"Phones and AI killed music": boredom and time made great art, and both are gone
threepointone · x · 2026-11-10
staysaasy argues phones and AI have killed music: "still some good stuff" isn't the same as eras producing twenty career-defining albums a year. New artists rarely break out now while legacy acts enjoy second eras. Great art always required boredom and time — boredom is dead (nothing left to fill), and time is gone (everything is shared instantly, no more stewing). He predicts consumer products face the same fate.
threepointone quote-RTs with an AI-edited voice note marking 35 years of Pearl Jam's "Black", recounting Eddie Vedder's gas-station demo-tape origin story and how to appreciate art without assumptions about the artist.
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