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> Music is typically a passive form of media That is only true of the past 20 years or so of the music industry's history. I would sit and listen to music on my own, or with friends in a non-passive setting - every day as a kid. That was only 15 years ago. Tell a musician in an orchestra that music is only listend to passively. It's so unbelievably offensive to the art, and so remarkably untrue. > You can listen to m…
I never said music was only listened to passively, "typically" was what I aforementioned. Typically we are driving to work, working out, cooking while listening to music. It's not too often we are at venues where it is indeed an active activity. Kids are probably listening to just as much music (I have younger siblings in grade school, n=2) but they're also more pre-occupied nowadays with other activities while consu…
Re: Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers
#261Obviously, if people had to choose what kind of music to "listen" to while they play video games (ugh), they would be more likely to choose cookie-cutter house nonsense, rather than Anthony Braxton.