Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks
Musicians getting rich was a brief phenomenon. Historically, musicians ranked below bartenders.  Making phonograph records was a process with expensive tooling, manufacturing, and distribution costs.  Radio was an industry with limited airtime and a small number of stations.  These factors created an industry with few songs produced in large numbers, resulting in the &quot;rock star&quot; industry.<p>That&#x27;s over. Through heavy promotion, there are still stars, but they have a smaller fraction of overall plays and the margins are lower.<p>And we haven&#x27;t even had much AI-generated music yet. That has to be coming soon.<p><i>When a Vocaloid learns your job, what are you going to do?</i>