I read it with an eye to what got worse, since most things got better. The thing that truly leapt out to me was how awful pop music and the radio are today. There is good music, but nowhere near a radio. You really have to dig in obscure places for it. Pop is with very few exceptions loudness enhanced vapid junk that all sounds the same and that and oldies are all the radio will play.
Only a bit of actual inspired music has broken through in the past decade... basically m83 and a bit of decent hip hop. Compare this to the early 90s, the last time popular music was decent. There were literally dozens of amazing new bands and several whole new styles in a span of 5 years. That was I suppose before the marketers took over and figured out how to endlessly push junk.
I don't always cheer for disruption, but boy would I celebrate the total ruin of that industry. What a joke.
Only a bit of actual inspired music has broken through in the past decade... basically m83 and a bit of decent hip hop. Compare this to the early 90s, the last time popular music was decent. There were literally dozens of amazing new bands and several whole new styles in a span of 5 years. That was I suppose before the marketers took over and figured out how to endlessly push junk.
I don't always cheer for disruption, but boy would I celebrate the total ruin of that industry. What a joke.