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Too Much Music: Streaming, Authenticity, and the Death of Radio
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Tommy Lee pivots from inspiration to diagnosis: the music landscape is drowning in content. He estimates Spotify releases around 300,000 songs per day and admits that even he, a professional musician, cannot keep up. The result is static — not discovery. But rather than pure pessimism, Tommy argues the opposite: 'The authentic stuff still fucking holds water big time.' Joe agrees, noting that undeniably great things still break through virally, but laments that radio no longer serves as the discovery engine it once was. In the '80s, a new Mötley Crüe single on the radio was an event. Now the mechanism is gone. They extend the parallel to Netflix: too many choices, 20-second attention spans, constant swiping. It's the same problem across all entertainment — infinite supply has broken the curation layer.
Spotify releases approximately 300,000 new songs every single day, creating so much musical static that even industry insiders can't keep up.
