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> most Western culture still lauds virtuosity playing and "skill" over most other things. We must be in different Western cultures because I definitely don't s

• CharlesW 4y ago
  > We must be in different Western cultures because I definitely don't see a lot of skill and virtuosity in most popular music. I think it depends on the lens you use. If you're looking through a "Tom Scholz" lens, that kind of skill and instrumental virtuosity may not exist today (although artists like St. Vincent are an argument that they do). But tech has completely changed music making, production, and distribution since that time, so today's Toms are people like Finneas O'Connell, and making music today is more akin to software design and engineering.