Kiss and E•MO•TION are both more acclaimed than any J-Lo studio album.
Too bad that acclaim can't translate into sales. J-Lo's 2011 album, 12 years into her music career sold more copies than Kiss. Acclaim isn't relevant in this situation. Fad. Flop.
WOW, Call Me Maybe has over 700M YT views. I didn't expect it to have that many considering it debuted before streaming became such a huge thing in 2013/2014.
I thought everyone grew up in households where music was played all the time, enthusiastically - talked about, blared out from my Dad's great system etc. I can't imagine growing up without that, poor others.
Yeah, not for me. I'm sure my taste in music was influenced by what they listened to. My mom had a cassette tape of Erykah Badu that I used to play endlessly. But I'd argue that my taste in music was mainly based on what I heard on the radio and TV. So coming from that, I'd say I've done well for myself.