Just saw the documentary The Day The Music Died regarding the history and importance of Don McLean's American Pie song. 

In ways, it is a bittersweet documentary and an uplifting one.  One funny thing, though, is I think many people will be surprised at the meaning behind all the lyrics.  Many years ago on one of Casey Kasem's Top 40 broadcasts, he supposedly deciphered all the lyrics, and, boy, was he wrong on many of them.  McLean removes all doubt about what all the lyrics mean and actually, as the program unfurls, he goes through the song line by line clearing up any misinterpretation of what lines and phrases me. 

One thing that struck me is how, in my opinion, as time moves on, there are not going to be as many long-term performers as what we have right now.  I think we are in the midst of the Last Generation of musical performers that last sixty and seventy years while also having an impressive output of material for all of those years. 

I mean, I don't know about others and how they find new music, but for me, currently, I listen to two different playlists generated by Spotify and receive compilation discs from Relix and, Under The Radar.  But don't ask me for many of the names of the people when it comes to the songs I like.

Sadly, I don't think platforms like Spotify, Amazon Music, and others like these, are very good at creating a fan base as what radio used to be.  For example, to me, the usage of the platforms allows listeners to curate their own music likes but at the same time, dilutes the names of the performers by sheer number.  By this I mean, I can't begin to tell you the names of performers of the last five songs I just downloaded.  I like the songs but have no clue about the performers and won't recall them upon hearing the song later.  Yes, many are somewhat new, but it's like they won't be around long enough to really recall. 

Or this may just be me....