i personally think the mainstream will die and the power will be up to the fans who they gravitate towards, because labels aren't willing to develop artists anymore and have been pushing this microwave music thing and people clearly want something more substantial.

welcome to hell maccy, hope you enjoy it

Do not argue with people who think physical media is worthless.

physical media will never die.

Funko Pops sold a lot too. Vinyls are at least decorative I'll give you that. Still pointless collect em all s***. Entire bookshelf fits on a thumb drive

You need a phone to survive at all and even if you didn't it makes life a hell of a lot easier. Your phone already grants you access to infinity music.

For a century every town in America had a person who saw a movie on Saturday and published their 500 word review in the newspaper on Monday. It wasn't until media consolidation and the French that we pretended you needed a degree and to work in the World Trade Center. At least that was to talk about Bertolucci. Pitchfork did that to confer prestige unto Kid P**** and Ashley Popstar. For Conde Nast lol

I wish them well on substack and with their new podcast.

one visit to any other rym or lbx review cesspools and you'll never wanna go there again unless its professional journalists reposting their articles there

"Professional journalists"

Professor Skye and Fantano ate their lunch. A divorced academic and a political science major

Talking about these people like they're infiltrating Gaza to do war reporting. They listen to the new Bad Bunny and say some s*** like "the album is a journey akin to opening a russian nesting doll, broader appeal concealing granular intimacy".

skye is niche and really isnt that great at breaking down musical aspects of albums/artists but rather topics and themes

still better than dumb one-liners or totally whacked out cultural essays from random idiots

Cus there’s no good music

i can’t imagine ever wanting to hear a white person’s opinion on latin music

I'm in favor of killing the entertainment industry, if it means teachers, Healthcare providers that aren't top nurses or doctors or other necessary professions, get a real bump in pay. Those resources have to go somewhere if the industry dies, and I wanna see it go to essential jobs.

Anyways, since this is music section, hell yeah music is dying, especially rap. Music has never felt so unimportant and unimaginative as it does now. And with the industry flooded with copycats, why should anyone be getting paid like that? Motherfuckers shelflife nowadays is literally a yr or less, if you make 2 yrs, your an overachiever.

Streaming centralized artist and labels in the worst way possible. New artist don't even have an idea of how to drop an album properly, cause its just a digital file on a hard drive, just more music to release. And specifically Hip Hop, the genre has caved in on itself. Hip Hop at this point is pretty much a dirty w**** that wants to keep going, but can't, she's eventually gonna croak.

skye can be cool, but he goes overboard way too many times lol

You are 100% right on this

I don't think people realise how low the bar for journalism in internet era really is

I'm not saying that there aren't any good ones but unfortunately they are a minority, and rarely given much of an opportunity to write decent articles

People are still looking for music criticism it's just on different mediums now

isn’t it funny how the art of crafting and sequencing an album is dying when it’s literally one of the most important factors in determining an artist’s legacy lol

i would welcome a music industry reset 100%. it’s too late to save so we might as well start from the ground up again

I will still be listening to music next year.

You're in a real emperor's new clothes situation because you have to compare people with unique styles and personality and presence to a revolving cubical in a skyscraper.

It genuinely is cause crafting, mastering and sequencing is what makes an album a production in the first place, vs a bunch of music in a file. There hasn't been any real productions in music lately besides Beyonce, Taylor and Kendricks last album, Drake hasn't done a real production since probably Scorpion imo.

But everyones album is suppose to be a production, but labels just sign everyone and their mom and let them sink or swim. Their hasn't been a truly interesting debut album in ages, that just wasn't a compilation of music smh.

best case scenario is that u got a small group of huge artists and their stans at the top (comercially speaking) and everything else gets a lot more atomised into little communities and critics and shows in more moderately sized venues. would not be a terrible outcome tbh.

We already knew your ass don’t read

ktt2.com/akademiks-has-a-live-trial-for-his-child-groping-homie-lil-boom-32565269

it’s almost like we’re going back to the early days of the music industry where it was a singles driven market…was the album era just a short blip then?