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From Madonna to AI: How Culture Got Hijacked | History of the Present with Michael Rosenblatt
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1:00:51Now PlayingMichael Rosenblatt helped shape modern popular music. From discovering the B-52s as a young messenger at Sire Records to helping bring Madonna to the world, he has spent nearly 50 years inside the machinery of culture.
Now, he joins Brian Daitzman on History of the Present to explain why the same forces that changed music — algorithms, social media, artificial intelligence, corporate consolidation, and broken gatekeeping — are also reshaping democracy itself.
Rosenblatt warns that AI-generated music cheapens the human struggle behind art, that social media has fragmented the public square, and that a handful of billionaires now hold terrifying power over the future of culture, labor, and politics. He also connects the dots between Trump, political dysfunction, climate change, inequality, and a 2026 election cycle he says “scares the shit” out of him.
This is a conversation about music, technology, democracy, and whether America still knows how to build a shared future.
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