I can't buy an argument about there being too many options. If there were a lot of options, and you liked a lot of them, you could just randomly sample new albums, or listen to whatever Spotify told you to listen to, and there would be no problem finding new music. I suspect the issue is there's a lot of music out there and none of it sounds like what you want.
Note that this isn't saying music today is bad, it's got nothing to do with that.
At a certain point, changing trends in music cause it to drift too far from your internal model (developed in youth) for what a song should be, and it becomes hard to take, decreasing returns with increasing effort, and you say "fuck it, I'll just listen to what I already like for the rest of my life".
Note that this isn't saying music today is bad, it's got nothing to do with that.
At a certain point, changing trends in music cause it to drift too far from your internal model (developed in youth) for what a song should be, and it becomes hard to take, decreasing returns with increasing effort, and you say "fuck it, I'll just listen to what I already like for the rest of my life".