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quote but applied to something else like music: Are you jaded about music? I've been listening to the radio for 20 years now and I feel like I've reached the p

quote but applied to something else like music: Are you jaded about music? I've been listening to the radio for 20 years now and I feel like I've reached the pinnacle of what music is about and have in a way reached the end of music. I've listened to just about everything you could want, and went to many concerts over the years, and I feel everything is just 'samey' now and follows the same pattern. It's hard for new music to stand out and be unique (at least for me). YMMV on this. -- I think this perspective is common and makes sense. Many of us feel it. I am not sure crypto/web3 is the solution. To bring web3/crypto into this analogy, is web3 a new way to decentralize record companies and put power into the "bands" rather than the corporations? If so, then it won't fix the problem. Centralization still finds great stuff and doesn't hinder creativitiy and bands from making music. It eventually finds them and helps change the landscape. However, if crypto is a new way to make music (app platform) with brand new instruments and new sounds.. then maybe it is the future that will take a long time. Artists are still in the basement trying to figure out how to operate these things and get them to make cool sounds

yowlingcat 5y ago
Great analogy. People often forget that the internet scene(s) (much like the music scene(s)) are a reflection of the people who participate in the tribe. All tribes wax and wane: exciting, rebellious and pure in their early days, bureaucratic and suffocating in their later days -- often giving way to a new generation of tribes which cannibalizes the mindshare they once cannibalized from previous dinosaurs. It's the circle of life, and technology accelerates but ultimately doesn't alter the very human incentives of the game. Perhaps that's my own being jaded speaking, though!
spurgu 5y ago
> I've been listening to the radio for 20 years now and I feel like I've reached the pinnacle of what music is about If you listen to the radio yes. But it's also objectively different. Music up until the 90's was 99% played by humans who had spent years mastering their instruments. There was something more "alive" even in basic pop music. Now you can just press a button and get 3 minutes of a repeating drum pattern and/or bass line. Granted there's a whole lot of complexity in making good pop music (or "machine music" in general), I'm not downplaying that, it's just very different to (in my mind) the more "personal" music (having to work creatively within the restrictions of the musicians/instruments as well as recording techniques) that came before the 90's. For example jazz is still going strong and constantly coming up with new exciting artists and music.

yowlingcat 5y ago

Great analogy. People often forget that the internet scene(s) (much like the music scene(s)) are a reflection of the people who participate in the tribe. All tribes wax and wane: exciting, rebellious and pure in their early days, bureaucratic and suffocating in their later days -- often giving way to a new generation of tribes which cannibalizes the mindshare they once cannibalized from previous dinosaurs. It's the circle of life, and technology accelerates but ultimately doesn't alter the very human incentives of the game. Perhaps that's my own being jaded speaking, though!

spurgu 5y ago

> I've been listening to the radio for 20 years now and I feel like I've reached the pinnacle of what music is about If you listen to the radio yes. But it's also objectively different. Music up until the 90's was 99% played by humans who had spent years mastering their instruments. There was something more "alive" even in basic pop music. Now you can just press a button and get 3 minutes of a repeating drum pattern and/or bass line. Granted there's a whole lot of complexity in making good pop music (or "machine music" in general), I'm not downplaying that, it's just very different to (in my mind) the more "personal" music (having to work creatively within the restrictions of the musicians/instruments as well as recording techniques) that came before the 90's. For example jazz is still going strong and constantly coming up with new exciting artists and music.