For people born in 2000-2008.
I feel like there has really been a hidden apocalypse in the modern consumer era, exploitation era, the era that no longer cares about humanity or it’s mental health.
From food to entertainment to supposed freedom to so called advancement of the society, we’ve only seen a steady and constant decline in the psychological and mental state of the society as a whole.
I can’t help but notice how different were the things in 2007 or even 2015. The modernity and it’s bells and whistles has really been hazardous.
Spotify. I remember trawling through Sony music stores and Limewire trying to find new music, and when I did, that album would be on repeat for a week.
Now it’s so easy to just find whatever, I’ve lost all passion for it.
I have to respectfully disagree.
Spotify’s radio and suggestion algorithm are top fucking notch. In fact… I listen to so much more fascinating, obscure, weird shit now because i can easily take any song i like, and make a radio station out of it and proceed to work all day while liking / saving / artist following anything that pulls my mind away from work and into the jam.
I have found so much more music passively through Spotify than i ever could actively through p2p, or could ever afford through a brick and mortar music shop. Not to mention never again having to experience the crushing disappointment of buying a twenty dollar album of fifteen tracks of which maybe two were good.
I’m living in the golden age of indie music. And no one will ever be able to convince me that it was better before.
I wish Spotify radios worked that well for me. They always seem to just recommend the same songs I’ve been listening to lately.
I definitely had that for a while. One thing that can help is going into your settings/preferences and clearing your Spotify cache. I believe the recommendations are at least partially based on data stored there, so clearing it can start a fresher record.
I definitely had that phase, I have a ton of playlists on Spotify with music from almost every genre (except country and western obviously).
Maybe I lost my passion for a different reason, Idk
That… Kinda makes me sad. I hope you get that passion back.
I think I just did. I went out to see Eagles of Deathmetal and a local punk band opened for them. They were fucking excellent.
https://growndownz.bandcamp.com/album/dochdwy-road
I’m buying tickets to see them again in November!
Have you thought about stopping? I don’t use spotify, and I buy almost everything I listen to on bandcamp.com (with a few amazon outliers not available there, and one outlier who does not like digital distribution and requires me to order the CD via mail :D). I only listen to full albums, repeated all the time for a while until I only return to it once in a while. That also has the effect of more money going towards the band.
Yeah, I have bought a few albums, maybe 10 off bandcamp. I think that’s really the way to go.
I should try again, I miss the feeling of having something special.
It’s not for me, but some people really enjoy holding something in their hands, so give a thought about buying vinyl or CDs as well, many on BC do offer that. Another idea would be to force yourself to only play albums on spotify ;)
I don’t even have a CD drive anymore! I got rid of my record player before I was even 20.
Maybe I’ll try to find something good on Bandcamp.
Hah, I didn’t have one either (for that one artist, I always ripped the CDs when I visited my parents :D), but actually had to buy one again recently, because I wanted to rewatch a TV show with my wife (ReGenesis, 2004, far ahead of its time biolab thriller/scifi, includes predicting things like Covid :D Gets a bit unhinged towards the end) that had no streaming (outside of free US ad supported potato quality), digital buying, lending or anything available, so I ended up ordering the DVD box from ebay and buying an external DVD drive to rip all the episodes. Then I also had to use OCR to extract the subtitles, and use Whisper AI to create new subtitles for the second season, which didn’t have any. That was a whole thing :D
I’m going to have to look into this. Canadia makes some great sci fi
It’s far more grounded than normal scifi, though. Or, said differently, very hard scifi with barely anything made up.
I too am transitioning. Have cancelled my membership to many platforms Netflix, Spotify etc. And now i want to just buy one thing and soak it in and remember each of that when I’m old.
Effortlessness doesn’t leave any print on your memory of whatever you achieve, nor does it give you that feeling of fulfillment when u get that thing yourself after doing much more effort than just tapping spotify.
I agree 💯. There’s just too much to take in today. Year ago, when we used to talk about how we don’t have so many resources in our access and we need more, what we really meant was that yes I need more things but not more stuff, i need more of this thing where I’m enjoying an album for weeks i need more of it. I want to go get a new album myself. I want to be able to access everything… But not that i want to feel FOMO when i see people going from one thing to another. I didn’t want to see this becoming a cool thing to just know too many things, buy too many things, have access to too many things. When did that become a competition and when did i become a boomer if i didn’t participate in that race of destroying my brain and my psychology which affects my life eventually.
When you feel overwhelmed and overstimulated, and don’t know what to do. Do nothing. Take a walk and just enjoy being you.