Note I said "popular" (commercial) music. There was a time where even commercial music had it's bright spots but not anymore. You have to dig deep now to find anything worth listening to.
I get what you're saying, to find any "good new stuff", yeah, it seems like I have to dig a lot harder than I did in my youth, although my tastes have changed too.
That clip I posted was inspired by a local PBS station that runs an eclectic mix of programming over the course of the week. It even turned me onto some modern bluegrass I never would've expected to like or even thought to look for, a while back.
I keep 4 PBS stations preset on my car radio now 'cause they seem to offer the best chances of hearing something new and unusual. College stations are a close runner-up.
That whole issue about the music business becoming "commercialized" has been aorund for at least 40 years now, and I'm thinknig it's kind of a circular logic argument.
I mean, of course it's commercial and homogenized and subject to fads just like any other pop culture phenomemon.
Do
we get kind of sick of the same old same old formulas after a while? Sure.
But it seems like more folks want to hang on to whatever made 'em happy in their youth, than want to be exposed to something
really different once in a while.
So we get "Classic Rock" stations and "Pure Country" (which these days means "Classic Garth Brooks").
Thank the lord for freedom of the airwaves so I can tune in somewhere else!!
