Adorno on Dan — the emotional listeners ;)

„The emotional listener listens to everything in terms of late
romanticism and of the musical commodities derived from it which are
already fashioned to fit the needs of emotional listening. They consume
music in order to be allowed to weep. They are taken in by the musical
expression of frustration rather than by that of happiness. The
influence of the standard Slavic melancholy typified by Tchaikowsky and
Dvorak is by far greater than that of the most "fulfilled" moments of
Mozart or of the young Beethoven. The so-called releasing element of
music is simply the opportunity to feel something. But the actual
content of this emotion can only be frustration. Emotional music has
become the image of the mother who says, "Come and weep, my child." It
is catharsis for the masses, but catharsis which keeps them all the more
firmly in line. One who weeps does not resist any more than one who
marches. Music that permits its listeners the confession of their
unhappiness reconciles them, by means of this "release," to their social
dependence.“
https://libcom.org/article/pop-music-theodor-adorno