#music
The poptimist ideology succeeded because it made compelling points about why it was unfair to castigate selling out:
- Artists deserve to make a livelihood : With music sales down after Napster, musicians needed to supplement their income with commercial sponsorship
- Artists from marginalized communities tend to work in commercially-oriented genres: I
Culture: An Owner's Manual • The Age of the Double Sell-Out
Jorge Drexler - Eco
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Anti algorithm music discovery
It was their biggest album. But did ‘Synchronicity’ kill the Police?
washingtonpost.comJohn Mayer and Mickey Hart of Dead & Company Talk About Their Big, Strange Sphere Trip—and the Future of the Band
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