So there is a future then?
“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe... but not for us.”
Well, we are grown ups. Back in the 80s and the 90s and even the early 00s one could recycle that 'idiot teenage energy' into our mid-late 30s. Today we are 45 years old when we are 22. and I don't think this has as much to do with the instagram bubble as one may think. It's not really possible to sign onto the dole, put out some music and scrape a living bby. You need massive promo/advertising behind you, which is actually more expensive and labour intensive than the music. the naysayers are half-correct when they say it's no longer about the music (as a blind person I find the obsessive attention paid to videos as a surrogate cultural product to the music quite disheartening in this regard.) where they make the mistake is trying to envision a return to a romanticised model of the music industry.