Who actually gives a 💩 if Taylost (verily!) Swift and others like her are dominating it anyway, regularly? Mostly by cheating/abusing the system with their fanbases, massively. All while artists - who don't have a massive industry or fanbase behind them - have to give away their fruits of labour for pennies because the payment schemes behind pop culture markets are deeply fscked up to favour the few "big ones"...

That whole pop-"culture"-thing has completely degraded to unculture decades ago. I think it was actually flawed from the beginning on: Plasticized, industrialized, capital-motivated "music" - the idea is just outright stupid, imho. Not saying it's all crap, but most of it definitely is. Even if you judge it by quality and not taste. A constant stream of uniform, moneymaking sludge designed to extract as much buck as possible. </rant>

I'm just very, very, very happy that humanity - in spite of all of this - still has an interest in keeping a vast and indie artist community alive and thriving.

Shout out to every independent musician! Keep doing what you do! 💕

^(Queue the huuuuge Swift-Fandom bashing this post in 3..2..1.. yet, as you can see above, I don't give a shite about mass-consumer-opinions.)