One can turn that around. There is a lot of good music and talented people around but the machinery around music media and distribution and life style is such t

One can turn that around. There is a lot of good music and talented people around but the machinery around music media and distribution and life style is such that most people end up listening the same few composers and artists world wide. So it might look that the composer or artist themselves are somehow unbelievably special. The talent shows for example have produced quite many popular artists here. One could see that as "see, anyone can be successful!". Or one can see that the machinery can choose which talented and hard working people they make "successful". The journalism around music is especially naive. They constantly mix up people, phenomena, music, promotion and popularity happily. People to a surprising degree like what they think they are supposed to like.