Thank you. On the mark! From the earliest days of mass commodification of culture by corporate entertainment, celebrities have been carefully groomed for escapist content and desensitized to the social conditions and social struggles around them. Much more should be written about (the history of) the dirty business of the mass entertainment oligarchy like warner and sony music. They relentlessly prey on us from even earlier than our toddler years. No wonder they command outrageous amounts of attention in spaces like youtube compared to authentic and uncorrupted art. With absolutely no protections in place, these mass media and entertainment oligarchs have successfully coopted and colonized “independent” spaces and genres. Corporate-driven culture (a contradiction in terms) is nothing less than the age-old colonial twilight zone. Please write more on this topic. Thank you!
Thank you. On the mark! From the earliest days of mass commodification of culture by corporate entertainment, celebrities have been carefully groomed for escapist content and desensitized to the social conditions and social struggles around them. Much more should be written about (the history of) the dirty business of the mass entertainment oligarchy like warner and sony music. They relentlessly prey on us from even earlier than our toddler years. No wonder they command outrageous amounts of attention in spaces like youtube compared to authentic and uncorrupted art. With absolutely no protections in place, these mass media and entertainment oligarchs have successfully coopted and colonized “independent” spaces and genres. Corporate-driven culture (a contradiction in terms) is nothing less than the age-old colonial twilight zone. Please write more on this topic. Thank you!