I agree with the first half of your statement, Bruce :-)

The people mentioned there: Dylan, Lennon, Sly Stallone, Prince; cannot be objectively labelled 'geniuses', that's just a matter of opinion. Only Lennon can be said to have done anything musically revolutionary, and he did so as part of a team, the main player of which was probably George Martin. Others will disagree with me about that, but genius in creativity is a subjective judgement. For example, my personal opinion of Dylan is that he's a talentless no-hoper who got incredibly lucky :-)

I remember studying the history of Beethoven and his rise to fame. He was labelled a genius because he happened to win out as a celebrity composer. Whether he was actually better than his contemporaries is entirely subjective.

The reason there appear to be no geniuses is that the music business has fragmented. There isn't one source of musical celebrity, there's lots of tiny fragmented musical worlds, each of which has their own selection of heroes.

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