It&#x27;s not just the Internet. It&#x27;s that culture has changed. Not everything is based around music, and even when it is, it&#x27;s got the televisual&#x2F;life-story elements (admittedly aided by social media) that are magnitudes more involved than before.<p>No earlier generation had anything like X Factor or the Kardashians. They are phenomena as large as or larger than the nearest equivalent cultural omnipresences of earlier days (Elvis, The Beatles).