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Why I Do Nothing While I Listen to (new) Music. Also Why TF Did Last.FM Fall Off The Interwebz Radar?
The value of doing nothing while listening to new music is underrated
Many times, I’ve put on the same playlist over and over again just for the sake of background noise. Something to fill the air, much like how my mother has the habit since my childhood to keep the news on or random old films playing while she goes about her day. Too often I’ve depended on familiar music to be something like a friend when no one else was around. These friends have memories attached to them. When I am feeling nostalgic, I throw on some HIM, despite the relative immaturity and superficiality of their lyrics.
I don’t entirely blame people for being bored of music. I find people are not particularly as zealous as they once were over artists. Moreover, who becomes a rockstar anymore? Artists get popular, but often with the help of the usually arbitrary luck of search engine suggestions. Scouting out talent is no longer driven from producer to artist; artists can intelligently leverage the internet and SEO to acquire a fanbase, (which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it just entails I have to sift through so much more content to find quality).
