Why must every TV show and movie be a musical now?

nypost.com:

grand jeté into every damn thing. And yet, TV and film writers and directors have a very different view. There is a growing infatuation with shoving ballads and jazz squares into television series and movies like a teapot into an overpacked suitcase.

Aka we don’t really need them.Songs in a DC Studios sequel about a murderous psychopathic clown? Sure! In Oscar bait that centers around a Mexican drug dealer who transitions into a woman?

Sí! In a Marvel show depicting a quirky coven of witches? Something tuneful this way comes.Actors in “Joker: Folie à Deux,” Netflix’s “Emilia Pérez” and Disney+’s “Agatha All Along” are belting like they’re gunning for a Tony Award.Why, God, why is everything suddenly a musical?

Has Hollywood grown weary of that old warhorse of interpersonal communication — talking? Is the entertainment industry attempting to appeal to millennials who were reared on “High School Musical” and “Glee” and have kicked traditional media to the curb in favor of YouTube clips?