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I feel global political oppression or global wars usually produce great music but Macklemore might be the peak.

Nothing against him, some of his songs are good, but I expected real rage inducing stuff with everything going on. Or is this just the state of music as a whole?

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[โ€“] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

As with so many things, the barrier to entry has been lowered so far that literally anyone can have a go. And that's good. But it does mean that the vast, vast majority of art is now being experienced by an audience of maybe 20 people.

You can spend hours crafting a beautifully soundscaped podcast that truly gets to the heart of what you need to talk about. And ten people will listen to it.

But I suppose it was ever thus. Someone would spend a year painstakingly working on a painting, getting all the details just so. And then it would sit in their studio because they had nowhere to display it, or no one to buy it.