It's not just the Internet. It's that culture has changed. Not everything is based around music, and even when it is, it's got the televisual/life-story element

It's not just the Internet. It's that culture has changed. Not everything is based around music, and even when it is, it's got the televisual/life-story elements (admittedly aided by social media) that are magnitudes more involved than before. No earlier generation had anything like X Factor or the Kardashians. They are phenomena as large as or larger than the nearest equivalent cultural omnipresences of earlier days (Elvis, The Beatles).