childish v childlike - Soundgarden - Just Like Suicide

on the idea of childish v childlike (286): Adorno places childish listening in a negative category, calling these listeners primitive, retarded, neurotic, stupid (and what an asshole he is, geez):

"they are childish; their primitivism is not that of the undeveloped, but that of the forcibly retarded...they are not merely turned away from more important music, but they are confirmed by their neurotic stupidity, quite irrespective of how their musical capacities are related to the specific musical culture of earlier social phases"

1. Can we take seriously a theory which insults and disregards an entire culture of taste?
Whether or not this is the theorists/critics taste, doesn't their need to be some attempt at objectivity in order to be regarded as theory? I find this approach childish.

2. Children DO love repetition and "find great delight in bright colors" (289). Does this necessarily have to be a regressed state? Children also enjoy food, comfort, to be caressed, to be talked to sweetly, to be loved...do the regular appearances of these things throughout adult life also constitute a form of primitivism, too?

3. What constitutes "more important music"?

This song by Soundgarden is repetitious, what I would call full of "individual instrumental colors," has a chorus, a melody...all of the "formula" of supposed popular music -- yet it's never been a popular radio hit that I know of. And I love it. If this is childish, I don't want to grow up. Adorno makes being a musical adult sound like a fucking pretentious snob fest. Quick! Be avante garte or Adorno will call you names!