>>8488279i think his point is that the popularity of music doesn't reflect the population's interests as much anymore.
Thanks to the internet allowing to cater to our very specific interests, we may never ever hear a top 100 billboard song, muchless know the name of artists. Despite listening to the same genre of music, rap, metal, or pop, these "hot" artists may never appear on your playlists. Even when they do appear on your streaming service, you don't even bother to look who or what it was that you just skipped.
We may never have artists that permeate our social collective like the Beatles or even Lisa Loeb anymore, because just listening to music itself isn't how these artists became widely renown. Artists like them, Elvis and the Bangles appeared on network television and/or cable tv that tens of millions of people watched. Most young people nowadays don't watch talk shows, variety shows, or MTV's Total Request Live. Hugely popular youtubers that gets tens of million viewers like Puedy Pie don't host musicians, does he?
Personally, i stopped giving a shit about channels like VH1 and MTV long ago in the early 00s. Only places i heard new music was on talk shows like David Letterman, Conan, and on Pandora over a decade ago. Then in the early 10s, it was strictly Pandora and music suggestions filtered by internet forums. Youtube was a joke back then compared to Pandora. Once Pandora started having shit quality, i went to just youtube and 4chan (not /mu/, because music suggestions are try hards trying to show how unique their tastes are), with a little Soundhound to search a song that randomly pops up when I'm out.
Thanks to people trying to be funny on /tg/, /wsg/, /k/ and /co/ i've found a ton of great music and artists.
