The English Music Star Morrissey Got His Start in the Band

The English music star Morrissey got his start in the band The Smiths, singing about radical vegetarianism and bisexuality in the 1980s. He was effeminate, bleak, and sarcastic. Today, his fan base has expanded far beyond the disaffected English teenagers who bought his original records. In fact, some of his most devoted fans are Hispanics in Southern California. How is it possible that British teenagers in the 1980s and Hispanic Californians can appreciate the same music?

A) There are very few differences between these two groups.
B) Even though members of the two groups have very different experiences and perspectives, they understand Morrissey's music in the same way.
C) They bring different interpretive strategies to the experience of listening to Morrissey's music.
D) Music is universal, and all people experience it in the same way; if one group can be moved by it, then any other group will feel the same way.
E) Morrissey is transmitting messages to certain targeted audiences that subconsciously absorb them.