Is popular music a mass produced commodity or a genuine art form?

A theorist that would argue that popular music is a mass produced commodity is Theodore Adorno. Being a Marxist, Adorno was very anti capitalism and believed that the way popular music is produced and distributed is part of the capitalist machine and distracts the public from real problems. He believed that the whole structure of popular music is standardised.  His two main reasons behind this was part interchangeably ,many resources used to produce popular music coming from the same source, and pseudo individualism, the idea that record companies provide an illusion that they are always releasing new products when they are actually recycling and repackaging old material. A prime example of pseudo individualism is the television show The X Factor. A theorist that would disagree with Adorno is Bernard Gendron who argues that music is consumed differently to other mass produced commodities and that even if something is copied its context can still change for example the two versions of My Way by Frank Sinatra and The Sex Pistols.