<story><title>Record labels dig their own grave, and the shovel is called TikTok</title><url>https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/record-labels-dig-their-own-grave</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Coolerbythelake</author><text>Being a musician and audio engineer right now for 30 years, I see all this and I simply shake my head. I&amp;#x27;ve long given up the hopes of monetary success for my music. One thing that remains is the energy exchange between an artist and the audience in a live setting. If you love music and you are not an emotional robot you know what I am talking about. Software can&amp;#x27;t replicate that and the artistry in the performer knows how to heighten and transmit content in that moment. This act of creating and adapting to the feedback and pushing energy back and forth is the only reason I&amp;#x27;m still playing music. Computers don&amp;#x27;t do that. Tik tok doesn&amp;#x27;t do that in 30 seconds. Pop music has been reduced to the equivalent of taking a shit and a lot of people don&amp;#x27;t know it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>G4E</author><text>I love music and as far as I know, I&amp;#x27;m not a robot. However, I really dislike live events.
 Of courses, there are a lot if different set up, but we&amp;#x27;re talking small gigs in a local place.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t describe it other than &amp;quot;sensors overloads&amp;quot; (maybe I am a robot...). Too loud (the sound, but also the crowd). Too many peoples, too crowded. The smell of cheap beer, sweat, smoke... It&amp;#x27;s simply too much for me. I feel the urge to go far from that place, as quickly as possible.&lt;p&gt;I know your point was more about &amp;quot;a simple thing to support and enjoy your local artists&amp;quot;, but live events are&amp;#x27;nt for everybody sadly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Record labels dig their own grave, and the shovel is called TikTok</title><url>https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/record-labels-dig-their-own-grave</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Coolerbythelake</author><text>Being a musician and audio engineer right now for 30 years, I see all this and I simply shake my head. I&amp;#x27;ve long given up the hopes of monetary success for my music. One thing that remains is the energy exchange between an artist and the audience in a live setting. If you love music and you are not an emotional robot you know what I am talking about. Software can&amp;#x27;t replicate that and the artistry in the performer knows how to heighten and transmit content in that moment. This act of creating and adapting to the feedback and pushing energy back and forth is the only reason I&amp;#x27;m still playing music. Computers don&amp;#x27;t do that. Tik tok doesn&amp;#x27;t do that in 30 seconds. Pop music has been reduced to the equivalent of taking a shit and a lot of people don&amp;#x27;t know it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>popcorncowboy</author><text>&amp;gt; Pop music has been reduced to the equivalent of taking a shit and a lot of people don&amp;#x27;t know it.&lt;p&gt;This made me laugh pretty hard for a few minutes, I had tears in my eyes. Thank you.&lt;p&gt;Your humour is of course all the more pithy for exactly capturing the situation. Further, it applies everywhere that industrial-scale (internet-scale?) culture exists. Music, art, film, tv-shows, news, writing. We min-max everything at the altar of the algorithm, because... &amp;quot;reach&amp;quot;. Or something. Money. I don&amp;#x27;t know. Whatever. It&amp;#x27;s hard to care about taking a shit.</text></comment>