Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: npub1zl8j5…apnyf I also think that if you dig enough you can actually find amazing ...
npub1zl8j5tfhnhmyyy438vkkmf8n8kfzueu9uwpn55yufslr7h7x4nrqzapnyf (npub1zl8…pnyf) I also think that if you dig enough you can actually find amazing music. The releases of Lana Del Rey, Spiritbox and Queens of the Stone Age have all blown my mind this year. But what gets to the surface is not necessarily what's objectively better.
Pitchfork has surely its faults, but it's not alone. Even the Grammies have 10 categories for R&B and rap and only 5 for rock+alternative+metal - and Olivia Rodrigo managed somehow to sneak even in those. And when I turn on the radio on any major channel I basically never hear any of the artists above - in the US I mainly hear cheap R&B and hip-hop, in Italy mostly local trap, and in the Netherlands it's mostly such bad autotune crap rapped on top of cheap hi-hat sounds that I struggle to even fit it into a genre. What all of these trends have in common is length - radios used to rarely stream anything that was more than 5 minutes long, now they barely stream anything that is more than 3 minutes long.
I'm no longer sure of how to disentangle this chicken-and-egg problem. Is it the public that has become spoiled by an endless selection of music at their fingertips and lobotomized by short content in the age of TikTok, or is it the media industry (and the journalists around it) that are trying to shovel crap into our throats, by repeating ad nauseam the same formulas, featuring the same handful of artists everywhere, and trying to convince us that this is the best that the music world can provide to us?
Pitchfork has surely its faults, but it's not alone. Even the Grammies have 10 categories for R&B and rap and only 5 for rock+alternative+metal - and Olivia Rodrigo managed somehow to sneak even in those. And when I turn on the radio on any major channel I basically never hear any of the artists above - in the US I mainly hear cheap R&B and hip-hop, in Italy mostly local trap, and in the Netherlands it's mostly such bad autotune crap rapped on top of cheap hi-hat sounds that I struggle to even fit it into a genre. What all of these trends have in common is length - radios used to rarely stream anything that was more than 5 minutes long, now they barely stream anything that is more than 3 minutes long.
I'm no longer sure of how to disentangle this chicken-and-egg problem. Is it the public that has become spoiled by an endless selection of music at their fingertips and lobotomized by short content in the age of TikTok, or is it the media industry (and the journalists around it) that are trying to shovel crap into our throats, by repeating ad nauseam the same formulas, featuring the same handful of artists everywhere, and trying to convince us that this is the best that the music world can provide to us?