Re: killing music...
Music’s fine. There are tons of bands and artists writing, performing, and recording all over the country the world. On any night in pretty much any town you can find talented people playing and singing their hearts out for you, hawking CDs and T-Shirts out of a cardboard box, and touting their social media links for the pure joy of it. I should know, I’m regularly one of them[1].
The music industry however is another matter - that’s dead[2] And to be honest I don’t see any reason why anyone would miss it. If (the Taylor Swifts of the world aside) the recorded music business implodes leaving the space it used to occupy to hyper local scenes of passionate amateurs and semi-pros making music out of compulsion rather than to put cars in the garage and yachts on the water for shareholders in corporations that’ll be a huge step forward for humanity…
[1] In my case I’ll leave judgement on the talented bit to the audiences
[12] Although to a greater or lesser extent the corpse is still twitching to give an illusion of life…