stan the man
Since we’ve been reading Waiting for Godot, I thought it would be interesting to examine a different sort of wait, a wait for album releases. In music, there’s sort of a dichotomy on how artists tackle the wait between albums. Some artists work on music for more than three year. Others work on it in the background as they begin companies or other avenues of work. And finally, some artists manage to pump out of a new album every 1-2 years, working on it all throughout their tour. But in the era of streaming, where more music is worth more than good music, fans clamor for more and more music, begging artists to drop on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media apps. This mindset is extremely dangerous for the music industry, especially since we’ve been seeing more and more companies listening to the commotion, pushing artists to drop B-list tracks in an effort to momentarily appease the crowd. And while popular artists usually don’t feel the pressure to listen to this...