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It’s sad that’s what’s the festival has become, although in the modern age where celebrity is all, not slightly surprising.   On one level I think it’s great that so many more genres now appear at Reading, on the other, as someone who always valued the festival as somehwere to already see a wide range of (what I consider to be) quality music, the widening of genres seems to have led to an embrace of simply the popular, as opposed to what should have increased overall quality.   I deffo felt there was less of a one hit wonder, TikTok trend vibe, in what I saw this year, I still feel though that even though the quantity of acts has fallen greatly since pre pandemic, the quality has not increased at all, indeed perhaps the opposite.   Maybe, as per the consumption comments, music listening habits are simply too diverse now to allow what everyone will see as a quality line up and why there are few breakout, headline worthy megastars.    

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I think Emptiness Machine is my song of the year to be honest, so there was no way the rest of the album was going to match up to that for me. I like Heavy is the Crown a lot too. Initially didn't like Over Each Other, but it's grown on me, pretty much because of Emily's vocals. I don't like Two Faced, which is ironic, because it could be argued that, in some ways, it's the most 'Linkin Park' song of the four, place for my head vibes.  I haven't heard any of the others yet, waiting for the full album drop at midnight. Hope I'm not as disappointed as you. 😕 

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