i guess i am being choked by her and kpop but i dont even feel it.
no diss to her, she is talented but music today is all about silos. her tribe of young white girls are pretty much the only people into this. it aint like the old days when we all would hear some madonna songs even if we werent into that scene. only time im aware of stuff like this is during superbowl half time shows.
Yep. Musical and cultural tastes are much more insular than before. As a consumer, it’s much easier to listen to music that caters to your tastes, aesthetics and sensibilities and automatically ignore everything else. It’s a world of niches and YouTube/social media/internet killed the crossover mtv superstar. Artists can only be big in their musical lane and that’s it, outside of their core audience, no one cares and its nearly impossible for them to gain new fans and convert new/different people to their music.(Of course there are some exceptions, I'm talking about the new normal in the music industry now)They can only attract their crowd on some your vibes attract your tribe shyt. There is no fanbase overlap between Taylor swift and almost any rapper except maybe Drake. There is no fanbase crossover Between bro country singers and modern Jazz artists.
The dominant ubiquitousness of MTV between 1980-2010 allowed a general monoculture of music. Before the internet/social media/youtube/ modern video gaming era, everyone watched TV , it was maybe the only source of entertainment alongside with terrestial radio, back then TV had a wide and massive cultural and technological reach. Because of that, people were exposed to artists and musical genres they normally didn’t listen to. And as a result, a lot of people expanded their musical tastes/repertoire. Pure white bread cacs knew Mary J bilge, Bobby Brown, Puff Daddy, Mase and Jodeci were because they saw their videoclips while they were waiting for a Metallica, Green Day or Madonna song to come out. And through exposure, some cacs became fans of r&b, soul and hip-hop. Same thing for brehs/brehettes , black folks knew about Nirvana, Avril Lavigne, Garth brooks and Bon Jovi because of mtv exposure. That’s how we got some black generation x nirvana fans.
