Has new music gone down the tubes?

@ghdprentice , a lot in common but just a different order of distraction... *G*

While "...love, love me do..." (No...) was making the girls giddy, I was into Coltrane, Pentangle, and the Fugs.  Overlaid with the Firesign Theatre to make some sort of sense of it all....

Older brother was listening to Mitch Miller and Herb Alpert. :- l

I go to the market of late and either marvel or grin at the latest in Muzak Muzic, aimed at the 'us', whoever we is and 'soap bubble' in the aisles....

Run Away to Mars -TALK came up when the 2B$ lotto was pending...which I thought would be a way to avoid the pending onslaught to the (un)lucky one, but not currently available as yet.

Drain Bamage....Audio Version: Love it, can't shake it.... ;)

Music on the radio has aways mostly been awful as have most movies. Decade after decade. We only remember what we liked and (thankfully) forget the crappy stuff.

Down the tubes or down the soild state, there is plenty of great new music in the folk/americana genre.

@thepigdog , that's a good one :)

Now you can't release new music unless it goes viral on TikTok first:

With each passing month, record labels grow more attached to TikTok—but it now looks more like addiction. Some have reached the point where they won’t release an album until the music goes viral on TikTok.

Consider the strange case of Trevor Daniel, who had more than one billion streams for his breakout hit “Falling.” The song climbed the chart in more than 20 countries. But now his label requires TikTok success before releasing a new record.

“It’s just been pretty much impossible to put out music,” he recently told Rolling Stone.

That’s dumbfounding. 

A 27-year-old with a billion streams can’t release new music? But he isn’t exaggerating. He keeps uploading snippets, waiting for one to go viral—but they don’t reach the threshold his label demands.