>> Yeah, let me sit down and listen to Cardi B for the next 40 minutes, said no one.
> That seems very reductive.
It seems, but it isn't. Music is produced for the YouTube/Spotify "formats" these days. Putting together an album that would be listened on a turntable or a cassette player, is a very different task than releasing a Spotify single.
As an analogy, modern artists are more like weekly columnists on a magazine. Past artists were more like book writers. Both categories write, but their output is very much affected by the format they use. And a columnist is very likely to be bad as a book writer, and vice-versa for the book writer.
> That seems very reductive.
It seems, but it isn't. Music is produced for the YouTube/Spotify "formats" these days. Putting together an album that would be listened on a turntable or a cassette player, is a very different task than releasing a Spotify single.
As an analogy, modern artists are more like weekly columnists on a magazine. Past artists were more like book writers. Both categories write, but their output is very much affected by the format they use. And a columnist is very likely to be bad as a book writer, and vice-versa for the book writer.