Really good pop is almost never mediocre. If it was mediocre, it wouldn&#x27;t break through. The difficulty and sophistication of ongoing pop success is underestimated.<p>There&#x27;s an important distinction between &quot;I don&#x27;t like this&quot;, and &quot;This is not good&quot;. Most people fail to make that distinction - they think that if they don&#x27;t like something, it must be bad. Taste and quality aren&#x27;t particularly congruent. (As a corollary, sometimes we like things that are actually bad.)