There has never been an independent superstar in the history of music idgi

You dont understand modern music. In the past, labels used to center one artist, but now a lot of subcultures have emerged, and algorithms have diverged, everyone listens to what they want.

Look at any SoundCloud era rapper. Look at Russ.

This is a bad bad thing.

Not a superstar.

on what planet is he a superstar

Im saying that in the past, it was impossible to become a superstar organically

You are wrong. Some conspiracy s***

I mean I guess, but if you look at actual superstars they’re all on major labels so this whole “organic” vs “inorganic” distinction for superstars doesn’t even exist

Depends on how define both superstar and independent if you rise independent you’ll likely get picked up at some point but any person can decide to start making music today and have access to every person on the planet without the help of a label which is the point being made. Prior to that there was an insane amount of gate keeping, streaming helped reduce that.

Why?

No, thats a good thing, now everyone listens to what they want to listen to. They dont have to listen only to things that reach physical stores or only whats playing on the radio/MTV.

Are you saying there is 0 gatekeeping in the music industry?

Streaming has conditioned listeners to see music as background content only. So that’s what is being made

Nothing memorable or challenging.

No incentive for young artists to make truly great s***. So no more stars.

There’s less now but there should be a s*** ton of gatekeeping. This ain’t for everybody.

Just tell me you are old

I’m old and love music.

Hard disagree, even if I think the music is ass there is probably somebody who will enjoy it

That’s where we differ

No they don’t. They listen to what the algorithm gives them. Eventually which will be all ai generated.

First time I smoked some weed, listened to the real her on YouTube but it was slowed to avoid copyright. I thought I was legit losing my mind and started slapping myself because someone told me it would help me sober up.
Good times..

Agree the incentives aren’t there but I think being able to find snd discover artist I might not of otherwise heard of is worth it. I don’t think there aren’t people doing they are just harder to find because the market is so saturated

Yes because as you said all this ass music can be created. And we have too much access.

Music doesnt need to be to be remembered for decades, its something you move on to the next lmao, and it's your fault for not listening to todays artists; theyre trying much more creative and different things. So many great albums come out every month.