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This is hell.

Where all the coolest musicians get their news,

This is hell.

And for all of you musicians who are listening.

You will not be cool with what we will be talking about today because it turns out that one of your revenue streams you are increasingly dependent upon in the difficult world of

making a living as a musician.

Well, that revenue stream is a threat to the culture and meaning of music.

And that revenue stream is a threat to the culture and meaning of music, and that revenue stream is everyone's beloved streaming music. Yes, streaming music provides listeners with the soundtrack of our lives. And no, I'm not talking about the neo-psychedelia Swedish band that formed in 1995 and broke up in 2012.

For 10 to 15 bucks a month, you can enjoy music nonstop, music curated by real live human editors,

who somehow managed to pick exactly what you like and know what you will appreciate even before you ever hear it. But what if the music

you were listening to, unbeknownst to you, was not what you might consider, let's say real or

authentic music. One of the artists was completely made up with a fictitious bio online that at least seems believable.

And what if the music they make is, as one musician who creates this stuff, calls it

soulless. What if they were cheap rip-offs of popular songs all made as unchallenging as possible?

So the user of the platform doesn't even notice because it's so inoffensive.

They don't even notice it all sounds like something that just dissipates into ambient nothingness

in the background, just like the music production companies intended, who make this junk, this new

musac. It gets worse, because the music is not the musicians, but the production companies. The

musician makes even less for their work. And because it is so hard to make a living as a musician

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