On being a hypocritical James

I really can't stand this kind of thing. Something about the way in which it assumes that everyone needs to be saved from their current likes, and switch to the author's, is completely infuriating. Plus it is rather muddled to say the least: 'everybody likes something that is easy to understand – I’m a Hollyoaks fan myself' she says, before going on to criticise the existence of anything easy to understand (which of course the admittedly rather fab Mystery Jets couldn't possibly be!).
To be fair, my stuff on the same site is twenty times worse at least, but still.
The thing is... it's hard to tell how much of this dislike is down to the piece itself or how much of it is down to the fact that I really do like the bands in question. Yes, I like Travis, Embrace, even Keane!None of them are among my favourites, but then Elbow and to a lesser extent Coldplay are and plenty of people look upon both of those in the same way.
The idea of many seems to be that people who like this music either aren't really into music at all (the infamous '5-album a year' types) or are on their way to realising the error of their ways and liking either super-obscure Pitchfork-approved indie or mainstream pop music instead. this is a constant annoyance because it still hasn't happened to me. I wouldn't necessarily mind if it did, but here I am buying more like 50 albums a year, including some pretty obscure stuff, and a fan of Gwen Stefani, Natasha Bedingfield and all to boot, and yet 'pop by numbers' still holds a great appeal.
And what seals the idea that it's only because I disagree that I dislike it so much, and makes me feel vaguely uncomfotable, is that despite being possibly even more shoddy, I can't bring myself to hate this. Because I really really hate James Blunt. And I don't like hating something so seemingly harmless so strongly and irrationally at all, but I can forgive any nonsense in the article just because its main point is against him. Oh well.