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I have a theory around this. Short version: Music is no longer the center of popular culture. Longer version: the 60s/70s/80s saw a technical revolution in pr

I have a theory around this. Short version: Music is no longer the center of popular culture. Longer version: the 60s/70s/80s saw a technical revolution in producing and distributing music. Each year, new and even more amazing things were possible, and a steady stream of geniuses came in and produced groundbreaking masterpieces using the new tech. It changed the world, and the world loved it. But now, that's all pretty much done, and the exciting things are happening elsewhere. You can see similar cycles earlier in history when novels or films were where new amazing things constantly captured the world's imagination. What's the current "thing"? Computer games, internet stuff, maybe streaming TV.

mongol 4y ago
Short clips as TikTok
- est31 4y ago
  Which ironically contain music. Often it's TikTok specific remixes of famous older songs. But does that mean that culture still revolves around music?
- winternett 4y ago
  Short clips have trivialized the value of music. If you go on TikTok, the same songs rotate very very frequently because TikTok pre-designates what trends. Only a handful of music artists are added at a time to the cue, and everything else (the independent (and often far more desirable/creative/undiscovered music) often languishes with little to no views in virtual storage there. TikTok is a smokescreen for major music label influence based on my observation, and boy is it tediously repetitive, even when you click the "I don't want to see this again" button.
dougmwne 4y ago
Vr. AI assisted art.
Tade0 4y ago
I consider the use of auto-tune in Cher's "Believe"(1998) the very last example of technological innovation in music.
seydor 4y ago
The current "thing" (which is gaming/virtual) contains cinema/tv and music, but does not replace them, in the same way that cinema did not kill music. The current "theme" however, is attention deficit. Artists dread the skip button or the scroll down and this has an effect in the type of music they make. If the Pink Floyd were releasing today, Shine On would not be 9 parts but 2 , a drum machine would roll after a few seconds, and white noise would be added to fill in the spectrum. It's a race for ears more than a demand to be heard

mongol 4y ago

Short clips as TikTok

est31 4y ago
Which ironically contain music. Often it's TikTok specific remixes of famous older songs. But does that mean that culture still revolves around music?
winternett 4y ago
Short clips have trivialized the value of music. If you go on TikTok, the same songs rotate very very frequently because TikTok pre-designates what trends. Only a handful of music artists are added at a time to the cue, and everything else (the independent (and often far more desirable/creative/undiscovered music) often languishes with little to no views in virtual storage there. TikTok is a smokescreen for major music label influence based on my observation, and boy is it tediously repetitive, even when you click the "I don't want to see this again" button.

dougmwne 4y ago

Vr. AI assisted art.

Tade0 4y ago

I consider the use of auto-tune in Cher's "Believe"(1998) the very last example of technological innovation in music.

seydor 4y ago

The current "thing" (which is gaming/virtual) contains cinema/tv and music, but does not replace them, in the same way that cinema did not kill music. The current "theme" however, is attention deficit. Artists dread the skip button or the scroll down and this has an effect in the type of music they make. If the Pink Floyd were releasing today, Shine On would not be 9 parts but 2 , a drum machine would roll after a few seconds, and white noise would be added to fill in the spectrum. It's a race for ears more than a demand to be heard