Well is it then the feeling of pop dystopia advancing?
what is 'it'? are you asking me why dont i like it? but ok, i dont think id express it in those terms but that is one of the things im talking about. what are the forces which make the music we hear sound the way it does.
Luke got through to me the other day about this, about how music - while omnipresent (there's more of it than ever before) - might seem less vitally important to people in general than it did before, when it required more engagement to listen to/make.
I think the omnipresence of the internet is important - and it makes me think about how people make 'content' for YouTube in a particular style. And how music is now presumably more 'targeted' than ever via platforms like Spotify.
not if it was about aesthetics, but I felt you were getting to something else, about what the music said about some more general state of things