It's an acquired taste - and similarly, a Tango dancer from Buenos Aires would probably be equally-dismissive of most British pop music - "all that boom-boom stuff"
But Tango (traditional Tango) is at least quite tightly tied-in to the music style, that's one of its strengths. For that matter, so is "proper Blues" - there's a distinctive Blues music genre.
Less so for "MJ Blues", of course.
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