these people know how extreme they are

I’ve been on thin ice with Taylor Swift for quite some time, but if she doesn’t immediately walk back this undeniable use of generative AI to promote her album, rather than using her billions of dollars to hire artists, I’m condemning her. There’s no excuse for this. youtu.be/Zy_ot3YyQZk?...

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

I think the phrase that Forbes searches in vain for is "greed apocalypse." When tax breaks for billionaires suction the life savings out of Social Security and force people who would have comfortably retired back into the workforce at the same time new college grads are competing with ai for jobs 🙄

join the movement.
geoblock your music in israel in protest of the genocide against Palestinians.

nomusicforgenocide.org#page-2

#nomusicforgenocide

Priorities.

thread to look at later

In case anyone’s wondering what it’s like in a house of music majors, my partners took sleeping pills and are listening to an atonal orchestral piece about the holocaust to see if they get nightmares when they fall asleep. Our poor neighbors…

“go to hell” is basic. “i hope your favorite one hit wonder
disappears and returns 23 years later releasing AI slop” is smart. it’s possible. it’s terrifying.

Streaming for albums really needs to be divided by the number of tracks on the album. Morgan Wallen’s 37-track album performing 1.5x better than the 12-track KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, which has 8 songs in the top 40 right now, is a gross mischaracterization of what the more popular album is.

A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya.

the difference between “sound” & “noise” is cultural/culturally mediated

I’m sure I’m very late to the train on this but it needs to be said that once you get rid of your bias against mumble rap there’s a lot of really good things to enjoy in the genre.

hey all! i'm ashley, a historian of popular music! i also make lush, warm synthpop under the name Cascken, available basically everywhere. i'm planning on making a youtube channel analyzing and reviewing popular music, i'll put it here when it's made! i'll also post random fun personal stuff here.