He does have good points about practicing, but you could also argue in reverse: People idolized a handful of stars because that's all they had access to. If yo

He does have good points about practicing, but you could also argue in reverse: People idolized a handful of stars because that's all they had access to. If you turned on the radio on your daily commute, you would be subjected to the same two-dozen heavy rotation tracks that were nailed into your head with aggressiveness of a jackhammer, so that the labels can pump up the star and get their money back. No wonder the people - through repetition of the same limited stuff - have developed reflexes to treat those songs and their creators as the only greatest thing on earth (doesn't even matter that some of them were actually great). Music discovery was a complete torture and non-existent compared to today: you had to browse music store inventory for what you visually might like (nothing to do with music so far), then pay a relatively hefty price of like $10-$20 bucks, sometimes before you even had a chance to listen. Sure, you could do mixtapes and niche music scenes but that is like horse-and-buggy compared to today's cars, I can discover any music that has ever existed in several seconds now. There might be fewer cultural idols, but there is also just more stuff to listen to, so no need to truly idolize anyone in particular anymore? and if you have a passion for 10,000 hours of practice and performing, you can still do that, too.