beautiful essay by @mattlee on the current state of the record industry, the importance of music to humans, and decentralization

beautiful essay by @mattlee on the current state of the record industry, the importance of music to humans, and decentralization https://paragraph.xyz/@matt/record-business

👩🏻‍🎤 alchemical power ballads & cosmic medicine metal soundtracking your Heroine’s Journey
👁️ ex-/zora; birth-mom of /cabin
🏳️‍🌈 she/her

I don’t think ai music is anything more to be afraid of than a guitar player should be afraid of a dj

i’ve been thinking that live music is basically both the most obvious thing to bet on as a hedge against AI music, and also how web3 has better primitives for supporting it