Wonderful read! I’m British but live abroad where I’ve made friends with a lot of older Americans who would’ve been the KB demographic. I was shocked to learn that a lot of them had never even heard of Bush nor RUTH until this season of stranger things. I read that she was too quirky... weird for the American general public at the time. So i just thought it was cool that these catalogs are getting a second chance to grace the ears of a missed demographic which has only been possible due to the accessibility of music.
i’ve been thinking about this topic a lot recently, especially around Running Up That Hill and the ways that culture deals largely in nostalgia as fodder for trends, rather than a holistic look at the past. i can definitely see how the sheer volume of new music is overwhelming, and we increasingly consume it in every online experience we have--instagram, tiktok, etc. there are just so many ways to discover new music, and so much of it available to everyone, not just a&r execs, that you get choice paralysis. it feels significantly less stressful to explore someone’s discography on your own time, without worrying that the music is going to become less popular before you can catch the wave. really enjoyed reading your thoughts on this.
so interesting ! thx for your thoughts and reading ! Something I've been toying with and thinking about writing an article about is maybe having a "criterion collection" version of Spotify that is hyper curated and filled with context. Maybe it's a mode you can turn on to re-center context and history so not everything is just absorbed into the blob
ah that's interesting, it would be cool to have live/demo content stored in the same place as the streaming files as well, but definitely would have to kind of exist outside the traditional streaming service model, because it would require much more active listening.
Wonderful read! I’m British but live abroad where I’ve made friends with a lot of older Americans who would’ve been the KB demographic. I was shocked to learn that a lot of them had never even heard of Bush nor RUTH until this season of stranger things. I read that she was too quirky... weird for the American general public at the time. So i just thought it was cool that these catalogs are getting a second chance to grace the ears of a missed demographic which has only been possible due to the accessibility of music.
i’ve been thinking about this topic a lot recently, especially around Running Up That Hill and the ways that culture deals largely in nostalgia as fodder for trends, rather than a holistic look at the past. i can definitely see how the sheer volume of new music is overwhelming, and we increasingly consume it in every online experience we have--instagram, tiktok, etc. there are just so many ways to discover new music, and so much of it available to everyone, not just a&r execs, that you get choice paralysis. it feels significantly less stressful to explore someone’s discography on your own time, without worrying that the music is going to become less popular before you can catch the wave. really enjoyed reading your thoughts on this.
so interesting ! thx for your thoughts and reading ! Something I've been toying with and thinking about writing an article about is maybe having a "criterion collection" version of Spotify that is hyper curated and filled with context. Maybe it's a mode you can turn on to re-center context and history so not everything is just absorbed into the blob
ah that's interesting, it would be cool to have live/demo content stored in the same place as the streaming files as well, but definitely would have to kind of exist outside the traditional streaming service model, because it would require much more active listening.