matter of taste , good taste or bad taste . It takes considerable effort to own the first.

IMHO, any person with average smarts that lacks sportsmanship is no connoisseur. He or she is pretty much a common snob, nothing more nothing less!

Of course there are standards of excellence in the arts and this comment is not about DK.  Why should the arts be any different than any other endeavor in that regard.  Is the relatively casual observer/fan of figure skating just as qualified to discern the level of excellence (or lack of) in a skater as someone who has devoted a lifetime to studying the sport or is a skater himself?  I don’t think so.  Relativism in order to justify personal taste (subjectivity) is a sure way to stop learning and growing as a listener; and there is so much to learn.