In popular music (and I mean that extremely broadly, as in most music, that is being sold) there is an interesting thing going on. Listeners don't really wants

In popular music (and I mean that extremely broadly, as in most music, that is being sold) there is an interesting thing going on. Listeners don't really wants to know the truth. They don't really wants to know that Justin Bieber had nothing to do with the genesis of Sorry. They don't really want to know that most "live performance" videos were created in studios and filmed afterwards. Nobody is really interested in how music is made, because studio work is mostly draining, moving through the dark and an endurance test. Nobody wants raw and honest, because nobody even has any idea how that would sound. But everyone imagines they do. It's not even that information is well hidden. Everyone wants there to be a great story so much, that they are very happy to ignore the flimsiest of veils and just believe what they must. And the industry has always been happy to provide. It is the essence of stardom. I am fairly certain we are not going to notice of even care about how it was generated, as long as we can be made to love it, which will still require an entirely different set of skills.