>It seems like so many of my favorite musicians and songwriters have passed in the last few years and I'm struggling to figure out why.
Because people generally die, and your favorite musicans are all several decades older than you, and thus close to the median life expectancy?
Assuming you are not into 2010's teen pop of course.
If one likes pre-war blues, for example, almost all of their favorite musicians would not be around anymore.
>I'm a millenial with a wide taste in music from the early 20th century blues classics to contemporary EDM but it seems like the musicians whose talent you could just sense with every note and lyric are rapidly disappearing.
Well, not many "contemporary EDM" musicians are rapidly disappearing. OTOH, Dylan, Bowie or Cohen were all 65+.
Because people generally die, and your favorite musicans are all several decades older than you, and thus close to the median life expectancy?
Assuming you are not into 2010's teen pop of course.
If one likes pre-war blues, for example, almost all of their favorite musicians would not be around anymore.
>I'm a millenial with a wide taste in music from the early 20th century blues classics to contemporary EDM but it seems like the musicians whose talent you could just sense with every note and lyric are rapidly disappearing.
Well, not many "contemporary EDM" musicians are rapidly disappearing. OTOH, Dylan, Bowie or Cohen were all 65+.