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Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I don't believe this will happen, and unless I'm mistaken, there's absolutely 0 evidence for it. People are usually attached to
by vlunkr 4y ago
Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I don't believe this will happen, and unless I'm mistaken, there's absolutely 0 evidence for it. People are usually attached to the artist when it comes to music. You buy a Bowie album because it has his name on it. You learn about them, look forward to their future work, maybe go see them live, etc.
Will computers replace EDM and elevator music? I don't know, maybe, who cares?
- HKH2 4y agoThe next generations will follow pseudo-Bowie, because David Bowie is for old people. edit: I'm imagining what they would say. I'm not here to offend Bowie fans.
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago> because David Bowie is for old people until it's new again, because young people of today are going to become old too and their kids are going to think tik tok hits are old, but will remember when their grandparents took them for a walk in the park listening to David Bowie.
- Joeboy 4y agoHonestly Bowie already seemed like an "old person" act when I became a fan in the '80s. When Live Aid happened in 1985, a popular take was that it was a bunch of old has-beens trying to revive their careers. Eg. Bowie, McCartney, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Elton John.
- pavo-etc 4y agoCounterpoint: Hatsune Miku
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoHatsune Miku was deliberately gamified as participatory marketing for creators, and is also representative of a specific culture. You can't generalise to pop in general, because being a pop headliner is as much about glamour, lifestyle, fashion, and branding as it is about music. No one wants an imaginary Bowie album, because it's a glamour-free proposition - a curiosity at best, most likely irrelevant. People have been trying to make an Idoru for decades for now, and they always fail. You can only sell fantasy and identification when they're implicit. When you try to attach them to an artificial marketing concept it becomes impossible to suspend disbelief and make the fantasy stick.
- edzillion 4y ago> No one wants an imaginary Bowie album, because it's a glamour-free proposition - a curiosity at best, most likely irrelevant. They're all going mad for an imaginary Abba concert
- lidavidm 4y agoEven when it comes to vocaloids like Miku, there's still attachment to the producer behind the song and not just Miku herself (and several producers have gone on from their vocaloid careers to launch "real" music careers).
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoNobody under 40 is buying any albums, at least not enough to matter. Physical music media is skewed towards the pre-Napster demographic. Bandcamp is nice but no one's getting rich off of it.
- dizhn 4y agoI read an article recently that claimed that for major genres most of the songs suggested by Spotify are from "fake artists". There are people making music for Spotify for a fee which allows Spotify to keep the cut that would otherwise go to a non-Spotify entry. It seems like the formula for an acceptable song is well understood. With the necessary push provided by Spotify these songs get streams in the millions easily. Perhaps it's cheap enough to have this music produced that they don't even have to move on to machine generation.
- neuralRiot 4y agoSo it’s not conincidence that 70% of the US music market is old music. People might be not so stupid as thought.