It's the packaging... Most new music is made by children of label execs, and children of rich people where they use money to polish a turd... Great music comes

It's the packaging... Most new music is made by children of label execs, and children of rich people where they use money to polish a turd... Great music comes from people who are "hungry" and suffering, now Labels don't do A&R (Discovery) to find that kind of tested talent... They just pick a kid off the Disney or America's Got Talent circuit, give them a salary, and teach them how to be musicians, and write their songs. Social media sites push down good indie music in favor of pop machine record label artists, and listeners are flooded with examples of how modern music sucks, and buying music has now become a process of needing to sift through different music sites just to hear audio clips, and then registering an account that tracks your every move and sends you spam. Click farms boost hits for "chosen" artists to make them look popular even before they have an album out now. We used to be able to just go to a record shop and listen to CDs based on simple genres, and buy albums at unreasonable prices, but all of that is gone now. It's an endlessly repeating cycle for people. The Recording Industry keeps shooting itself in the foot by practicing Payola as well. We may not have another great artist like Prince, MJ, Led Zeppelin, etc.. for a long time until all this eats itself or gets sorted out.