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My niece and I were talking about this. She's older and has heard all songs she grew up with countless times, even to the point where any nostalgic value has be
by RiverCrochet 2y ago
My niece and I were talking about this. She's older and has heard all songs she grew up with countless times, even to the point where any nostalgic value has been worn out. Many of those songs are in commercials, TikTok videos, etc. So easy access to the discography she grew up with is bland and uninteresting to her.
But weird, bizarre, interesting and novel stuff is all over YouTube, stuff with less than 50 views, stuff that isn't on Spotify. The same is true of SoundCloud and Bandcamp, and you even have the occasional mp3 shared on Discord by musicmakers that didn't bother to put it on any type of service. So she's all about the music library, because there is no way to know when that truly unique and meaningful stuff will disappear.
I'm desperately trying to get her to understand what she is doing is wrong, and I hope to succeed in setting her on the right path someday. Because there are plenty of legal avenues now, and an artist or company pulling their tracks from a service without warning is simply something we should all live with.