Tate Brown

So it's like, no, it's not a conspiracy.

They actually do admit like, hey, we're prioritizing these artists over white.

The mainstream typically likes, the nostalgia is in right now.

The nostalgia is hearkening back to a time where America was a lot whiter than it is.

That's why most of the music in it is white-coated.

It was a TikTok song too.

A lot of people were using it on TikTok.

There's also this thing that happens where modern society needs a soundtrack.

The modern world needs a soundtrack, and eventually that hits capacity.

Christmas music, this happened to it 20 years ago where maybe early aughts was the last few songs made it in, and then boom, shut.

We have enough songs.

The Christmas soundtrack has enough songs.

That's what's happening in the modern world is we've hit capacity.

There's enough hits that everyone knows we don't need anymore.

That's why when you go to a wedding, they'll play a song from the 50s or the 60s.

But there's something to the concept of the stuck culture where at some point... Was it Danny Elfman?

Yep.

Man.

Because also in the 90s, you could be serious about things and still be perceived as cool, where with Zoomers, everything has to be with a degree of irony.

So if you actually try to be serious and produce something serious, everyone thinks it's cringe and gay.