Ya it’s all manufactured popularity. Pop and rap is produced by a very small group of producers which is why it also all sounds the same. These select guys make almost all music that’s marketed mainstream. They ARE the manufacturing facility.

It’s a very small selection of “good” chord progressions they choose from, add a baseline, add a controversial “front person” then fire it out to the mass marketing machine. It’s extremely cookie cutter and unoriginal, the only thing keeping it alive is a marketing machine.

If you rent one of these producers and rent their marketing machine, you’ll become CardiB. It’s not about music at all.

Pink Floyd sang about this 40 years ago with “Have a Cigar”. It’s never changed.

Ya it’s all manufactured popularity. Pop and rap is produced by a very small group of producers which is why it also all sounds the same. These select guys make almost all music that’s marketed mainstream. They ARE the manufacturing facility.

It’s a very small selection of “good” chord progressions they choose from, add a baseline, add a controversial “front person” then fire it out to the mass marketing machine. It’s extremely cookie cutter and unoriginal, the only thing keeping it alive is a marketing machine.

If you rent one of these producers and rent their marketing machine, you’ll become CardiB. It’s not about music at all