> “the overreliance on similar tools” brings about “a lack of diversity” > making any sound theoretically possible at virtually no cost > “music is not as val

> “the overreliance on similar tools” brings about “a lack of diversity” > making any sound theoretically possible at virtually no cost > “music is not as valued by young people. There is no sweat equity put into obtaining it, having it be part of your collection, having it be a part of your identity, of who you are.” > The ease of creation has caused “an oversaturation of music, making it harder to find really exceptional things.” > Music, in short, has become both too easy to produce and too easy to consume. So breaking it down: - everything sounds the same because it's all made with the same technology - the technology that everyone is dependent on is capable of producing anything you can imagine - nobody works hard enough to make music - there's too much music - finding good music is too hard - nobody works hard enough to find good music > It would be easy for anyone ... to dismiss Beato’s argument as that of a middle-aged man reflexively insisting that things were better in his day, when we knew the value of an album.