Listening to these two tracks I think the point stands that music is struggling to escape the patterns laid down for it in the 20th century. This music is new w

Listening to these two tracks I think the point stands that music is struggling to escape the patterns laid down for it in the 20th century. This music is new without being novel, ie it’s not unreasonable to think they couldn’t have been made and been functionally identical in the 90s, whereas they couldn’t have been made in the 50s. You might dig these too, if you like those two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI8w-h-HCAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI8w-h-HCAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqnG_Ei35JE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqnG_Ei35JE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BUzRO6J4gE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BUzRO6J4gE The last one in particular by Joy Crookes isn’t from nowhere because it’s from South London, but it is weirdly from nowhen by being somehow contemporary with Amy Winehouse and Etta James. That’s what 21st century music is.