Frownland

It's a larger trend enforced by the music industry, but to individualize it: Imagine that a homeless street performer in a third world country plays a song that a popular artist records on their cell phone while on vacation and takes into the studio. They use millions of dollars of funding to bring in great performers, arrangers, producers, and marketers that popularize the sound. When those campaigns work and make a lot of money, it can drive some crumbs of attention to the original artist once the sound is popularized, but it's nowhere near the level that they'd receive if they had backing that could afford to fail.

The music industry works in a more abstracted way and it's not immediately damning, but it's definitely something to be conscious of. Some artists make up for it by bringing artists from the cultures that influenced their sound onto their tours, labels, and such, which I think is a great approach for it despite still being a crumb approach. Sublime Frequencies is the plutonic ideal of that but I think the Grateful Dead are a good example too.

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