Over on the youtubes, Fantano has been making videos about spotify recently, based on some of this research.
Hence, this is the best way to listen to Spotify: not relying on its playlists, being less lazy when it comes to choosing real artists, rewarding risk and musical variety… and not letting just anything play for hours on end.
So if you have a party or something, you go to the trouble to hand pick all the music yourself. If only there were some sort of way you could turn over the selections to someone trustworthy…but even if you’re paying corporations are too greedy to help with that. You do everything yourself or you get slop, there is no middle ground in modern capitalism.
You’ll have to give me the cliffnotes
We may have found an actual use for ChatGPT!
I tried for shits and giggles through copilot and (understandably) it is unable to check the video itself, but if i were to give it a transcription it would be able to provide a summary
There is always listening at a faster speed, tho!
Watching/listening now… he’s starting with a history of Beyonce…
Early on…
Then he says, it’s not just about Queen Bey and internet debates…
He’s not wrong on that… he goes on about a couple of other aspects, but the point is that looking at art and culture more generally can open up a whole pathway of thinking about society in general.
But yeah, it’s kind of long… not as long as his video on Kendrick Lamar and Drake, but pretty long! But his videos are often worth investing the time, if you can carve it out. He’s thoughtful, well-informed, and pretty funny, too.
Today is the anniversary of Joy Division’s first gig (as Warsaw) in 1977, opening for the Buzzcock’s at the electric circus… Their first EP…
Oh no! I was only halfway through and it must have gotten a take down notice from an angry member of the Beyhive!!!
This is why we can’t have nice things
Works for me?
One of the reasons!
Yeah, it’s back up now, I just noticed! I guess it was just a problem they found and needed to correct?
Okay… holy shit… part 4 gets fucking UNHINGED!