"Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking."

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    It’s not even subtle anymore, nothing new is actually being invented.

    People have been complaining about this for millennia.

    If you want "new music" figure out a way to do a song with the Blockchain. Past that, what are you complaining about, exactly? That nobody is inventing new physical hardware for making noises in the register the human ear finds appealing? That nobody is stringing a unique set of words together to express the idea of two people meeting each other, falling in love, fucking, growing apart, breaking up, feeling lonely, and then meeting new people again?

    There is plenty of "new" music out there. Soundcloud and Bandcamp are rife with it. Some of it is even outside mainstream. You're not going to find it on the FM, but why the fuck would you ever go to an FM radio station for new music anyway?