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I call it the rightwing mediasphere because the right wing does dominate American news culture. How they accomplished this is a tricky question. Surely a fair amount of the impact was made because of rightwing talk radio starting with Rush Limbaugh and moving on to all the Rush clones and that particularly toxic asshole Mark Levin, playing at farm states workplaces 8 hours a day. and Fox News being so popular. and Murdoch's other ventures like the Wall St. Journal and NY Post. and the Sinclair Group's invasion of America's beloved local news. and other even more extreme wingnut streaming like Newsmax and the like. but there are other technological factors these days that may be just as important of pieces of the puzzle. There's a whole culture I will henceforth call the Tik Tok mediasphere which is ridiculously dominating this election cycle as all political ingenues who only entered the land of politics because of the charismatic orange cartoon character end up taking...

     I feel that rock has taken a huge step backwards in 21st century culture. Some of that I attribute to what I call "flunkee rock" pretty much usurping the whole brand of rock. Now I know a lot of you are of the opinion that all discussion of music is supposed to be positive but this thread isn't for you. Let me also add here that I know most of you will completely scoff at this whole thing and pick it apart thinking there he goes again trying to be the know-it-all musicologist but actually I'm airing this idea as a bit of a demo cause I want your imput so perhaps I can come up with a better draft of it in the future.      When people think of rock these days, based on at least the pretty large sample size of X/Twitter, they think far more of the Iron Maidens and Judas Priests than they do of Elvis Costellos and Neil Youngs. Rock seems to mostly for the millenial masses conjure up these black album covers with fantasy cover art and I personally feel much...

     So, I happen to be a part of this outstanding band with great melodies, lyrics, production, and an amazing rhythm section.  Our large and growing catalogue of songs has gone over really well online, to the tune of over 53,000 followers on Twitter/X.      But for awhile now it seems like this is where the buck stops, like Negative Tendencies is almost in a holding pattern, while our music has gotten better and better.  I am perplexed by why this is?   and I think I have the semblance of an answer and that is the subject of this essay.      I started to hone in on the solution to this riddle when I was watching the popular streaming show Only Murders In The Building.  This is a show about podcasters, is very up-to-date in references to the online world, very contemporary in other words.  Yet... I wonder why all the music on a show that has a quite elaborate soundtrack includes absolutely no rock whatsoever?...