Musicians need to give out free cassettes for postcards. It's the only way.

Interesting, but generalizes the results of a study on all listeners and ignores MTV, record labels, and mockingbird's narcissistic influence to drive the article's narrative. People use social hierarchies that surround authentic culture opportunistically. Solution is to focus on the authentic art and those who make it from pure human expression and self reflection, while allowing those with mature taste to have equal footing with those who have world class talent - rather than boosting and venerating charismatic 'leaders' who can normalize the perverse antisocial behavior of power seekers.

As leader of the cassette cabal I support this message.

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.