"Unmoored and Meandering"

"Streaming seems less active, a steady state that turns music into a utility, something on tap–like water. Where obsessive accumulation of solid-form music or immaterial files involved passion and even an element of pathology, streaming breaks with the hunter-collector psychology. It's like radio, except there's little or no public dimension. Occasionally, your streaming selection will coincide with large numbers of other people–the waning flickers of the monoculture drawing you all to the same spot. But mostly your journeys through the library of sound are solitary and asocial."

Simon Reynolds at The Guardian calls the 2010s "the decade that broke popular culture."