I mean I get where the impulse comes from, it's rockism right.
Most critics can't talk about abstract music, because that would make them historians, rather than lit study grads or sociologists.
@luka 's antipathy to nerds is healthy but it comes from this impulse. bourgeois bohemians despise music as being a form of scientific enquiry. The cult of the genius still reigns supreme.
I don't rate nerds either but the antithesis to nerds isn't the liam gallagher simpleton, it's the disciplinarian proletarian terrorist.