^Joking aside, that seems to be the defensive position I hear with a lot of these 'prog goes pop' attempts. It's always down to a possible snobbery agenda...or the passive-aggressive 'well I have a wide taste in music so I liked it'.
'Straw man' argument, 100%. 'Permanating' sounded like Coldplay to me...not really the acts he was invoking in the 'speech' he gave which was posted here a while back.
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