I am an active musician, but I don't actually make money at it, I was mostly joking, but: I believe that we are (one determined smart person + six months) away from bots on Youtube and other streaming platforms that generate endless "new" music that follows those simple formulas (beat, bass, sample = loop, several loops connected up = song) 24/7.
Raves that have no human DJs and never stop.
Good? Bad? Not for me to say, really, the most I make at it is a couple hundred bucks for two nights in a bar playing FM radio hits, and there's lots of people younger than me who like that music, so obviously I'm doing it for different reasons and I don't anticipate losing access to as many bar gigs as I want for the rest of my life.
But certain genres are very tolerant of low-effort music, and I think the people who are monetizing low-effort music are gonna lose their income streams. I do different things than those people, but I still consider them compatriots, even if I don't care for their art.
Raves that have no human DJs and never stop.
Good? Bad? Not for me to say, really, the most I make at it is a couple hundred bucks for two nights in a bar playing FM radio hits, and there's lots of people younger than me who like that music, so obviously I'm doing it for different reasons and I don't anticipate losing access to as many bar gigs as I want for the rest of my life.
But certain genres are very tolerant of low-effort music, and I think the people who are monetizing low-effort music are gonna lose their income streams. I do different things than those people, but I still consider them compatriots, even if I don't care for their art.