A Prisoner of the Platform – How Music’s Evolution Has Been Stunted By Tech
The other day I put on music at the gym that was predominantly rock from the late ‘90s to mid ’00s. While listening to classic offerings from Offspring, AFI, Fall Out Boy, and Lit, I commented to a buddy that not much has changed since then, which is kind of sad. I thought back to my youth, and listening to the oldies station with my parents, which was playing ‘60s music in the late ‘80s / early ‘90s. The strides made in music over that particular 25 year span were enormous. From 1965 to 1990 we went from The Beatles, and the explosion of rock n roll, to rock splintering off into a plethora of genres, including punk, and metal. We experienced the incredible soul music of the ‘70s, as well as the birth of disco, new wave, and hip-hop. Heck, push it one more year to 1991, and we have Nirvana, and grunge taking over the world. What kind of advances in music have been made over the past 25 years? Unfortunately, the answer to that is few, and far between. New genres of music aren’t being c...
