Sound Stories
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Sound Stories
Is music getting dumber?
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Every generation thinks music is getting worse. Every generation is wrong， and also a little bit right.
The data is real, lyrics have gotten simpler, songs have gotten shorter, and Spotify's algorithm has been quietly flattening every genre into the same digestible mush since 2015. But nobody is saying the music isn't the problem, the room is gone, and the shared moment is gone. You can't recreate what it felt like to hear a Jay Chou song for the first time when everyone you knew heard it at the exact same time, on the same radio, in the same era.
This episode is about what we actually lose when music becomes fully personal. And whether the machine that makes it is killing the thing we love about it.
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