Music is now considered a business, like Hollywood or any mainstream media. The problem is that most of it lacks soul which is what they all need now. I'm not going to **** with Hollywood because movies can be independent and actors love doing indies. TV is considered (by myself) a life support system where these actors can go to if they have a struggeling career, no names required. But there are moments where people get together and try to create pure quality entertainment, television does not depend on fads but more towards demographics. It has always been like that since television has been viewed by everyone, I myself do not watch as much tv so I slip out of that demographic of casual viewer.
Music, and I use the term loosely because of the trends, is dangerous to go into. There is a timeline where a band begins and ends, the end is devastating to artists today because of "trends" and "demographics". What might be good today is bad thirty years ago or vice versa, and that's because bands are created by businessmen who love money. Evil pigs in my opinion and others to. Producers claimthe money that these bands make through their talent and give those band "royalties". Sounds like a nice word but this accounts for: producers,writters (that's right some bands don'twrite theirown music), talent, it goes on. To balence this out, bands appeal to a certain demographic and trend to max out profits, they do not care about you. Bands that are created that have natural talent but haven't gotten with the times are doomed to recesion. To end my thoughts on this (I can go on for days) because of money, trends, pigs, and the idea that a small change in any of these can result in termination; music has been forced to because without true soul and power.
Even I realize that there is the old stuff to enjoy and the indies that also do this by sticking to the old stuff.