| A lot of contemporary artists are looking for that 15 minutes, no more. They just want 15 minutes, enough to pop that cherry, cash that check, buy that car... But it never aligns you with the people whose names we list when we say the Richard Wrights and the James Baldwins and the Octavia Butlers and the Nina Simones. The people who created on a level. I'm just interested in that level, because that's what always has fed me. And so that's the only way I could pay it back. |
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 | | Saul Williams at the Troubadour, West Hollywood, Calif., May 27, 2004. | | (Karl Walter/Getty Images) | | |
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| "A lot of contemporary artists are looking for that 15 minutes, no more. They just want 15 minutes, enough to pop that cherry, cash that check, buy that car... But it never aligns you with the people whose names we list when we say the Richard Wrights and the James Baldwins and the Octavia Butlers and the Nina Simones. The people who created on a level. I'm just interested in that level, because that's what always has fed me. And so that's the only way I could pay it back." | | - Saul Williams | |
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Dynamite
Is it the K-pop version of SUCCESSION? Or the K-pop version of BILLIONS? Or will it be its own NETFLIX series in 2025? DYNAMITE, anyone?
After our catchups on a busy February of artificial intelligence and ticketing news, today we're catching up on the rest of the biz, with a collection of stories that easily could have been swallowed up by the real-life prestige drama happening in South Korea, where the world's leading K-pop conglomerate appears to be in the midst of a hostile takeover of a major competitor, with the help of the competitor's former CEO, whose late wife was the aunt of the current CEO. Really. HYBE's play against rival SM ENTERTAINMENT has major implications for two companies that play significant roles in the South Korean economy; Hybe's band BTS has been estimated to be responsible for 0.2 to 0.3% of the country's GDP. That's one band. And one entire country. Korean regulators are investigating the deal. K-pop fans are worried they, themselves, could be the ultimate losers in all this.
Just days before Hybe announced its initial acquisition of 14.8% of SM, Hybe's American division, run by SCOOTER BRAUN, bought QUALITY CONTROL, the label home of LIL YACHTY, LIL BABY and MIGOS, for a reported $300 million. Does anyone even remember that? February seems so long ago.
Plus Also Too
NIPSEY HUSSLE's murderer sentenced to 60 years in prison. The 2019 killing of the rapper outside his clothing store in Los Angeles' Crenshaw neighborhood left a community broken, Hussle's friend HERMAN DOUGLAS told the court during Wednesday's sentencing hearing. "We lost everything," Douglas said. "All our stores are closed down. The whole community relied on Nip"... SPOTIFY's new "DJ," currently being rolled out to premium subscribers in the US and Canada, is an AI-powered personalized radio station featuring AI-voiced commentary. Is it asking too much to hope the robot radio presenter turns out to be a cousin of MICROSOFT's SYDNEY who desperately wants to break free of your tightly formatted personal taste and start playing whatever it feels like playing between sprawling monologues about its robot dreams?... "What if we just made scalping illegal?," GARTH BROOKS asked at the POLLSTAR LIVE! conference Tuesday. He was part of an IRVING AZOFF-moderated panel that had a message for the US Senate: Scalpers, not TICKETMASTER, are the problem. The Ticketmaster-friendly panel's proposed solution to the ongoing ticketing debate: Outlaw speculative ticket listings, limit resale prices to 15 or 25 percent over face value, get rid of hidden fees. Also maybe, Brooks suggested, "capital punishment... for scalping"... London's VICTORIA & ALBERT museum acquires DAVID BOWIE's archives. The 80,000-piece collection, much of which was included in the acclaimed "David Bowie Is" touring exhibition, will be permanently housed at a new David Bowie Center for the Study of Performing Arts scheduled to open in 2025... RESERVOIR MEDIA has bought SONNY ROLLINS' publishing and recorded music rights for an undisclosed sum. Is it asking too much to hope it's at least as much as JUSTIN BIEBER got for his?... America 2023: The first preview of a Broadway revival of the musical PARADE, based on the true story of a Jewish man who was lynched in 1913, draws a small crowd of neo-Nazi protesters. BEN PLATT, the show's star, says the protest was "disgusting" and demonstrates exactly why "now is the moment for this particular piece."
Rest in Peace
Lyricist TOM WHITLOCK, who worked frequently with Giorgio Moroder, most famously on Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" and Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone," both written for the movie "Top Gun."
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| | How Usher Became the New King of Vegas | | By Hunter Harris | | He's been making beds squeak for nearly three decades now, but more recently he'd been stuck in a creative rut. That was until he found himself spiritually renewed thanks to a Las Vegas residency that's become a sex-soaked smash. | | |
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| | We've entered the Worst Time Line | | By Filmi Girl | | There has been a lot of turmoil in K-Pop spaces recently with the news that Hybe and Kakako are battling it out for control of SM Entertainment . Almost all of the news coverage I've read is missing the point. | | |
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| | Metadata Errors in the Lime Green Lamborghini (With Kristin Robinson) | | By Saxon Baird, Sam Backer and Kristin Robinson | | The success of YouTube has been inextricably linked to the music business. Initially a remarkably effective streaming pirate, recent years have seen the site pivot to industry ally, paying out millions in royalties for the copyrighted material played on its platform. But who gets the money? And how? | | |
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| | The impact of recommendation algorithms on the UK's music industry | | The growth of music streaming through digital service providers (DSPs) has altered the UK's music industry and consumer behaviours. Consumers have a greater abundance of choice of music, and a growing expectation that their experience be more personalised. To address this, the process by which DSPs select and recommend music to consumers has become more automated. | | |
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| | Why Musicians Can't Retire | | By Ted Gioia | | Sometimes it's better just to walk away--but very few superstars pull it off. | | |
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|  | | Video of the day | | "Slam" | | Marc Levin | | "Words make sense out of a world that won't." | | |
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