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Music being easier to both create and consume hasn’t made it worse. Thinking about why it would for more than about 5 seconds makes this obvious - there is no l

by avazhi 2y ago

Music being easier to both create and consume hasn’t made it worse. Thinking about why it would for more than about 5 seconds makes this obvious - there is no logical causal link. If anything, logically a lower barrier to entry means more creativity by more people, and invariably some of those people will be very good. It sounds like the author just hasn’t figured out how to find good music in the current ecosystem. In other words, skill issue.

piva00 2y ago
Exactly what I have commented on some of Beato's diatribes. He's so fixated in finding good music on what's popular that he misses that ship has sailed, popular music is supposed to be popular, not great, and as in every endeavour when you cater for a bigger audience you have to shed some of your uniqueness, and weirdness, to be palatable and approachable to be consumed by more people. There's an absurd amount of great music being made, they're just coming from smaller acts/artists. Those have managed to attract a following around the world through the internet. In the before-times those artists would struggle a lot to find an audience for their niche in local areas, and wouldn't be able to jump-start a career. They would hit dead-ends unless they lived in very specific areas which could foster a forward looking music scene, that scene is now spread all across the globe. I agree it's a skill issue, as well as a "keeping with the times" issue, Billboard Top 100 doesn't matter anymore for finding great music, to my taste in music it's actually an anti-signal. It takes as much skill nowadays to find good music as it took by scavenging through vinyl crates at music stores before, it takes knowing people sharing similar taste and who are great at finding tunes to break through the noise.

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Music being easier to both create and consume hasn’t made it worse. Thinking about why it would for more than about 5 seconds makes this obvious - there is no l

by avazhi 2y ago

piva00 2y ago
Exactly what I have commented on some of Beato's diatribes. He's so fixated in finding good music on what's popular that he misses that ship has sailed, popular music is supposed to be popular, not great, and as in every endeavour when you cater for a bigger audience you have to shed some of your uniqueness, and weirdness, to be palatable and approachable to be consumed by more people. There's an absurd amount of great music being made, they're just coming from smaller acts/artists. Those have managed to attract a following around the world through the internet. In the before-times those artists would struggle a lot to find an audience for their niche in local areas, and wouldn't be able to jump-start a career. They would hit dead-ends unless they lived in very specific areas which could foster a forward looking music scene, that scene is now spread all across the globe. I agree it's a skill issue, as well as a "keeping with the times" issue, Billboard Top 100 doesn't matter anymore for finding great music, to my taste in music it's actually an anti-signal. It takes as much skill nowadays to find good music as it took by scavenging through vinyl crates at music stores before, it takes knowing people sharing similar taste and who are great at finding tunes to break through the noise.