Two sailant points to me: - With work from home, time spent with no one else around increases and it's never been easier to listen to ambient music. We see th

Two sailant points to me: - With work from home, time spent with no one else around increases and it's never been easier to listen to ambient music. We see this in the lofi youtube channels uprising, or the whole "work music" genre, but I think most people will listen to whatever they like that doesn't need to be fighting against the open space noise anymore. I'd expect music discovery to be strongly impacting by that. - The impact of technology and rhe new platforms is understated. What my generation could listen to at 14 is a ridiculous fraction of what we have access to now. The author poses it as "need to sit down for two hours to find new stuff" problem, but if you watch tv shows, listen to podcasts it will happen organically, and even browsing random channels or checking ranking charts (spotify's top 50 for instance) will gradually inject new things without that much active research. All in all, I think the current state of tastes getting frozen at some point is an artifact of the older generations, and might not affect people growing up now.