In the 90s, the record labels colluded to buy the radio stations and only produce/promote a handful of singers/bands they could completely milk like disney is with Star Wars and Marvel, instead of gambling on new acts. The stagnation is completely because of this. They took a thriving cultural phenomenon and turned it into a form-letter money printer that ran out of ink 30 years ago.
Mind control is real. Studios discovered that if you play music to people over and over, they will learn to like it. Thus you can sell anything by saturating the airwaves. Then once it's run its course and sales taper off, they switch to the next set of "hit" songs. They're printing money at the cost of destroying culture and smothering any genuine competition.
Culture isn't being destroyed, but it certainly is struggling. There's good music out there but it's hard to find and no normie will every bring it up in talking.
The downward spiral began when the charts went from being decided by listener votes to being decided arbitrarily, which just meant decided by payments from record labels. This happened in the early 90s IIRC.
In the 90s, the record labels colluded to buy the radio stations and only produce/promote a handful of singers/bands they could completely milk like disney is with Star Wars and Marvel, instead of gambling on new acts. The stagnation is completely because of this. They took a thriving cultural phenomenon and turned it into a form-letter money printer that ran out of ink 30 years ago.
Mind control is real. Studios discovered that if you play music to people over and over, they will learn to like it. Thus you can sell anything by saturating the airwaves. Then once it's run its course and sales taper off, they switch to the next set of "hit" songs. They're printing money at the cost of destroying culture and smothering any genuine competition.
Culture can only be destroyed through absolute control like in China or North Korea.
There's only one thing a culture needs to survive: freedom.
Culture isn't being destroyed, but it certainly is struggling. There's good music out there but it's hard to find and no normie will every bring it up in talking.
That's fine. If you're into anything you should accept that you will disconnect from normies eventually.
The downward spiral began when the charts went from being decided by listener votes to being decided arbitrarily, which just meant decided by payments from record labels. This happened in the early 90s IIRC.