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The big idea: are we all beginning to have the same taste?
Music seems to be at the forefront of a rush to uniformity. It’s time to rebel
The platforms that deliver our entertainment are geared towards offering more of the same Another example of vast numbers of people coalescing around a single musical point of reference comes in the form of Taylor Swift. I expressed a mild interest in sport documentaries on Netflix, and now it presents me with one every time I arrive there: we think you’ll love this intense series about tennis, about cycling, about sprinting. The so-called dumbphone movement has seen people who feel trapped by their own screentime wresting control of their lives from ever more sophisticated devices, and might represent the first glimmerings of rebellion.
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