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I discussed this with a friend pretty recently. I wondered whether I was getting "older" because I couldn't find anything I liked about the current rappy-pop or
by webworker 2y ago
I discussed this with a friend pretty recently. I wondered whether I was getting "older" because I couldn't find anything I liked about the current rappy-pop or soft, high-pitched chic-pop that you hear over loudspeakers at the grocery store, gym, etc. It's grating to listen to, majority of the stuff I can't even determine what the melody is supposed to be.
Then I realized that I'm listening to new alt/indie stuff that I didn't know about three years ago, and that it's probably not me. It's probably just that this mass-music for the masses is indeed awful.
- jethro_tell 2y agoAnd at the same time, publishing music has never been easier. There is so much good stuff out there but you aren't going to find it if your process for finding new music is letting the same guys that made top 40 with payola jam their same lowest common denominator shit down your through with algorithmically generated playlists.
- webworker 2y agoInteresting thing I found the other day: > In 2006 Slichter said that payola was how his band Semisonic turned their song "Closing Time" into a hit. Slichter stated: "It cost something close to $700,000 to $800,000 to get 'Closing Time' on the air."[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Slichter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Slichter Damn near a mil to push that song up the charts, in the 1990s, and it wasn't even a crap song. I think of that track as iconic of the late-90s, I was surprised they had to run payola at all.