No, Presidents Do Not Have Any Sway Over The Pop Charts [Not Enough Protest Songs]

MSNBC entertainment correspondent Tony Sclafani has proven himself to be hacktastic in the past, so it's not surprising that his latest salvo for the cable channel's Web operation, which tries to make the case that "young Democrat presidents" result in pop music going bad, is full of by-the-numbers rock snobbery and cherry-picked examples that elevate the solo work of Don Henley and declare that the work of Max Martin as neither brilliant nor innovative. (Few pieces of music, after all, can matc...

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