'huge, queer and tawdry' but 'much admired by the public'

So people who like the same music as you are by definition assumed to have a greater depth of emotional response? A very handy way to cook the books, and one which been popular from Plato through the Utilitarians to Roger bloody Scruton. But to me it still looks like self-justifying special pleading in a last doomed effort to establish an objectivity which cannot otherwise be shown to exist.