yeah that thumbnail and title were an instant click for me. gotta give it to the New York Times, they know how to get you to click
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yeah that thumbnail and title were an instant click for me. gotta give it to the New York Times, they know how to get you to click
Anyway, I've had many people say stuff like "I can't believe I'm the first one to tell you" blah blah blah, folks this is Bluesky, there's absolutely no one's here. I have left the arenas and am now playing small intimate clubs. I haven't heard shit from anyone
my immediate take is, i didn't really like the original non-remix version to begin with, and unfortunately peace and clarity aren't as interesting to listen to as regret and angst.
I was aware of it on my own, but believe it or not, you are the first person to bring it to me specifically
Let me know when he drops the remix
love the minimalist thumbnail
my suspicions are that this one is not gonna have legs! but! we shall see
perhaps? Bruno's having a pretty good second week numbers on streaming at least, we'll see how Harry looks in his
Okay, yeah, the Harry Styles backlash is definitely real. Compare that to Bruno Mars, his new record's getting disappointed-to-bad reviews too but the knives aren't out for him like they are for Harry
And I got so much shit for putting "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" on my worst list that year
Out now on Nebula:
Why the New York Times Loves Stupid Questions
what a strange comment
I'm pretty sure the comment was rhetorical and not directed at me
This is another big part of it, yeah. Something about lyrics just really throws the bots.
The big tell for all the AI music I've ever heard, no matter how convincing the rest of it, is the lyrics. Something about it always sounds like something that even a mid or bad lyricist wouldn't write
Corrected!
"Without U" by Jesse McCartney stops on the word stop, into the list it goes. Remember that guy? Good times
Greatest Pop Stars of February!
-Did Bruno Mars used to be funny?
-Ella Langley and Megan Moroney, huzzah
-Crying to Hilary Duff during Alternate Side Parking
-"Stateside" remix: Secretly inferior to original? megaphone.link/PMC9615010496
You can buy a egg
Google Books might have stolen them, that's what the article says they did with Vibe
List suspect, has "9 to 5" twice and is missing "Purple Rain" which should be around #102
Vogue is '90s
Complex helped pioneer early rap blogging and has been innovative in the use of social media platforms. Today its thoughtful, constant churn is unmatched for a major rap outlet, but the site is also littered with broken links or old pages that are nearly incomprehensible because of outdated CMS. I asked Rollins, who was Complex’s creative director from 2010 to 2017 and is now back in that role, how this immiseration of the reader experience happens to a major outlet with priceless archives. “It’s just the realities of technology. The content platforms get updated or upgraded, or you change language or you swap to WordPress or something, and then you have to go back and reformat shit,” he said. “They looked at some stories and they said, OK, these are the ones that were successful, so we're going to try to save these or translate them into our new format. And then there's others that were deemed not worth it.”
***This drives me craaaaaazy.*** I have had this exact experience of trying to read old Complex articles for research and the pages are just completely fucking broken, leaving me to rely solely on my pre-existing deep understanding of hip-hop culture and history (a disaster for us all!)
oh i'm aware. *Invaluable resource*, though the search engine could be better
This is an article about a topic near and dear to my heart, the fact that there are basically no archives for a lot of the important music magazines and it drives me crazy
I make a decent living sharing my opinions about music
They were already named The Misfits
If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.
Think it'd have worked better if they had someone older than McGraw on there. McGraw needs to be second up and George Strait or Randy Travis leading off
Thank you by the way for being cool in disagreement, a lot of people aren't, myself included
I think it's the writer guilting him
I admit I'm not sentimental about a lot of material things, but I also think it's grossly unfair to expect this kid to live a life he doesn't want and frame him as greedy besides