A huge problem is spotify. It degenerates art a lot.

Music must be simple and interesting within the first 3 seconds, otherwise people will not listen to it anymore and on spotify artists get payed if the listener is there for a specific amount of time, which leads to bad music and to everything sounds the same, because most humans are pretty undercomplex or even conservative. Doing something new or what is not mainstream could scare away potential listeners and you could loose money.

This wasn't the case back then when artists (or their labels) got supported directly by buying their records. They don't have to fit their music to masses and they could even create music in genres you've never heard before. Nowadays no one will even find your music if you do such "experiments", trying to do real art, which is not optimized to spotify or any other similar algorithm.

MattKC wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:55 am I'd say I generally disagree, not in the sense that I really like today's music, but in the sense that every generation has hated the music of the generations younger than them

This might be a reason too, because I don't even define todays music as music anymore (am I getting old?). If someone is just talking off beat (not even singing) filtered by auto-tune not even understanding the words because the filter is turned on max, how can it be music? It's like going to a discotheque with a friend who had a bad day, but who is trying to talk to you while loud music is playing. Record this with your smartphone and use auto-tune and you have a new masterpiece by todays standards.

I think the factor that huge tech companies forcing artist not to do art like they want but how it is optimized to keep people on spotify or any other platform, just to consume, is a bad development no matter what older people think of the music itself.