The summer song is dead

Devon Powers says There is one remarkable point that no one has been involved in the 2025 summer song, or why it doesn’t seem to be one of them this year: Donald Trump.

Since the media is less focused – music players replaced radio stations, Tiktok kills music video, etc. – How people consume music and listen to them, even more scattered. But today, Trump reflects a reefur of cultural solidarity and may be the closest thing in our society that we have to a single culture. In the United States, he is the only creature that the majority of the people have all gathered around them, whether they are or against what he stands.

Powers says his impact goes beyond Washington’s broken political arena, DC, and he can even affect music diagrams. One of the reasons that there is no song from this summer this summer, “may be in a strange way with Trump”, a face whose shadow is large and everything is “related to the dominant cultural change”.

“There was a lot of discussion about the end of the election season and just after Trump’s election about Trump’s forecasting music,” he said. Yellow stoneReturn of TRAD Wives in Pope and Movement Movement. “All this fits in with it.”

But there are also other peak factors – a complete storm of conditions – that has helped an unpredictable summer for music.

For example, listening habits are changing again in broadcasting services such as Spotify and SoundCloud, where tastes are growing, people are moving outside their comfort areas, and loyalty to any genre is death. The industry also suffers from what has come to a crisis of creative authenticity, because the streams are drowned with AI Slop, which has become the genre. Then Trump is so much that their hegemonic impact may show a new version of a single culture that even the music industry cannot escape.

Powers, a professor of media studies at the University of Michigan and author of the book In the process: Future Forecasting Trade, He says his impact can actually be its impact on the current direction of the industry. According to a Midear Luminate poll on the music process released last month, more music is being played than ever before, but overall growth has declined worldwide.

Despite that, Christian music is on the rise. The genre is evolving rapidly, both in how it is defined and discovered.

“Traditionally, there has been a relatively closed ecosystem, with limited distribution, niche channels and very specific audiences, especially in radio and retail,” says JJ Iteiano. “But as younger, indigenous listeners have become more dominant, there is a place for a new wave of Christian and faith -based artists to discover a wider voice.”