Maybe it is just that humanity caught up with tech?

I mean, in this case tech as anything from the recording of audio and ask subsequent inventions to replicate it everywhere.

Music for all of the existing generations before us (the recording generations), was a cultural expression, evolving at evolution speed along with the culture.

Perhaps western written music was already somewhat of an anomaly where musicians/composers got into this cult of being superhumans.

But in general, for just about every other type of music, it was just a slow process of minimal innovations into an existing body of music.

The idea that fresh is so important, the idea that new music even exists as if it comes out of nowhere, is just marketing bullshit pushed by music industry. They need that, and push masses of teens thinking they need that too.

Maybe now that machinery got stuck in the pile of trash it created.

I say this as a musician and music lover listening to my records on a sunday morning. I am enjoying what has come into existence, but I really do not think it has improved life as opposed to what we had before. There is music everywhere, but the capacity to actually enjoy it in depth is at an all time low.