[jdrc]

it s the paradox of globalization and no borders. in a world constrained, people might pay more attention to the local artist, who in turn gets a chance to evolve her art which garners her more local attention in a virtuous loop. In a global world people ignore the local artist for the high-sugar, global-optimum artist who has no incentive to evolve because her audience is already massive so why jinx it. Even if audience churn is fast, the audience is so big, practically endless. The local artists knows she cant win so she just copies the global optimum to sound familiar.