who is Bob Lefsetz?

......and the dogs are us.

you really have to marvel at his ability to write a sentence like this:

Did Jackson Pollock not drip because the people couldn’t handle it?

like literally what the fuck does this mean?

ah yes, donald trump's campaign, that noted bastion of non-fakery

"Then she and her team shot themselves in the foot by refusing to put “25” on streaming services and making an album that just wasn’t good enough."

this is some top quality hedging

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"Then she and her team shot themselves in the foot by refusing to put “25” on streaming services and making an album that just wasn’t good enough."

this is some top quality hedging

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, November 29, 2016 1:55 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not an expert but taylor swift is still really, really popular and successful right?

yeah

and album sales-wise, Adele's "25" outsold it?

idk, I guess being a top selling musical artist internationally isn't enough because you're doing it wrong and didn't sell as many copies as Bob imagines you're supposed to

outsold Taylor Swift's last album, I mean

who knows who streamed more? not me. probably not Adele, because she didn't let people stream her album. Taylor Swift let people stream her album, but maybe the wrong people?

sorry my post was confusing he has grudges against both for different (or the same?) reasons, but anyway yes one thing that's pretty clear is the adele and taylor swift have really mismanaged their careers as evidenced by their quick fall into having to busk in the subway for spare change

that'd at least carry some credibility. instead, they're up there making money the wrong way. the wrong money.

"We used to stop and listen to subway buskers, now we're too busy looking at pdfs on our Blackberries to even look up...wanna be a busker? good luck, because there's a better and more talented busker and every stop -- and they aren't looking for spare change - they want exposure, just like everyone else. The music business used to be about LISTEN TO THIS now its about LOOK AT ME and today's listeners have more things to look at then ever"

it just needs to be made great again

maybe trump will strip the citizenship of artists who don't put their music on spotify.

why bother? they're punishing themselves far worse than we ever could

the good old days, when 100s of millions of viewers would tune into Alternative Nation

lefsetz, the human incarnation of >TAKE ALL

Personally, I love to give oral. It's a gift.

"The woman is appreciative. And when she comes!! She’s in her own private reverie, it’s astounding to watch."

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D:

tmi

lefsetz this is not the best context to deploy "warts and all"

this is the worst lefsetz ever

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can we organize a class-action lawsuit against lef for this column? i'm mentally scarred for life.

The People vs. Bob Lesfetz

good god

The woman is appreciative. And when she comes!! She’s in her own private reverie, it’s astounding to watch.

i thought that was satire, riffing off the previous post. then i went to the original column and saw it was in fact there in all of its very public reverie. then i kept reading. i want in on that class-action lawsuit. i'm already losing weight and feeling lethargic and lost.

you think it's bad now you're the one who has to fact check lefsetz's cunny skills

oh, he's got skills, i assure you. no need to factcheck. the woman is appreciative. i saw it on the internet.

she'll be coming round the mountain -- and when she comes!!

Have you ever gotten a woman to fart in public? Good luck! You’ve got to be in a relationship for that.

it’s astounding to watch.

I'm pretty sure this means he's filming it.

he has a new one up already but I don't think I can recover from the Lefsetz cunnilingus missive

Sundays with Lefsetz...

Max Martin, you're the only one who can save us, along with a bunch of other expats, foreigners like DJ Snake and Mark Ronson, the people who make the hits, you're under the spotlight, you've got to write the track.

All you wannabes looking for publicity, we don't need you. Unless you're gonna do cover versions of the hit track. We need the people who make the Spotify Top 50, because they've got the greatest reach, they're the ones people are truly listening to.

you forgot the best part which is that this is about the CIA report on russia

our savior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdYGQ7B0Vew

Did I ever tell you about the time I left part of my tongue on the T-bar at Stratton?

Tongue Tales by Bob Lefsetz (Hyperion, 2017)

All hail Lefsetz! King of the false premise!

Lefsetz has been reading too much Saramago and is infatuated with the comma splice

Kid Rock and Ted Nugent are lining up, paragons of the past, do you see them anywhere on the Spotify Top 50, nowhere close, and you’ll probably get a couple of country acts too, brain dead singers of others’ songs who oftentimes are racist underneath it all, then again, some of the biggest country acts rap, isn’t that confounding, hell, Florida Georgia Line made massive hits integrating the urban sound, even Luke Bryan does it too, what’s up?

on the kennedy center honors:

even worse was Juanes doing “Hotel California. Why don’t you get Timothy B. Schmit to sing at the Latin Grammys?

and

Believe me, CEOs don’t want to be Pitbull, they want to be Don Henley or Glenn Frey or Joe Walsh

All CEOs:Well, yeah.

haha

In other news, Lefsetz's "source" claims George Michael committed suicide...

That’s when Wham! first resonated for me. I woke up after the first night with my ex-wife and “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” was playing on the MTV. When that channel defined the culture, with a power not seen since. We Americans were still trying to figure out the transition from classic rock. We thought we killed disco, but we did not know what came next. Then the Brits came along and stole our lunch, not only Soft Cell and Human League, but Culture Club and George Michael. The sensibility was different. It was not about being coolly attached to what once was, but throwing out the baby with the bathwater and starting anew. Pop was no longer a dirty word. Synthesizers were as important as guitars. Limits were being tested and the acts seemed to be having so much fun, we found them irresistible.

Debbie Reynolds RIP

First of all, there's touch. And sex. After all, we're animals. Try and hug someone every day, not in a perfunctory way, but in a style more conscious, like life is hard but at least you have each other. My parents never touched me growing up, could be a fifties thing, I don't know, and I struggle with flesh on flesh, but I do know when done right touch roots me, and you.

I'll stick with perfunctory hugging for most.

I'm more of a discrete-head-nod-from-across-the-room person.

Found on Twitter:

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"Personally, I love to give oral. It's a gift."

--Bob Marley

The biggest act in the business is Adele, and although she faltered with "25," her previous album, "21," outsold its competition by a factor of ten.

If Lefsetz thinks that selling 8 million copies is faltering, then he clearly doesn't have a Soundscan account

I wonder what the Lef's stance is on 'New Jersey's...