Todd on the “Class of 2019”

Saw this on Bluesky and was thinking about it. The period of time Todd describes, 2016-2019, it was a time of real flux for the music industry.

I mean, the music industry is always is flux but this time especially so. Spotify tripled its users in that time, with competitor services launching, TikTok came into being, pop culture found itself being politically weaponized and polarized than usual, and the music industry — for the first time in a decade — saw its revenues increase year after year after hitting an all-time low in 2014.

It was also, for me, a time when I was listening to basically no new music, for various reasons. So I feel like I didn’t witness almost any of it, haha.

Anyways, thoughts? Thoughts on thoughts?