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Oh my fucking god I just wanted to say how otherworldly bad music is right now (pop has always been stupid to varying levels but oh my fucking god they have raised the stakes). I just listened to a bunch of pop tracks from various genres and I literally think I'm about to die. Rock, country, indie, folk, hipster white rap, whatever you call home, is aggressively bad. It's like Walmart made a gun that can shoot cum and blood and piss and shit and puke into your soul. We are so fucking fucked. I want to saw my own head off.

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[โ€“] peppersky@hexbear.net 0 points 16 hours ago

I disagree. Sure, the internet might have given more people the ability to publish their music, but it has also cheapened the act of listening music to such a degree that any benefit that might have brought on has been completely eroded. "Back in the days" when people bought music, they actually were forced to engage with it, nowadays anything that might challenge listening conventions gets immediately skipped in favor of something else that more easily fits listening conventions. Streaming services obviously change listening behaviour and changed listening behaviour changes the music itself (as studies have proven). As more and more of human experience is viewed through the logic of the market, art is obviously going to suffer.