•This way everything is shamelessly devised as artifice and presented in an ironic context, not really serious or the slightest degree earnest.

•The work is created only as a means of manipulating the machinery to one’s end. If that successfully hits the spot publicly all the better for all concerned.

•Whether the work has integrity and expresses something deeply sought for is of little consequence. It may be argued over by tastemakers and critics but integrity is increasingly unimportant.

•The journalistic craft in this context is seen as its own art-form, self-consistent, with only a tenuous connection to the work itself.

•A DJ who chooses the music can be more relevant than a musician who makes it.

•What’s important for what’s put forward is relevance and consumption. It’s about what sticks.

•Music is not believed in as such now. It’s just another form of entertainment.

•Recognition is all.