Rick’s “4 bands still played in 2100” video sent me down a rabbit hole, so I wrote an essay arguing the reason is older than streaming
Rick’s video asking how Nirvana, Queen, the Police, and the Beatles out-draw nearly everyone still working lodged in my head and wouldn’t leave, so I wrote an essay trying to answer it. My argument: his four winners share one thing that living bands don’t, a closed catalog. Nothing new can ever be added, so it stops being a career and becomes canon, bounded and knowable how scripture is. It builds on Rick’s own points (biopic, covers, small discographies) and pushes toward what he gestures at near the end, that history has already decided. Grateful to him for the question, and curious what y'all makes of my answer.
u/ryanmaple — 14 hours ago