Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Music doesn’t feel the same anymore… and I know that makes me sound ancient.
From TikTok literally changing how songs are written, to algorithms deciding what gets pushed, to modern “payola” hiding in plain sight—there’s a reason music today feels different.
It’s not that artists suddenly got worse.
It’s that the system rewards completely different things now.
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