I've been warning about this trend for awhile. The Nostalgia Industrial Complex in music (composed of major and "legacy labels", terrestrial radio conglomerates, and now streaming platforms and rightsholder-vehicles like Hipgnosis) have encroached on and enclosed so much cultural and media space away from new music that it struggles to even grow on the local/regional level . Channeling new music into a billion niche categories doesn't help either; it serves to dissipate any cultural synergy (a la San Francisco 1967-70) before it can develop. Now the disjointed nature of the modern music landscape and its expulsion to the margins of the entertainment business is coming home to roost in the sales numbers; and the NIC is trying to sell us "AI Beatles" songs. For any musician working today, it's unbelievably frustrating and discouraging.
I've been warning about this trend for awhile. The Nostalgia Industrial Complex in music (composed of major and "legacy labels", terrestrial radio conglomerates, and now streaming platforms and rightsholder-vehicles like Hipgnosis) have encroached on and enclosed so much cultural and media space away from new music that it struggles to even grow on the local/regional level . Channeling new music into a billion niche categories doesn't help either; it serves to dissipate any cultural synergy (a la San Francisco 1967-70) before it can develop. Now the disjointed nature of the modern music landscape and its expulsion to the margins of the entertainment business is coming home to roost in the sales numbers; and the NIC is trying to sell us "AI Beatles" songs. For any musician working today, it's unbelievably frustrating and discouraging.
Maybe we've just made all the good music now? Finished it?
LOL - "completed it mate" 🤣
That would be a bit darkly funny; if so many people didn't unironically believe it.