I see your point, however one could argue that just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should.

For example, boats. Roughly 40% of all the oil produced goes straight into the bowels of boats that ship oil to other places. This abundance of oil allows you to experience things like being able to eat asparagus out of season.

Does it make sense to be so inefficient? No, but we still do it because much like an alcoholic — we don’t know how else to be and people will literally die if the oil stops flowing. We’re seeing it now in real time.

How does this connect to the music industry? Well, the ‘performance value’ you’re referring to is entirely propped up by the oil industry. Whether it’s trucks and buses to carry equipment across the country the artist plays in, or planes to carry those same people and equipment to other countries — it is all ultimately propped up by oil. Tons and tons of it, we aren’t even getting into all the plastic that ends up being sold as merch. Further still, we haven’t addressed all the oil that goes into making their equipment, buses, trucks, planes, etc. etc…

So yeah, you can make the argument that the production value is simply superior for these big name artists. You are also tacitly expressing support for the very systems that are pushing for fascism worldwide — whether you accept reality or not.

Like, of course I would like to see individuals like Eilish do more stuff like this. I’d also like the music industry to utterly collapse. I would much rather see the music industry collapse, actually.