Buck Sexton

You not knowing Pat Summerall and Morgan Wallen is... They're very different universes.

But yeah, Morgan Wallen is one of the only artists in the world, frankly, that can sell out stadiums all around the country.

And now I celebrate his whole catalog, including the throwing the chair off the roof, apparently.

Anyway, I...

think the state of music today in america is absolutely abysmal absolutely abysmal i think that the stuff that people are first of all everything is auto-tuned everything is uh uh overproduced there's nothing that's i think music has got people complain about and a hat tip ben dominic's

said something like this on x and i liked it i think he's totally right but i've been thinking this for that's why i like this tweet i've been thinking this for a long time now movies have gotten bad i think you can you might be able to argue that like pop music is even worse than like the descent of pop music is even worse than the descent of of movies over the last what do you attribute that to because i think it's certainly true is it

So movies, I think it's that everybody got afraid of being targeted on social media.

So I think the same thing is true for novels.

All of a sudden, if you make a joke that the wrong person is offended by or you try to write a book, if you're a white person that's from the perspective of someone other than a white person, it's, oh, cultural appropriation.

Is it just a culture of fear?

in taking risk and everybody's so afraid of being targeted in a social media era.

Great art requires risk would be my big picture argument.

I think the economics of it have changed a lot.

I think that it's far, for most people, it's far less lucrative and far less of a dream to be even just a successful band today than it was before.

I just think about this.

In the 90s, and maybe this is a Gen X millennial thing more than anything else, but the whole notion of the garage band,

That you want to get together with your buddies and you're going to get together and play rock and roll and maybe you'll play at the school dance and then maybe you'll play at a local venue and then somebody will sign you to some big record label and all this stuff.

This is all gone.

This doesn't really exist the same way.

You don't have the same aspiration.