Aloe Blacc: Music industry favors youth over mature songwriting themes
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Musician Aloe Blacc discusses how fatherhood changed his songwriting and explains why mainstream music rarely addresses adulthood and maturation.
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“So the music industry is, for all intents and purposes, a young, young person's sport and arena. We don't get a plethora of songs that are about maturation, right? We don't get songs from our best songwriters as they're growing older into the years talking about those dynamic changes because the industry favors youth and wants to keep churning Songs that'll get a thirteen-year-old to listen for eight hours a day.”
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