This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
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I mean, they are half right. The music industry is eating itself. Back catalog is outperforming new releases year after year because new music is dead.
Hi! I'm a musician with new music that is not dead! Check it out: www.thassodar.com
Bonus: 99% of them are instrumental, and the ones that aren't don't have any actual lyrics and are only on SoundCloud.
New music is thriving. There is more music of almost every style and genre imaginable being released today than ever before. What's dead is traditional music distribution channels and marketing avenues like radio, and the popular means of promoting music now reward the most dogshit meme-able content. But if you seek out music yourself, the modern era is a paradise of incredible music; don't blame music itself for the failures of the industry to reward good within it.
New music is surviving. Of course it will survive. Music is an expression of our humanity.
Thriving? I think not. When was the last time you went to a bar and people just starting singing and playing folk music? When was the last time you even heard of that happening? Once it wasn't weird, it was normal.
Music is dead because it has been elevated to something that is performed by the few and consumed by the many, instead of something that we all live together.
"Haute cuisine is dead! When was the last time you walked into a restaurant and saw aspic on the menu? When was the last time you heard of somebody serving aspic? Once aspics weren't weird, they were the hottest fashion!"
^ That's you.
Trying to define the relevancy and lifeline of music as a whole based on the popularity of pub folk music is crazy.
More people are making music today than ever before, as barriers monetary, technological, and knowledge-based only continue to lower with time. I have no idea how you've managed to draw the opposite conclusion.
New music is doing fantastic, it's record companies that are dying. Most artists just self-publish these days.