Beato vs Fantano: Is Music Getting Worse?

Is music getting worse? Or is it doing just fine? Two of YouTube’s most popular music critics—Rick Beato and Anthony Fantano—disagree. Great as they are, and as much as I love their channels, I think they’re both ultimately wrong, in different ways, of course.

Here are some tools to track the music you listen to. I challenge you to find your monthly per-song or per-album price (by dividing the number of songs or albums you added to your library—or spent substantial time listening to, not merely sampling—and dividing by your monthly streaming price) and post it in the comments.

https://www.last.fm/
https://www.statsforspotify.com/
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I’m looking forward to your thoughts on the two questions I posed:

1. In the aggregate, how have the sense of life and IDEAS conveyed in music changed? Is there any discernible trend, and if so, what is it? What’s the nature of that trend?

2. By what STANDARD should we gauge whether these ideas have gotten better or worse?