The modern music scene produces a strange sensation.
The modern music scene produces a strange sensation. There is noise. There is visibility. Awards, charts, covers, top-10s, top-100s, endless playlists filled with the same faces and the same intonations. What is missing is the feeling of talent. Or rather, it appears accidentally, for a brief moment, and then dissolves into the background. At times it feels as if a large portion of the artists standing on today’s pedestal did not get there because their music demanded it, but because circumstances happened to align. An algorithm. A lucky release window. One track that suddenly “took off.” And that was enough. Enough to label someone a genius without ever looking at the rest of the catalog.
The issue is not that an artist might have one strong song. That has always existed. The issue is that today this single success is treated as a justification for ignoring the remaining ninety-eight percent of the material. And there, very often, is emptiness.
