Very good article. Ted Goia has some of the best books on Jazz btw.
Play silly games, win silly prizes. Streaming music is a silly game and they won't even remember your name.
Bitcoin does not fix this. Sorry.
What fixes is people caring about music and actively support the community.
People over protocols.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/listeners-cant-remember-the-names
I recently asked a teenage dude to point me to some new music (I wanted to catch up with a trending hip hop artists) and turned out he listens to music all the time, but he couldn‘t name a single artist - he only listens to spotify playlists.
But I think it‘s a trend and young people will rediscover music as we know it at some point.
It's a trend for at least a generation I think. I don't blame gen Z actually, I think we set them up.
Social media, including nostr, encourages a feed of content that scrolls by and music becomes just content. Maybe not to someone who was used to something different, but if that's your introduction to it.
It's like people who think jazz is that stuff played in stores, or talked over.
I've also seen more gen z in record stores than millennials. So I like to think we are self correcting.
