by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Pop start Dua Lipa came out with a new album and….meh. I’ve not noticed any cultural significance to it’s arrival. And I say this as someone who has in the past really enjoyed much of Lipa’s stuff.
Dua Lipa
And don’t get me started on the fan-service that was Taylor Swift’s latest album.
These developments make me wonder if we’ve entered a new era of pop music where everything is so diffused and segmented that someone like me — who is always up for a new song, album or artist — can totally miss huge swaths of the music industry.
I think some of this comes from my personal reliance on Spotify to introduce me to new music. I’ve not been pushed any of Lipa’s new music via Spotify’s discovery process. But even beyond that, there just doesn’t seem to be any cultural to her new album.
It will definitely be interesting to see what happens when AI-generated pop music gets good enough that it competes head-to-head with regular old human generated music.
