music

Each new microgenre is basically just another way to find a path through music’s capitalism.

This study identifies 33 as the tipping point for sonic stagnation , an age where artistic taste calcifies, increasingly deviating from contemporary works. But wait, there's more. Spotify data indicates that parents stray from the mainstream at an accelerated rate compared to empty nesters—a sort of "parent tax" on one's cultural relevancy.

Music was effort.​ It was physical. It was tangible. It was communal.