As streaming has organized everyone into its lean-back-vibes economy, in the quest for a frictionless experience, musicians coming from historically separate corners of the music business have begun to operate within the same landscapes. That’s true of the fact that major label pop stars and independent artists alike now rely on the same tools. But it’s also true in this new reality where these other two distinct industries—the business of being an artist and the business of generating background sounds—are folding in on each other.
