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>he recites album reviews he read in a magazine or something in order to seem cultured.
pretty sure critics weren‘t bloviating like this about Phil Collins or Huey Lewis (Ellis is a Costello fan btw, literally the most critically overrated artist), the point of these chapters is to show how emotionally stunted Bateman is in the way he intellectualizes music rather than connecting with it on a deeper level, I‘m sure /classical/ is full of this