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Hi miriamson,
You want to be very careful when reading the answers and not make unwarranted assumptions.
Answer E is saying that the fact that Marsalis saturated the market with 15 albums is what made him especially vulnerable to criticism. To "saturate a market" means to provide too much of a product or service than people who want to buy them. In other words, this answer is blaming the criticism of Marsalis partly on the fact that he produced so many albums in one year, not on the actual content of the albums or on Marsalis's neotraditional views.
Nowhere in the passage is there any indication that the 15 albums saturated the market or that anyone (even his critics) complained about the number of albums that he released. As discussed in the passage, the criticism was targeted toward Marsalis's emphasis on "unbending classicism" (line 28) and "retro ideology" (line 34).
You want to be very careful when reading the answers and not make unwarranted assumptions.
Answer E is saying that the fact that Marsalis saturated the market with 15 albums is what made him especially vulnerable to criticism. To "saturate a market" means to provide too much of a product or service than people who want to buy them. In other words, this answer is blaming the criticism of Marsalis partly on the fact that he produced so many albums in one year, not on the actual content of the albums or on Marsalis's neotraditional views.
Nowhere in the passage is there any indication that the 15 albums saturated the market or that anyone (even his critics) complained about the number of albums that he released. As discussed in the passage, the criticism was targeted toward Marsalis's emphasis on "unbending classicism" (line 28) and "retro ideology" (line 34).
