题目选项分析

Music critic: Fewer and fewer musicians are studying classical music,decreasing the likelihood that those with real aptitude for such music will be performing it. Audiences who hear these performances will not appreciate classical music's greatness and will thus decamp to other genres. So to maintain classical music's current meager popularity, we must encourage more young musicians to enter the field.

Which of the following, if true, most weakens the music critic's reasoning?

【选项】The continued popularity of a given genre of music depends in part on the audiences being able to understand why that genre attained its original popularity.