Here is the way soul works, if millions upon millions of people love your songs, they give them soul and the songs return it. Max is such a gifted songwriter and producer he has an alchemic relationship with his audience. They hear sublimely what he hears upfront.
I wonder, if like cars and fridges and laugh as a whole, today’s music isn’t built to disappear, if the most important thing about this volatile pop moment is that it can and will be left behind in an instant, it should be commended on not asking us for more.