[sthu11182]

Related, but I also think distribution has made a difference. you can ignore radio and listen to whatever song you want on spotify/ipod with no reason to pay attention to hits/mainstream. before you had a more of a shared cultural experience in listening to the radio. going to the bit on fragmentation, if you liked alt rock in the 90s, you would listen to a station that would play heavy rock to britpop to indie rock all in the same hour on the same channel. i can now listen to the subgenres on separate channels on siriusxm (ie, octane vs. altnation vs siriusxmu).