Music made 2020 better, but we failed to make 2020 better for musicians In a year where music was our lifeline, why didn't we return the favor?

Music made 2020 better, but we failed to make 2020 better for musicians In a year where music was our lifeline, why didn't we return the favor?

TechCrunch·2020-12-26 12:00

“Are you okay?”

I don’t have a good answer to the question. Knowing full well that I’m talking back to an algorithm — even one asking the same question of everyone with a different band mad-libbed in — doesn’t soften the blow. Am I? Are we? Is anyone, really?

In this case, it’s referring to Waxahatchee. I mean, yeah, I totally listened to a lot of Waxahatchee this year. Waxahatchee is good. Saint Cloud was one of my favorite albums of the year. Katie Crutchfield’s music doesn’t exist in the Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen bin for me. It’s not time to send up the signal flares when you see the band all over my Spotify social feed.

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