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Originally Posted by noisereductions
my fear is that TLOP "changing music forever" is in a direction of considering the album (like, the "finished album") obsolete. If albums become nothing more than playlists that can be continually be altered from month to month, then we don't have albums anymore.
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Well, we've kinda been looking down the barrel of that gun here in the US for quite a while now. I think it's only a matter of time before CD's just go away. But
Maybe this is a sign that we're getting to that age where we don't understand what kids are all about. I mean, I hate the whole playlist fad. It's just not how I like to listen to music. When I make playlists, I just throw all of one artist's music into shuffle. That's my playlist. I enjoyed making mix tapes for girls when I was younger, but I never appreciated receiving them. Fucking assholes thinkin they know music better than I do!
Remember though, not everyone is Kanye West. I don't think there's a huge risk of Rihanna or Taylor Swift putting out amorphous albums. They just don't have enough ideas, and are not self contained enough as artists to pull it off, nor are they hell bent on the deconstruction of pop music as we know it, as Ye is.
I really wish Pablo would come out on CD and Vinyl. I do. But maybe this is the catalyst for the next thing. Will there be a bunch of Pablos in the future? Probably not, considering the collective IQ and ambition level of most pop stars. In fact I doubt even Kanye will do this again, because that would be very in-Kanye.
I don't know.