> It's really not the equivalent though. I don't see anything wrong with fixing a license plate or removing a reflection or a modern-day wristwatch.

I think it depends on the primary objective of the restoration. If I’m trying to preserve history, I shouldn’t fix errors. If I’m trying to make a (by implication derivative) work that maximizes enjoyability for (new) audiences, then it’s ok to fix.

e.g. a long time ago, I once transferred vinyl recordings of an extremely amateur community musical group to CD.

After thinking long and hard, I decided to fix recording technology flaws (a bad hum) and vinyl degradation flaws (crackles, dust, etc). But I didn’t fix any of the musical performance flaws.

Bottom line: I decided to respect the history of the performance, and disrespect the history of the recording and playback technology/medium.

… well, that would be a first.

You simply had to take a few longer breaks when going on longer distance trips to re-charge your muscles. ;-)

I’d argue, that those aren’t bands in the same intuitive sense as The Beatles or Radiohead, but manufactured brands owned by producers, who hire the “band members” as employees. This concept has been around the music business for a long time. From The Monkeys to Milli Vanilli to Spice Girls and many more.

Also: Many so called bands were effectively solo artists operating under a brand name. Sometimes with very long term employees (band members) sometimes only for a limited run of projects (albums and/or tours). From ELO to NIN and countless others.

And then there is “Yes”.

Yes.

> The only way to do that is to never collaborate with anyone else.

Not necessarily. You can also treat project politics and social skills like any other technical skills that you need on your team like network engineering or database optimization.

If you can find trusted collaborators with those social and political skills, you can make a lot of things happen without necessarily being very good at it yourself.

Team building has a lot of parallels with building a full stack technology. Or building a sports team.

So I guess in your worldview a concert violinist also doesn’t make art, when they are playing a Mozart composition?

Typing the three letters in “IMO” is most certainly easier than doing/documenting complex financial analysis.

> Actor Patrick Allen, who narrated the associated public information films, recreated this narration … [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_and_Survive#Cultural_i...

https://artasartist.com/what-is-generative-art/?ref=thecodis...

That’s also because my favourite software synthesizers are increasingly modelling instruments, rather than sample based instruments. And that reduces the need for RAM and storage, but increases the thirst for CPU cycles.

Because looking at it that way, might open different analysis than most of what I’ve seen so far.

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98321164&caseSearchType=U...

My official YT subscriptions are now just a subset, mostly as a mechanism to give small channels a little algorithm boost.

"popular music" != "pop music"

The term "popular music" is an umbrella for music that has "wide appeal" and associated with "large audiences" [0] -- i.e. it's a statistical term.

It can apply to many "genres" (that's the music industry term, rather than categories).

One of those genres[1] is "pop music"[2]. And after your clarification, I now assume your OP actually meant "pop music".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_music [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music

So I’ve switched to using RSS to follow the specific niche creators that add value for me. As a result, my YT experience is entirely unlike what the YT algorithm suggests.

What is the other metric you're implying?

Because "popular" is the only metric in your statement and if that's also the metric you imply with "overrated", then the statement doesn't seem to make much sense to me.

I see what you did there :-)

> a few "stars" and legions of impoverished artists is hard to shake.

Arguably "winner takes all" economies are a very common end-point in many disciplines - not just music / the arts.

So, if you provide separate RSS feeds for different topics, I would be more inclined to subscribe to those of interest to me.

But if the RSS feed is a firehose of low signal to noise ratio for our overlapping interests, I’ll soon unsubscribe.