You see over 20years we banned CFCs and pretty much the entire planet agreed with no fuss.

We can’t even convince 50% of western nations that climate change is caused by humans.

Hitting it on tik tok is just as “rare” as being signed by a label. If you’re only getting 200 listens you should probably reflect on your music. I’ve had piano jam solos pull thousands of listens.

Not sure why anyone is sucking on the dicks of labels, but hey be my guest.

You sound jaded, also Gen Z listen to more music than any other generation.

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Listen to more diverse music than any other generation. link

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Do you typically take one persons view and then preach it as gospel?

He is using an anecdotal event in his life to explain his opinion.

I’m not dismissing his opinion, he’s entitled to it. Music has been around for a Millenia, it will be around another Millenia as long there is humans to play and experience it.

I don’t see any negatives to the current evolution of the industry. I am all for seeing the end of rosters.

gen z are singing along to every hit on tiktok. It’s just being distributed in a new way.

No I don’t think it’s better, the focus on one artists popularity and suppression of access to the other millions of artists is not a reason to go back to the heavy gatekeeping of the industry.

Let’s also not forget even the period you’re taking about for every major like Bieber there were thousands of 1 hit wonders who went nowhere.

Like everything in life, holding onto what was a horrible system that endeavoured to destroy the artists they promoted for the sake of nostalgia is not the way forward.

Record labels were selling the artist on the idea of Fame, not buying them for their talent or music. Artists had their egos fed and bank accounts robbed.

People are also far more connected than ever before and people can find new artists with ease, the music industry does not need major artists, the music industry is evolving as people evolve and our connected world evolves and more unique artists create their own platform. The public is the arbitrator of the success.

The current system is on a much better projection for the artists than ever before. Now an artists can go viral on tiktok and distribute their music globally with no record label.

Because they ring fence and gate keep the industry. They built the system to ensure you get fucked and they get rich.

Now places like tiktok and social media are cutting them out the loop, if you hit it in tiktok and have released your own music through streaming services with no label you’re laughing.

Touring is still fucked, tickettek and others have deals with venues and gate keep access and ticket distribution.