A fictional band called HUNTR/X just topped the charts, and while some parts of the musical elements are human-generated, the band, the songs, and the movie from which the band originates all indicate that acceleration into a global, mediocre, and homogenized sim world is palatable for huge swaths of the world audience.

The hit song, “Golden,” is a sterile masterwork in modern musical homogeneity. The hooks, the bridge, and musical acumen are all risk- and invention-free. With a few minor tweaks, it could be a country song. Remix it, and it plays in dance clubs in NYC or on a seniors' cruise ship. In viewing some of the social media response — and this is the disturbing part — it actually is being played in most of those milieus and venues.

Monoculture.

The hit song has logged about 6 b

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