>NOOOOOOOOOOO I WANT RADIOS TO PLAY ME BUSTA RHYMES AND BOYZ II MEN AS MY ONLY ACCESS TO MUSIC

>>127731142
Why? Because Fantano said so, zoomer?

>>127731233
>Fantano
Rent free
>Why?
Spotify and other algorithm based music platforms, by DESIGN promotes artists to conform to a singular genre than to make your own music.
Album-based listening was also killed by Spotify in favor of curated algorithmic playlists
ultra-mega 3rd party playlists such as "Vibes for study nights" and "Shoegaze vibes" allow you to pay for your music to get entry, this is often a way for smaller artists to get more recognition because in a sea of millions of artists it's very rare for the algorithm to suddenly pick you. But if you do not conform to what the playlist desires 100%, you will be rejected from entry. This way, to be recognized is to be conformative, when it should be the opposite.

>>127731311
>algorithm based
Imagine not just typing in what you want to listen to and listening to it

>>127731311
it's actually an issue of people having braindead npc-tastic music taste more than anything

I canceled my subscription when I found out who was invested in it

>>127731351
Yes, imagine. Sadly nobody else does it, which is why music was killed.
When people were forced to buy CDs and making mixtapes were harder, people were forced to listen to albums. But like electricity, normies take the path of least resistance. Listening to albums was simply the path of least resistance, once it got easier to make playlists/mixtapes, it turned out they actually really don't care about albums and just want background noise slop music.

Notice nobody ever mentions record labels doing shit to help artists anymore. The expectation has disappeared.

Musicians and fans used to rely on at least indie labels to inflluence the higher level music industry machine like radio play, song placement in TV and movies, arranging for cool tour lineups. Now it's just BLAME SPOTIFY FOR EVERYTHING 'cause that gets the kneejerk reaction from plebs on Instagram.

The whole conversation around getting good, unknown artists exposure to bigger and grateful audiences has been astroturfed into total retardation. Spotify has always been a dead end conversation about nuthin. Dumbest thing ever.

>>127731412
>The whole conversation around getting good, unknown artists exposure to bigger and grateful audiences has been astroturfed into total retardation
Because there is no way to get them better exposure. There's no way to separate the slop from the music actually worth listening to because thousands of songs come out everyday.
It'd take years to listen through a months worth of music and truly digest which one is good and which one is bad.

>>127731447
>Because there is no way to get them better exposure

You don't see how the entire conversation has been massaged conveniently into a type of socially-accepted learned helplessness and fatalistic outlook that gets repeated over and over? You realize the same shit has been said for years and years, and it's always dead in the water, right?

Indie labels + promoters (at the very least, some guy putting up photocopied flyers before shows) + small venues posting You're Not Gonna Wanna Miss This Tuesday Night Show Gonna Be A Doozy!! + the label/bookers arranging regional tours between bands that are mutually beneficial. Those are the pieces of the puzzle missing from the conversation. This is how it actually works if you just pretend Spotify doesn't exist for five minutes.

Yes the slop and enshittification is real. But It doesn't begin and end with Spotify. The Spotify playlist racket was a way to get ONE song to go viral. And very quickly after the playlist goldrush ended, you had musicians being honest after their 15 minutes of fame died down that it didn't help their career much at all, and if anything, it fucked with their sense of autonomy over their own music and demotivated them. Changed the way they wrote material from a broader approach to a more calculated, business savvy one in order replicate the success of that one playlisted song.

Everyone itt is right btw.

>>127731311
lol spotify revived plenty of obscure legacy indie bands, how is that a band thing

>>127734457
Because a band is a band, indie or otherwise