Absolutely. We need artists to bring us cool new things to try, even if we don’t get it at first or it isn’t for us. Social media rewards artists for staying put and essentially taking orders from the algorithm. It’s some dystopian shit.
This is spot on. Especially the part about “falling in love with music”. I want to add something from my experience to it: As soon as you have just a tiny bit of success on social media, because you have been at the right place at the right time, you’re in danger to step into a trap: you start having your audience in mind and start asking yourself questions like “Will they like it? What do they want?” and slowly but steady you lose connection to what YOU love and start doing what THEY love. And then you become part of the machine.
Absolutely. We need artists to bring us cool new things to try, even if we don’t get it at first or it isn’t for us. Social media rewards artists for staying put and essentially taking orders from the algorithm. It’s some dystopian shit.
This is spot on. Especially the part about “falling in love with music”. I want to add something from my experience to it: As soon as you have just a tiny bit of success on social media, because you have been at the right place at the right time, you’re in danger to step into a trap: you start having your audience in mind and start asking yourself questions like “Will they like it? What do they want?” and slowly but steady you lose connection to what YOU love and start doing what THEY love. And then you become part of the machine.
happy to see Grado headphones in the photo, i’m wearing my 325X headphones right now. been a customer for 15 years.