music

It's the jack antonoff style cathartic whisper production style that's en vogue right now, because music is centered mainly around creating content for a vibe and there's not a better format for that than vaguely hauntological vaguely moody music. I don't even know if music is necessarily even sadder, just that the creation process is more centered around spontaneity in chord progressions that work around subdominant function more, probably because we are so used to dominant resolutions it makes us want to blow our brains out.

Also there's no core to anything that's new anymore. It's been the end of history for 30 years and you can only cope (with misery and anger in the 90s, consumerism in the 00s, and nihilism in the 10s) for so long til you get tired of it.