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There’s no lack of “tastemakers” in music. The problem is the absolute flood of garbage produced in bedroom studios. Cutting through the noise to find what’s
by lsadam0 9y ago
There’s no lack of “tastemakers” in music. The problem is the absolute flood of garbage produced in bedroom studios. Cutting through the noise to find what’s good has become near impossible for everyone. Popular music used to focus on scenes, the internet made sure to stomp that into the dirt.
During the rise of Napster we all liked to paint the record labels as evil. What we all failed to realize was how important labels were to seeking out and developing new talent. We’ve seen the last Bowie or Radiohead for a very long time.
- stcredzero 9y agoThere’s no lack of “tastemakers” in music. But the next thing you talk about creates an environment not conducive to developing really tasteful ones. The problem is the absolute flood of garbage produced in bedroom studios. Cutting through the noise to find what’s good has become near impossible for everyone. Popular music used to focus on scenes, the internet made sure to stomp that into the dirt. Given an environment like that, how is someone going to develop good taste? There are still music scenes, BTW. They are distinctly non-mainstream, however.
- lsadam0 9y agoI don’t think we disagree. There’s plenty of tastemakers, just an overwhelming amount of noise to cut through.
- stcredzero 9y agoThat overwhelming amount of noise might well interfere with the ecosystem of tastemakers itself.