Idiotic.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 29 November 2015 12:40 (eight years ago) link
the previous and seemingly unassailable record, 2.4 million, set by ’N Sync, in 2000,
her label, Columbia, and its parent, Sony
can't get past the commas
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Sunday, 29 November 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
maybe one superfluous comma there?
― a hastily-observed cruet (seandalai), Sunday, 29 November 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
I'd say two: after 'N Sync and after parent.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 29 November 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
the general tone of the average "WHY ISN'T ADELE ON SPOTIFY" article, this one included, makes it sound as if she was withholding bread from childrendear entitled jagoff: you can still get this album free in a dozen different ways like, i dunno, youtube if you don't want to support the radical belief that an artist has the right to sell her own work how she'd likedear "industry insider": the current trend is for blockbuster artists to roll out a concrete album release and then a quieter exclusive or multiplatform streaming release months later and sales seem to undeniably suggest that's the smartest way to do it; if you have some sort of insight as to why that's not the case, maybe voice that argument instead of nonsensically flailing about with false "the industry has EVOLVED" platitudes
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 November 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
Stupid article but wrt the bit at the end that goes "Why not make “25” available to the premium subscribers on streaming services?": iirc TS offered this to Spotify for 1989 but Spotify refused because they don't want to have premium-only material.
Best thing about the article was the suggested link to http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-broke-the-music-business which is an interesting read
― a hastily-observed cruet (seandalai), Sunday, 29 November 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
The whole thing is stupid but this but took the biscuit considering Adele is already on record moaning about paying tax so why would she want to not make as much money to help other artists?
In this scenario, maybe Adele doesn’t get the record for albums sold, but she would have significantly increased streaming subscriptions, which would benefit many artists. The way things are going now, only Adele wins.
Of course she does! that's her whole reason for doing it!
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 29 November 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
This article is so fucking stupid that it's practically ruining my weekend
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 29 November 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
If you are an Apple or a Spotify subscriber (I am both), you are faced with a quandary over what to do about “25.”
Even if I were -- which I'm not -- I would not be faced with a quandary, because I don't care about the new Adele album. But to take an example that actually applies to me, I do subscribe to both Netflix and Hulu. And this weekend, my kids wanted to watch Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, because we recently finished the book. Guess what? No Harry Potter on Netflix or Hulu. Did I scream and yell because the services I subscribe to at a grand total of about $16 a month don't have every movie ever made (or, for that matter, most of them)? No. I paid the $3.99 for the HD stream from Amazon, because 4 bucks is still pretty cheap for an afternoon of family entertainment. (We did check the public library first, but it was checked out.) There are so many fallacies in such a short space that it's hard to even know what to say. I'm not even sure who he's worried about. The industry? The consumer? Both of those seem to be doing fine, at least as far as the Adele album goes. It's like he's gotten 100 percent on board the streaming train, and he's just mad that the whole world isn't there with him. The frustrated rage of the early adopter.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 29 November 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
reminds me of the guys who think people should only listen to the format of their choice who post on facebook how much they hate cds/vinyl/mp3s whatever.But they dont get paid for it and no more than 10 people probably read it
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
The whole thrust of his argument is "Look, lady, I already spent $20 on music this month, and now you expect me to spend another $10?!"
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
And this weekend, my kids wanted to watch Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, because we recently finished the book. Guess what? No Harry Potter on Netflix or Hulu. Did I scream and yell because the services I subscribe to at a grand total of about $16 a month don't have every movie ever made (or, for that matter, most of them)? No. I paid the $3.99 for the HD stream from Amazon, because 4 bucks is still pretty cheap for an afternoon of family entertainment. (We did check the public library first, but it was checked out.) There are so many fallacies in such a short space that it's hard to even know what to say. I'm not even sure who he's worried about. The industry? The consumer? Both of those seem to be doing fine, at least as far as the Adele album goes. It's like he's gotten 100 percent on board the streaming train, and he's just mad that the whole world isn't there with him. The frustrated rage of the early adopter.
The number of times in the last two years I've seen people blink several times when I say, "I checked X out of the library" has been astonishing. It's like, if the library's not part of your life, the library will never be in your life.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
i was mad for years that there was no high quality version of the "like dust" video by the passion puppets on youtube. livid! finally, this year, my prayers were answered.
― scott seward, Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
oh no this massively successful album may not sell as many copies as it could have. the writer of "shake it off" will only be able to afford two summer homes this year.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 29 November 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
let's not stop until culture is 100% saturated in adele
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 29 November 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
Who's Adele? [/satire]
I finally realized what the Yahoo Rihanna stuff-up reminded me of – this, from the movie Chicago
http://s12.postimg.org/a3n9ytq8d/Chicago_newspaper_Guilty_Innocent.png
Fairly inefficient journalism imo. Half of these papers will have to go in the bin, and the other half won't really be "news". Money-saving tip: just glance at the headline, then wait a few hours and buy a better newspaper. But even this fictional rubbish newspaper accepts that there are two possible versions of reality. Yahoo isn't quite there yet. (Apparently Chicago nicked that idea)
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Monday, 30 November 2015 07:56 (eight years ago) link
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2015/11/13/ezra-furman-the-outsider/
Ezra Furman is the kind of artist who comes along every now and then to reduce jaded music hacks to gibbering, simpering wrecks. All cynicism evaporates, all objectivity is thrown out of the window, and terms like “life-changing” are tossed around with giddy, reckless abandon. And it’s not just the press. Witness Furman’s new label boss, Bella Union supremo (and erstwhile Cocteau Twin) Simon Raymonde. After catching a particularly riotous gig at London’s Lexington earlier this year, Raymonde took to Instagram and became very, very excited indeed. As in, capslock excited:“EVERYTHING. ALL THINGS. LIFE. THE BEGINNINGS. THE STRUGGLE. EVERYDAY. OUTSIDE. TEARS. HEARTBREAK. UNBRIDLED JOY. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS BEFORE OR AFTER. JUST THIS MOMENT. LIVING. SHARING. LOVE. WHY WE BOTHER. THE MOST IMPORTANT. DON’T USE THE WORD VISCERAL UNLESS IT REALLY WAS. NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN.”Quite. And it’s not just Raymonde. The rest of the U.K., it would seem, has fallen head over heels in love with Furman. He’s received across-the-board fi ve-star reviews, BBC 6 Music has practically adopted him, he sells out shows in minutes, and in one of the summer’s more surreal musical/media meet-ups, he appeared in a suitably somber interview on Channel 4’s evening news. Not bad for a selfconfessed misfi t, a cross-dressing, bisexual, observant Jew with a history of depression. Even more impressive when you consider that, as recently as three years ago, he was pleading for money on Kickstarter to fund his first solo album, The Year Of No Returning. Not that he seems particularly fazed when MAGNET calls him to talk about this sudden burst of fame.
“EVERYTHING. ALL THINGS. LIFE. THE BEGINNINGS. THE STRUGGLE. EVERYDAY. OUTSIDE. TEARS. HEARTBREAK. UNBRIDLED JOY. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS BEFORE OR AFTER. JUST THIS MOMENT. LIVING. SHARING. LOVE. WHY WE BOTHER. THE MOST IMPORTANT. DON’T USE THE WORD VISCERAL UNLESS IT REALLY WAS. NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN.”
Quite. And it’s not just Raymonde. The rest of the U.K., it would seem, has fallen head over heels in love with Furman. He’s received across-the-board fi ve-star reviews, BBC 6 Music has practically adopted him, he sells out shows in minutes, and in one of the summer’s more surreal musical/media meet-ups, he appeared in a suitably somber interview on Channel 4’s evening news. Not bad for a selfconfessed misfi t, a cross-dressing, bisexual, observant Jew with a history of depression. Even more impressive when you consider that, as recently as three years ago, he was pleading for money on Kickstarter to fund his first solo album, The Year Of No Returning. Not that he seems particularly fazed when MAGNET calls him to talk about this sudden burst of fame.
Oh, and "his latest album, Perpetual Motion People, is far and away one of this year’s most sublime efforts...a giddily splenetic, high-octane record, packed full of a dizzying array of influences—the Violent Femmes, Lou Reed, ’50s doo-wop, Bowie, Jonathan Richman"...I admit to feeling a little dizzy, but it may just be nausea.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 30 November 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
What's the US version of landfill indie? Because this guy is that.
― The Male Gaz Coombes (Neil S), Monday, 30 November 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
Ezra Furman is the kind of artist who comes along every now and then to reduce jaded music hacks to gibbering, simpering wrecks.
mission accomplished
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01112/mission_accomplish_1112950c.jpg
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 November 2015 14:21 (eight years ago) link
I know some people who tell stories like that too, where they try to make shrug-worthy things or events sound interesting by applying melodrama. It's either desperate or delusional.
― Evan, Monday, 30 November 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link
maura, it was nice to see you write about Palm in RS. they played a great show at my store this year.
― scott seward, Saturday, November 28, 2015 1:22 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i love this band. weezer back!
― flopson, Monday, 30 November 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
people have been writing music for other people forever. what's the difference this time?
uhhhh...sweden?
dimbulb seabrook interview.
https://recode.net/2015/11/30/adele-owned-last-week-but-a-guy-youve-never-heard-of-owns-pop-music-heres-how-he-did-it/
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
"It’s also interesting that the [song-producing] technology was [initially] not used by the mainstream songwriting people, but it sort of came from the margins — from hip-hop people, that didn’t have access to the studios."
marginal hip-hop basement tech. until the swedes arrived...
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
is he talking drum machines
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
i have no idea.
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
apparently, if i'm reading the interview correctly, pop music was two guys banging away on a piano writing songs until the studio-less hip-hoppers showed the swedes how to do things quicker.
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CwwCbMq320
― how's life, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
so how many times do I have to read about max martin before I've heard of him
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
until an old white guy lets him produce an album, he is only a myth carried on the wind by sylvan messengers
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
he's your little swedish secret that you keep in your pocket when you want money. shhhhhhh.........
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
that sort of thing ain't my bag
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 30 November 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
used to be just 2 people sitting at a piano. now its a rapper and a producer sitting at a keyboard. TOTALLY different.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 November 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
gimme a C, a bouncy C!
http://www.abbatimeline.com/media/img/RNfWQH_53305407d910a.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
wake me up when robots are writing our songs please!
― scott seward, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
here gohttp://francoispachet.fr/http://francoispachet.fr/markovconstraints/audio/boulez_blues.mp3
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
It's not really about music. It's barely writing. But.http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/does-jermaine-jackson-have-a-jacket-potato-in-his-trousers-or-something-more-sinister
― I don't have the time or energy to make a counterargument (stevie), Friday, 11 December 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link
Still, makes you think, doesn't it?
― niels, Friday, 11 December 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
wtf
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Friday, 11 December 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
Haha. Poor NME.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 11 December 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
how the fuck can you have jermaine jackson and an alleged potato in the same article and yet not ask the question, can you peel it?
― ghosted monk: new gaz in the 'combs (NickB), Friday, 11 December 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
― ghosted monk: new gaz in the 'combs (NickB), Friday, 11 December 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
peel potato and see
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 11 December 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
not know potato
― I don't have the time or energy to make a counterargument (stevie), Friday, 11 December 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
lol stevie
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Friday, 11 December 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
"jacket potato"?
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
I mean first off it's clearly a trouser potato
― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Friday, 11 December 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
tell me i'm not dreaming (of an era where pageviews mean nothing)
― maura, Friday, 11 December 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
take off your pants and jacket potato
― poorzingis (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 11 December 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
this is the last one like this forever. promise!
https://www.vice.com/read/hw-the-definitive-guide-to-hipster-music-genres-hipster-week
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
i don't actually think its the worst or whatever. just a whatever nevermind kinda thing.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link