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Excellent post overall, and not just because you included a Mili track. But I don't think you justified this line with your post, although I think you successfully demonstrated that music is not suffering the same disease as other areas of the entertainment industry. More certainly, but better?
The fact that there is too much variety is part of the problem too. Artists would like to pretend otherwise, but popularity plays a vital role in the determination of quality art, because art that "stands the test of time" is art that resonates with a lot of people. That was a lot easier to produce back when a) there were only four channels and three studios to choose from and b) content creators weren't forced to jam propaganda into everything.
Take your comedy example - pretty good production and decent joke structure, but being a youtube clip it can never have the reach of the kind of comedy that we used to get. You can't have memes spawned from memes spawned from memes based on the gay dream accusation sketch, because it just doesn't have that cultural reach. Music doesn't suffer this problem because of genres, which are being stripped from visual media as both financial and social factors force creators to colour within increasingly rigid lines.
So while I agree it's not fair to say all our art sucks, and there is some excellent stuff out there if you can find it, I do think our culturally iconic art sucks. Or more appropriately, our cultural icons aren't art any longer - they are just products.
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