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I don't think he's refering to the internet. I think he's refering to a musical revolution. I can feel one coming.
Music is being marketed differently. Individual artists are not a main focus for record companies, because record companies just wants to appeal to every person to be a fan of one of their bands (which means diversity), not just have someone so big you would think that he was the president. This makes just as much money for the record company. If they sell 80 million albums one year (let's call it year x), then 100 million the next (year Y), it doesn't matter if Michael Jackson or Elvis or The Beatles is 20% of year x, being the biggest artist that year, and someone else sells 5% of the 100 million in year Y. They get more money in year Y.
Eventually, the market will fall and they will need to pull it together in a huge way. When they do, that's the revolution. That's the new genre that comes out of nowhere. And it'll be big enough to reconise as a revolution during the fact. I give ten years.
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