John Seabrook 'Why hit songs offer guilty pleasure - and how to build an authentic identity'

This episode of 'The New Abnormal' features Brooklyn-based John Seabrook, author of The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory / Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing—The Marketing of Culture / Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace / Flash of Genius, and Other True Stories of Invention. A staff writer at The New Yorker since the 90's, he explores the intersection between creativity and commerce in the fields of technology, design, and music. In the interview we discusses his views on all of the above along with his other recent articles for the New Yorker. Therefore, his viewpoints take us on a fascinating path as we discuss issues including artificial intelligence & smart composition, counter-surveillance strategies & fashion innovation, a robopop perspective on the record label of the future, social hierarchies in a commercialised culture, social fragmentation in the post-digital / post-Covid age. Plus, of course, his take on 'Hope  / Community / Resilience' which link all of #TheNewAbnormal podcasts...