Music Fatigue in the Age of Never Ending Noise

There is a strange hollowness settling over the music industry in 2025. It creeps in when you open Instagram for a quick dopamine hit. You scroll past a series of animals finding themselves in hilarious quandaries, then a sponsored post flashes up from a band with a carefully constructed thirty-second teaser. You pause for a breath, a millimetre away from tapping through. The question hangs in the air. Do you have the capacity to open your ears and your heart to something new? Do you have the patience to seed a spark of adoration that might become devotion? Or do you swipe past because you feel too overloaded to allow a song to stake a claim inside you? You open Facebook to see a friend claim that some artist has changed their life. They swear this new name will define the next decade. You blink at the post with mild guilt and mild suspicion and hit the invisible accelerator on your thumb. The thought of clicking through to a track and sitting with it properly feels like a demand on your already depleted focus. Some days, white noise or an ambient playlist feels safer and easier. You can fill your head […]

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