> You know what they won’t be doing? Any of the venues and sources you describe. And I get to hear a lot of their music. It's very clear they haven't heard a

> You know what they won’t be doing? Any of the venues and sources you describe. And I get to hear a lot of their music. It's very clear they haven't heard a wide range of music, and thus for the most part they make music within a tiny range of what is possible, and you get painfully conventional music. Being ignorant of the past doesn't make you a better musician. Not one song on the pop charts this year would have sounded particularly out of place in 1992. In 1970, the music on the charts would have sounded like alien voices to people in 1940.