Am I off base in thinking that there would be some sort of internet space for "expert" or otherwise knowledgeable folks to create something similar to early to early-peak MTV?
In the smallest scale, a YouTube channel that created playlists of different current, classic and rising artists showed the videos and then also kind of jibber-jabbed about the artists and the music scene around the artists.
I'm guessing a big hurdle is licensing, but if a person plotted out a playlist, recorded their segments then linked to other channels' videos with their segments interspersed. That's like the circuitous route. I just feel like when you ask online about how to be introduced to new music, the answer is always, just make your own playlist. There was just something about the feeling of both watching/hearing a song beginning to end (vs. someone like Rick Beato, playing a snippet of the top songs on Spotify while he nods approvingly or talks over it) and then hearing from folks who felt like they were in the know or at least sharing something.
Bigger scale would be something that paid for licenses to show videos and also created content that was influenced by the scene around music culture (if there still is music culture). Like people give MTV shit for having a long decline, but early non-music shows like Liquid Television, Beavis and Butt-head and Daria felt like they came out of subcultures around music (with B&B also kind of foreseeing YouTube reaction content). Even their early reality type shows were influenced either by "the average" youth demo, or subcultures like skating and its links to the punk scene or links to hp-hop and comedy.
This post is tooo long and I am unwisely directing the effects of my ADHD medication while at work.
