I don’t think The Eagles or Carole King (etc, etc, etc) are worried about putting out a song or video or putting on a show where people are inspired to tell other people about how good it was.
They don’t need that anymore. They used to but now they don’t need to.
The people simply thinking ‘that was good’ (without ever telling other people ‘that was good’) is enough. A certain critical mass of people listen to the music, watch the videos, come to the shows and sustain the artists’ career.
That’s enough. They don’t need anymore new fans.
What this really means is…they did the hard part a long time ago. They built that critical mass via being an artist that you had to tell people about.
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