There's a lot going on to kill new music. Competition for distribution is hard because yeah, every year since 1973 (when the more bass, more full range style of

There's a lot going on to kill new music. Competition for distribution is hard because yeah, every year since 1973 (when the more bass, more full range style of recording became the norm), the catalog of songs people love gets bigger. At the same time, there isn't the kind of universal distribution that existed prior to the late 90s where MTV and radio drive the playlist. Now Youtube, iTunes, and Spotify's music's algorithm drive discovery... Throw in all-inclusive subscriptions and I can listen to my favorites all the time... and not have to turn on the radio ever and hear anything new. So what do you do? One, pull a Weezer and release a lot of covers of favorites. Remake Toto's Africa... etc... Do this, you give up the composer's royalty but you sneak in the playlists. The other solution is to focus on an increasingly small market for new music which seems to be less and less appealing to the larger market or genres, but appeals more and more to people who like "new music". A lot of people are pointing out that a lot of new music is autotune or genre bending stuff that is kind of hard to love. Music has always been full of stuff made to ride a trend, or enabled by new instruments or new tech. It's the search spam of music. It catches on for a minute. Some of it sticks and becomes part of "the catalog".