the difference between pop and country is ideology. the difference between rap and country is race. the difference between pop and rap is gender. the difference between all of that and NPR folk is class.
the difference between pop and country is ideology. the difference between rap and country is race. the difference between pop and rap is gender. the difference between all of that and NPR folk is class.
the difference between musical theatre and the rest of music is not gender or sexuality or ethnicity or genre or even how annoying, it's about the particular mode of being annoying
(me to my children on theatre kids: 'we tolerate them as part of society but we are not like them')