Sad Lisa was my favourite Cat Stevens song for a long time.
Around 1990 I discovered his '60s output (beyond 'I love My Dog' and 'I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun') and I soon fell in love his Mike Hurst produced work.
... Unfortunately, this process is largely manageable - the owners of big money are interested in making the broad masses stupid - they are easier to manage. (but they themselves listen to classical music and opera - masterpieces of the past and present).
The music industry is a business, let's not forget, and that any art it happens to churn out is often merely co-incidental.
Having said that, it's noticeable that in this age of information the consumer has unsurpassed access to knowledge online.
If some people want to limit themselves mainly to the incessant chatter on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok etc there's not a lot anyone can do.
Unfortunately there's still far too many people like my dad who don't have easy access to the internet, and many others like my mother can only use it in a limited way via their phones.
Even worse, far too many people seem unaware of just how pernicious companies like Google are when it comes to issues such as data theft and online tracking.
Worse still some of them like Google are actively seeking to influence consumer behaviour.
Or 'dumbing down' and shaping political opinion as it's now known as.
In Europe they brought in the GDPR act in 2019 to safeguard privacy but all it really managed to do was to make life harder for working people to access information on matters such as health etc.
The big money tech giants themselves carried on regardless.
Anyway, there's still treasure to be found for those who look.
Here's my favourite version of 'America' from West Side Story.