Yes, I saw this yesterday. We do seem to be in a sort of a no-name Era. For me, this became true when I could go to YouTube and listen to songs from almost anyone who has ever lived.

At my age, I have had a lot of time to be exposed to different styles of music. I suppose there are people who don't know who Bob Dylan is. I suppose there are people who have never listened to Hotel California.

What I find even stranger is LP aka Laura Pergolizzi had gotten 39,000,000 views on YouTube before I found out she existed and she had written songs for Celine Dion, Cher, Backstreet Boys, and Joe Walsh.

Then tonight I listened to "Despacito" for the first time. Number one pop song in all of history it has been said.

Go google the artist with the most views on YouTube. How many out of the top 10 have you ever listened to?

The amount of songs that now exist is so large that for me at least I don't think it is possible to define what sort of Era we may be in if any.

If any name could stand for the present perhaps it is AI. Not that AI has created anything of note musically yet. We are all talking about it and what it may do. How Ai has listened to everything there is.

Is this the Era of AI in music and AI in everything?

Billy

Last edited by Planobilly; 12/19/24 11:25 PM.
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