Greatness is in the eye of the beholder. Lots of people pretend that a youth dying is tragic but really it's happening right now and no one cares, but a dying octogenarian who is your grandmother would be tragic. That's what I mean when I say greatness. You have to have some skin in the game.

She may sound different on an indie (although XL is actually an indie label, but a big one, it's kind of a made up term really), but I don't really buy into the idea that an indie (read: small) label offers much that a big label doesn't. Rick Rubin produced her album. That's a boon that an indie can't offer.

And if you look over the weekly music thread, the most well-known bands on there this week are Steely Dan (with the caveat that it's a boring band to even mention), The Allman Brothers (which has the one boop that everyone in the thread gets), and Motorhead (because Lemmy died). I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but that's the 'into-music-music scene' way. Why tell people about bands they're already aware of? So mainstream stuff doesn't get brought up as it's assumed that people already know about it. Regardless of how much better it might be than what does get brought up.