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New article is up.
This one breaks down what’s actually happened to the music industry over the last twenty years — not the PR version, not the nostalgia version, and not the fantasy version people keep repeating. The big industry didn’t stop discovering talent because talent disappeared. It stopped because discovery takes time, and time costs money, and nobody wants to justify instinct to a CFO who only trusts metrics. Meanwhile, the indie world built its own little kingdoms, radio collapsed into corporate sameness, Spotify flooded the ecosystem with noise, and AI made the whole thing even murkier.

If you’ve ever wondered why real breakthroughs feel so rare now — or why artists keep getting told to “build a following first” — this explains it. The gatekeepers didn’t vanish. They moved. And the only real discovery channels left are the people listening.

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The Big Industry Stopped Looking for Talent Because Talent Is Hard

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The music industry didn’t stop looking for talent because it suddenly lost interest in great artists. It stopped because talent takes time to identify, and time costs money. And when money has to b�...