If you are a musician and play for the music, not fame, glory, or women, then you will recall listening to a tune or piece of music and dismissing it out of hand as “commercial”. I remember.
My buddy Victor Moreno loaned us Jazz by Ken Burns and I was pleased to see that this practice goes back many decades.
Real musicians versus profiteers.
Which isn’t to say that commercial music is always without musical merit, but mostly is.
When I was jamming back in the eighties the commercial music scene was far more wholesome than today’s, and yet we true musician’s still puked at the thought of producing such crap. So we don’t.
And are happy musicians. But out there somewhere, is someone who will say, when listening to our tunage. . . “commercial”.
Final analysis and Off Every Day’s reason to be, it’s the music.