jaime brooks
@jaimebrooks.bsky.social
elite gymnastics/default genders magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com
the seat of loss jaimebrooks.substack.com
streaming services thenewinquiry.com
the seat of loss jaimebrooks.substack.com
streaming services thenewinquiry.com
here’s what i think about pitchfork doing a comments section and reader scores open.substack.com/pub/jaimebro...
It's Probably Good That Pitchfork Is Doing Comments And Reader Scores
Thoughts on forums, criticism, and competition.
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
here’s what i think about pitchfork doing a comments section and reader scores open.substack.com/pub/jaimebro...
8000 words about who owns the biggest record label in the world, what that means for music, and why the tiktok boycott of 2024 actually happened open.substack.com/pub/jaimebro...
What Does Bill Ackman Want With Universal Music Group?
Critics don't matter unless they own ten percent of the company.
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
8000 words about who owns the biggest record label in the world, what that means for music, and why the tiktok boycott of 2024 actually happened open.substack.com/pub/jaimebro...
what on earth do prof jiang's students tell their parents when they get home from those classes
October 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
what on earth do prof jiang's students tell their parents when they get home from those classes
doesn’t even feel like the right framing to me. the taylor swift masters saga began not with a decision of hers but with private equity getting involved in the music business. the real story is about capital’s influence on music, not artists influencing each other
Taylor Swift turned masters ownership from a behind-the-scenes conversation into a mainstream debate about artist autonomy. But how has that fight influenced other artists in the music industry?
Taylor Swift popularized fighting for masters. Are more artists getting ownership?
Taylor Swift turned masters ownership from a behind-the-scenes conversation into a mainstream debate about artist autonomy. But how has that fight influenced other artists in the music industry?
n.pr
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
doesn’t even feel like the right framing to me. the taylor swift masters saga began not with a decision of hers but with private equity getting involved in the music business. the real story is about capital’s influence on music, not artists influencing each other
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you're either the kind of person who wants to read something like this or you're not. if you are, i think you will find a lot to chew on here
The Story of Rockism
How much influence do music critics really have?
open.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
you're either the kind of person who wants to read something like this or you're not. if you are, i think you will find a lot to chew on here
you're either the kind of person who wants to read something like this or you're not. if you are, i think you will find a lot to chew on here
The Story of Rockism
How much influence do music critics really have?
open.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
you're either the kind of person who wants to read something like this or you're not. if you are, i think you will find a lot to chew on here
wrote about the 2020s country music boom over at defector, which i think is happening because of the way that tiktok's fyp curation foregrounds regional, bottom-up culture more than the follow-based feeds of the 2010s did
What Caused The Current Country Boom? | Defector
In 2018, Mitski released her fifth album, Be the Cowboy. She had been putting out music that was as critically acclaimed as anything in the American indie world, and promoting it in the only way that ...
defector.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
wrote about the 2020s country music boom over at defector, which i think is happening because of the way that tiktok's fyp curation foregrounds regional, bottom-up culture more than the follow-based feeds of the 2010s did
i wrote about how everything is fracking now open.substack.com/pub/jaimebro...
The Cultural Shale Revolution
Maybe you've been fracking, too.
open.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
i wrote about how everything is fracking now open.substack.com/pub/jaimebro...
![MEARSHEIMER: I don't make the rules, Mr. Lehnsherr. I just describe them. Would you prefer I lie about human nature? Pretend that states act altruistically when all evidence suggests otherwise?
MAGNETO: No. But I would prefer you acknowledge that your "natural laws" have consequences. They create worlds where children must choose between hiding who they are or facing extermination. Where survival requires building walls instead of bridges.
MEARSHEIMER: Yet you've built those walls, and they work. Krakoa is safer than mutants have ever been. Your people thrive. Your culture flourishes. Isn't that worth the moral compromises?
MAGNETO: [stopping, looking directly at Mearsheimer] Safe, yes. But at what cost? We've become everything Charles feared we would become. We've accepted that coexistence is impossible. We've embraced separation as the only solution.
MEARSHEIMER: But it IS the only solution that works. Look at your results compared to Xavier's decades of attempted integration. Which approach actually saved mutant lives?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ckuyqnr2xxjlhdew7e4m7gpl/bafkreicsqbazptgfz5fuhbcckratz3fpxyfh7lyfpempyq7wo6bne4sdzq@jpeg)
wrote a bunch of stuff about facebook and track II diplomacy and community intranets, tap in or don’t jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...
Thoughts on "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams
What can we learn from a new tell-all memoir by Facebook's former Director of Global Public Policy?
jaimebrooks.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
wrote a bunch of stuff about facebook and track II diplomacy and community intranets, tap in or don’t jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...
i want to read this
Another accidental Adorno find today. The apocryphal single copy of “Music in Radio,” written for the Princeton Radio Research Project in 1938, hidden in an untitled black binder. This analysis, among other disagreements with quantitative research, infamously got Adorno expelled from the project.
April 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
i want to read this
i wrote a big thing on substack about tariffs and deglobalization jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/notes-on-t...
Notes on the Canzukian Schism
Is America ghosting the rest of the anglosphere?
jaimebrooks.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
i wrote a big thing on substack about tariffs and deglobalization jaimebrooks.substack.com/p/notes-on-t...
everything out of this guy's mouth is just "remember when red bull gave bleep bloop knob twiddlers like me money to make art? maybe if we all try really hard to get big corporations to like us, they'll start doing that again"
April 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
everything out of this guy's mouth is just "remember when red bull gave bleep bloop knob twiddlers like me money to make art? maybe if we all try really hard to get big corporations to like us, they'll start doing that again"
"dear angel of death" by simone white, 2018
March 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"dear angel of death" by simone white, 2018
"the british counter-culture, 1966-73: a study of the underground press" by elizabeth nelson
February 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"the british counter-culture, 1966-73: a study of the underground press" by elizabeth nelson
how would you explain jimmy savile to an american? what if larry david was secretly the most prolific rapist in american history? what if the joker had a TV show where he did good deeds for needy people sometimes, and people just got used to him and started to like him?
November 21, 2024 at 6:35 PM
how would you explain jimmy savile to an american? what if larry david was secretly the most prolific rapist in american history? what if the joker had a TV show where he did good deeds for needy people sometimes, and people just got used to him and started to like him?
reading about jimmy savile
November 21, 2024 at 2:00 AM
reading about jimmy savile
they’re not doing enough with the rico suave IP. you could just cast a totally new guy in the role every six or seven years and just keep putting out new versions of the one song with different drums
November 16, 2024 at 5:02 PM
they’re not doing enough with the rico suave IP. you could just cast a totally new guy in the role every six or seven years and just keep putting out new versions of the one song with different drums
was scrolling through a piracy website last night and decided to reverse sort the entire library of movies by year so i could browse all the oldest movies on the site. saw this poster and immediately started watching. it was great!
November 14, 2024 at 11:57 PM
was scrolling through a piracy website last night and decided to reverse sort the entire library of movies by year so i could browse all the oldest movies on the site. saw this poster and immediately started watching. it was great!