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Maria: Popular music is bad art because it greatly exaggerates the role love plays in everyday life and thereby fails to represent reality accurately. Theo: Popular music is not supposed to reflect reality; it performs other artistic functions, such as providing consoling fantasies and helping people create some romance in their often difficult lives. You should understand popular music before you condemn it. The dialogue provides the most support for the claim that Maria and Theo disagree over whether
A: art need not represent reality accurately to be good art
B: most good art creates consoling illusions
C: art should always represent reality as it could be, not as it is
D: popular music should not be considered to be an art form