The views of Adorno

Adorno’s theory focuses on culture industries and how they can encourage false needs. Culture industries will produce commodities to fulfil people’s false needs, and will exploit the public. Within Adorno’s theory he openly addresses his opinion that he feels all popular music is, to put it politely...rubbish! In relation to Alexandra Burke’s version of ‘Hallelujah’, Adorno would have little respect for her cover version, and would not even value the worth of the lyrics. His view is very old fashioned, biased and limited in terms of describing contemporary popular music. Adorno would prefer the original version of ‘Hallelujah’ and would undoubtedly hold the view that Alexandra’s version has ruined the original, and was simply released to meet society’s false needs and to exploit them further.