Music

It's incredible how much tiktok is influencing music culture. ex: Increasing average song tempo, shortening song & set lengths.

I think one underappreciated thing is it might be making audiences more open minded since they're used to watching whatever the algo serves up.

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100% - great point! I love all the regional viral vids of talented kids performing their local music

yes! well said. 

most exciting to me has been the embracing of "non-traditional (western)" songs by relatively traditional western audiences. 

lots of south american, african, asian songs getting hugely popular. 

lots of people stretching themselves. I know for me at least it's opened some doors :)

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I agree the medium is always an influence (for better or worse) but disagree the quality is decreasing. Kids consume so much more information than previous generations and it gets forged into really creative output. A lot of the stuff that sounds bad to older generations is often layered with really complex context.

Before TikTok was Spotify and before the streaming as well the radio have always influenced the song length. Today, the average music quality and creativity continue to going down to follow the mainstream market.

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Yea it does seem more difficult for musicians to build audiences and deeply connect with them than in the past, since it turns everyone into a “content” creator.

I think they hear music, but they don't listen to music. Subtle, but important.

Yup, audience is now more open-minded thanks to tiktok. GTK that oldie goldies like September (Earth, Wind & Fire) went through a revival thanks to this platform (iirc)

Although I'm concerned on how these platforms considerably altered the way we consume music, it's definitely not the way it was even 5 years ago!

If it slaps in a TikTok it's a minimum viable song