> For the first time in 500 years, an increasing number of people listen to music, and don’t even know the name of the artist or the song Radio is what, 100?

> For the first time in 500 years, an increasing number of people listen to music, and don’t even know the name of the artist or the song Radio is what, 100? >The streaming platforms prefer a situation where fan loyalty is to their app, not the musician. Where’s this coming from? Havent listeners always been “loyal” to inevitable platforms? I don’t understand this decline in loyalty to fans. >Musicians only make pennies on new albums—or fractions of a penny—where previously they made dollars You mean back when people bought albums? Is it up to Spotify to compensate all these artists lost wages that were originally given by 100+ record companies? The entire foundation has been replaced, stop vilifying streaming platforms. > AI bad, grrr So much music, especially techno, sounds like it was made by AI anyway. Do guys like this ever stop and think maybe Pop music is easily emulated because it’s derivative? That maybe not everyone seems music as art? It’s going to happen no matter what “Tay Tay” has to say. Kids are going to be singing songs that only existed the second they pressed the play button, and that one kid will only know the lyrics, I think there’s some beauty in that. >Live music is in even worse shape—venues have never fully recovered from the pandemic People aren’t going to start seeing shows because “it’s the right thing to do”. That’s not something that will last. Read bowling alone, general community decline is a long standing topic. >The major record labels don’t care. They would rather buy up the rights to old songs than create new ones. Again, is this true? Are new artists no longer being signed to major labels? Can labels even make money off new artists? > Indie radio, music media, and other traditional supports of music culture are also in irreversible decline. I don’t really know what that means, but…ok? So much of these points are just weird opinions that the writer just assumes we agree with. Taylor is never going to read some academic blogger’s anti-corporate music rant. And even if she did, her fans are tweens. That force of children has no idea what you’re talking about. Write a letter to Neal Young and his fans. You’d have a better chance, they’d eat this crap with a spoon.