What do you guys think about Samsungs decision to discontinue the Messages app on Samsung devices and then urging users to move to Google Messages?
This is terrible for privacy, and even worse for users on Samsung devices.
Like, I could listen to a playlist of pop on “Discover Weekly” based on a fixed playlist, and not based on what one listens to.
I wish I could browse a list of genres to find a “Discover Weekly” playlist based on all genres of music that are available on Spotify, and not be limited to a “Discover Weekly” of it only being on what genres one listens to.
It could be a list of all genres, (under “Discover Weekly), and then people listen to what genres they like, instead of only having 5 genres on their “Discover Weekly”.
I don’t know if y’all understand what I mean. If you don’t, then you can ask on the comment section.
Music has become too safe and predictable. You know the concept of music is messed up when even advertisements may use heartbeat rhythms or ukulele music for their commercials.
I feel like music has gone from something novel, to something that the mainstream just takes for granted, and late stage capitalism reflects that. I feel like late stage capitalism destroyed what music could be, or become. It’s as if music was stripped of its fact that it is art, and then made to make money by the large corporations.
What’s represented in the media is too safe and not innovative. It’s as if consumers are dumbed down and told to consume and not question whatever they are listening to.
The quality and the representation of music has gone down so much.
Is this just a sense of just doomerism, or is this a verifiable phenomenon or fact?
Why is it that the music that reflects society, that society chooses, ended up being the dumbed down music, and not something complex or innovative? What happened to **art** itself of music?
(I know that there’s good music beyond the mainstream, so I’m talking about the mainstream).
Let me know what you guys think.