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Message: [QUOTE="Parasite_Steve, post: 83759, member: 5378"] I feel this position is gonna be relatively popular after all, but I find modern mainstream pop music to be utterly devoid of substance and ideas. I’m specifically writing "modern mainstream" because there has always been great pop music. I don’t view it as a bad thing. What irks me about it so much is that it low key has total contempt for its audience, thinking they only want to consume the same slop over and over again, whereas history has shown us that creative and even challenging music can be lastingly popular and successful. Whenever mainstream pop these days is experimenting a bit with a different sound it’s usually a style they ripped off from an indie artist that will go uncredited and will continue to live on instant ramen until the day they have to give up music for financial reasons. Other than the quality of the music itself the whole pop world eco system is just insanely toxic and predatory. I can’t defend it in any way. There’s a myriad of deep problems with AI "art". Not least of which is the environmental impact the software has. It’s basically just a plagiarism machine that spits out junk and takes away the livelihood of countless talented artists, especially entry level jobs in the creative industry. We’ll feel this and we’ll feel this hard just as consumers. This is a terrible development for culture as a whole. [/QUOTE]

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