Rick Beato making clear what is happening on the music scene just as Cory Doctorow or Adam Conover talk about the Internet. Please remember to use frontends like Grayjay, NewPipe, Freetube or invidio.us to watch videos like these.
Rick Beato making clear what is happening on the music scene just as Cory Doctorow or Adam Conover talk about the Internet. Please remember to use frontends like Grayjay, NewPipe, Freetube or invidio.us to watch videos like these.
There’s a pretty clear airplay shift in the US that starts happening beginning around 1986 where music played on the radio and tv starts changing to manufactured lowest corporate denominator. Milli Vanilli is a prime example. There are still spurts of independent music that happen after this, like the grunge movement — but they get fewer and farther between as we get closer to the present. MTV starts to die as it shifts from a creative free for all to focusing on endless boy bands hyped on TRL. Saturday Night Live starts letting musical acts lip sync. Etc. Etc. It’s not just the pop charts either — country music starts getting extremely derivative/repetitive. It’s like the industry returns to the pre-Elvis 1950s when payola was king. The consolidation of terrestrial radio stations into a handful of national conglomerates also doesn’t help.