[popcorncowboy]

> Pop music has been reduced to the equivalent of taking a shit and a lot of people don't know it.

This made me laugh pretty hard for a few minutes, I had tears in my eyes. Thank you.

Your humour is of course all the more pithy for exactly capturing the situation. Further, it applies everywhere that industrial-scale (internet-scale?) culture exists. Music, art, film, tv-shows, news, writing. We min-max everything at the altar of the algorithm, because... "reach". Or something. Money. I don't know. Whatever. It's hard to care about taking a shit.