Grammys. Taylor won album of the year, only person to do it 4x. Didn't hear any of the songs though throughout the year I don't think. Some hip hop artists gratuitously grandstanded. Not one good song. Not even one. I guess if you make it about not music (but rather looks, news, virality) after a few years you don't get music anymore. They also neutered rockstars with laws and politics (mostly laws I'd guess), so no one even wants to become a rockstar anymore, and there's no avenue to it because everyting is consumed before it ever gets to a completed stage. Will this era be like the 10s and 20s. We don't remember any songs from then. When we hear one, it's unappealing. What finally came out of all that was jazz (and blues but blues seems to have been a smaller, undergroundish alternative trend. It wasn't until the 50s and really the 60s when music we think of as good was made again.
Is it that conditions would somehow have to turn to 1. make it possible to be bad and a rockstar, have people shun/no access to devouring tools like socialmedia, and perhaps a new instrument type. Perhaps our era continues in its dismal trend, increasing repression and conformity and not permitting being ‘bad’ (not permitting in a serious way) for decades, and then maybe a war or not (which would create relief of population and increased freedom and cheapness of things/property/jobs and remind people of sweeter things, and their children perhaps will agian be comfortable and rebel en masse.
If You Can Choose Your Gender Can You Choose Your Race? - YouTubeSan Francisco ramps up nighttime enforcement at UN Plaza - YouTube2024 Festivals Are Not Selling Well - YouTube‘The year of the underwhelming festival headliner.’
Relying on classic artists from 80s, 90s, 2000s.
‘Banking on nostalgia.’
Next Cochella is headlined by Lana, TylerTC, Doja, ‘and No Doubt.’
People saying the lineups are made by AI or something because there's no coherence. Just TikTok random mixup.
Maybe labels are getting involved, saying if you want our artist we want ‘this much.’
I wonder if this will also happen with travel. Travel will run out of good locations since they're all pretty played out now, and culture in many places is just bland-WesternHollywoodMovie-ized.
It only takes one really bad turn out to make a company not get returns and they might not be able to continue.
A dumb phone in Europe might be called a ‘weekend phone.’ Making choices about what parts of technology contribute to better quality of life.
Inflation, crime, etc is a choice. You don't have to have them. It's a policy choice. It's saying yes or no. Grafitti, filth in Paris. Tucker. America used to have nice cities like other world cities.