I thought the malstrom fad was over I guess I was wrong.........

Disagree with Malstrom.

Miyamoto is not holding up a mirror that shows a new reflection. The reflection has already been shown, much more creatively, by several games - including one Miyamoto has praised:

Electroplankton for the DS

Like Wii Music, there's no score, no game, but it's better as it allows far more creativity than Wii Music, you can make your own beats, change the range and pitch of the notes, and it even includes a 4-track recorder. And no matter what you do, the music usually comes out sounding good.  

I agree that hardcore gamers are stupid for being upset that there's no score, but hardcore gamers are always stupid. Just because they're wrong doesn't mean Wii Music will be any good.

I'd feel better about the game if it contained a sequencer which let you create mp3 files of the music you make and export them to SD cards.

...Or does it do that?

Furthermore, why is Malstrom writing this before the game is released? Shouldn't this article be written after he and the rest of us have had an extensive amount of play time with the game?

"This is the closest game to become art"

lol @ you, Malstrom.

Malstrom has his prejudices, but as usual, people are focusing on the petty details of his argument and not seeing the main point. Wii Music is engineered to deliver the experience of playing music to the player. Not the learning phase of it like Guitar Hero and the like, but the actual motions and generalized actions of playing music without the specifics to hamper the experience.

Most people don't want to have to learn how to do something to enjoy it; barriers to the good bits of the experience do not make for fun for normal people. The entire Wii series thrives on removing barriers, and Wii Music is no exception. The discriminating gamer may not be able to see the value in it, but anybody on the "outside" of the music game phenomenon can see the appeal to a lack of a learning curve or score-keeping system instantly.

Reading his article makes me want to check out the game :p

This will quite possibly be the worst game to sell over 5 million copies.

Good read, I'm glad to hear not everyone hates Wii Music, well, not that its as hated as Wii Fit was

Also

At a Nintendo developer’s roundtable event this evening in Los Angeles, a German journalist asked Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto if it would be more appropriate to call “Wii Music,” which lacks goals and points, a “toy” rather than a “video game.”

Miyamoto replied tersely: “Yes, that’s right. And that’s why it’s more interesting than a video game.”

Do you ever get the feeling Miyamoto is just messing with journo's??

You're absolutely right but here's what I fear with Wii Music. Wii Music is a great idea but it should allow people to compose songs in the same way we used to do with Mario Paint (add the sharps and flats though) in a special mode. What I fear of Wii Music is that we don't get enough for our money. If they can throw in a small midi editor then I'm sold.

Wii Music is not going to sell 5 million copies. Notice how Malstrom was already making apologies at the beginning of the article, noting that it may sell poorly.

The only exception is Japan, where I'm sure it will be a hit, since that market lacks a major console music game.