> Making music is very easy. Making music people want to listen to is hard, mind-bogglingly so.
Agreed, although making music is "easy" once you've put in the hours to learn how to make music, and getting to somewhat professional standards requires a lot of time investment.
This reduces that to zero.
The point where it becomes a "problem" is the people abusing it to pump out hundreds (or dare I say thousands) of bullshit filler "music" to get some stream income at the expense of people who have put in the effort.
Technical skill has very, very little to do with the emotional impact of music.
One of the most famous mantras in punk music was "this is a chord, this is another, now make a band"[1]. "Imagine" by John Lennon is a song written using the simplest scale and chord progressions, using a very low 4/4 tempo.
The hard part is not knowing the biggest amount of chords, it's knowing what not to use to carry your emotions.
Also, the "time investment" is the music. Once the final waveform hits the tape/DAW/recorder it's not art anymore, it's publishing.
And for most artists "learn to make music" is usually the fun part. Complicated and frustrating sometimes, but rewarding. For a lot of them, the "now play it in front of other people" part is the truly annoying one, frightening in some occasions.
Agreed, although making music is "easy" once you've put in the hours to learn how to make music, and getting to somewhat professional standards requires a lot of time investment.
This reduces that to zero.
The point where it becomes a "problem" is the people abusing it to pump out hundreds (or dare I say thousands) of bullshit filler "music" to get some stream income at the expense of people who have put in the effort.