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What happened to all the bands? Everyone wants to be Taylor Swift but no one wants to be Oasis
The numbers and trends point to a bygone era of collaborative music-making, jam sessions and inevitable band infighting.
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Why have bands like Oasis become an endangered species? Music charts today are completely dominated by solo artistes.
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Every so often, my younger colleagues like to remind me that I am an old person, inching irreversibly towards the eternal beyond.
To be fair, they don’t do this outright. What they do is to look on with bewilderment when I drop a pop culture reference.
