Don't you think the issue begins with wanting to achieve global success? It seems like a Catch-22: To achieve professional success, one needs to be popular enou

Don't you think the issue begins with wanting to achieve global success? It seems like a Catch-22: To achieve professional success, one needs to be popular enough to capture a sufficiently large, paying audience while simultaneously be unique enough to push against the boundaries of mainstream taste. Few people listen to music to be "challenged" unless they're musicians. If anything, I'd say there's more diversity in music then there's ever been. So much so, that we develop complicated tools to find such music.