Long story short, it seems like music is evolving based on the challenges posed by TikTok and Spotify, and other streaming/sharing services. Like other commente

Long story short, it seems like music is evolving based on the challenges posed by TikTok and Spotify, and other streaming/sharing services. Like other commenters have written, this article also mentions that shortening songs isn't a new thing. What's new though is the nature of the pressures. Here's the spooky part for me: "If you go to a club and you watch people dance, they only dance to the 15 seconds of a song that’s famous on TikTok,” he says. “For the rest of it, they just sit there.” My mind is blown because I had been listening to a writer on a podcast claim that music is becoming more cerebral and less about moving the body (as in dance).