Why would you make new music when all the growth in the industry is from old music
At a wedding recently I heard my mate Hutcho belt out an old school banger with more energy and passion than the original artist could of. I jokingly asked afterward, “why do people make new music?” There is so much good music, how do you even get the guts to release a new song and meekly tell the world that you’ve made new music despite there being so much good music.
Then once you actually make new music, you’re hoping that the algorithmically-driven music industry today accepts your offering and feeds it to the masses, so much so that you can put food on the table.
Then I read about the actual state of the music industry. Ted Gioia writes a few days ago:
“All the growth in the market is coming from old songs. The 200 most popular tracks now account for less than 5% of total streams.”
And if you enjoy reading about the death, and rebirth, of pop, you should read Adam Singer as well..
I just want to get out ahead of any rumours being spread by our almost 11 month old and go on the record saying that we do feed her enough food, and some would say too much food. She’s well fed, don’t believe what she tells you.
I have issue with Apple’s Texas Hold’em game. Do they not have a graphic designer on staff? Could they not just get a photo of a bunch of Macs on a shelf in a garage from @ismh?
Sea breeze
Make taxi ranks car parks again. Return the taxi tanks to the people.
If only he’d been like a bat out of Wuhan, still here when the morning comes, when Christmas comes, when the wedding comes, the funeral comes, still here, a few years on.
“Like a bat out of hell I’ll be gone when the morning comes”
If you’ve ever worried about robots rising up and taking over, have no fear, they’re a long way off.
I’ve used brooms smarter than our Roomba i7.
Toowoomba’s, Gabbinbar Homestead, on a Thursday afternoon
A Jewish scholar I once heard speak talked about how his people viewed life and death not as one season followed by another, life and then death, but that throughout your day they were states you would enter. That your decisions and thoughts and actions would take into life or death.
That for a people so obsessed with life after death and whether we could get into heaven - or if there was one at all - we could be focused on bringing heaven to earth today through our words, thoughts, and actions.
The one truth everyone that has ever existed can testify to is that you cannot stop people dying, but you can stop them living.
Who do I have to talk to about making the next Mission: Impossible movie about stolen NFTs.
Mission: Impossible - Right Click.
She turns around to tell me to make sure I take a photo of her on the scooter, “take photo of me!” My firstborn, @lunawithers.
January 2022 in the Associated Press:
“A bill … that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort””
That face when dad makes you leave the beach
South of Talle’ on a Tuesday afternoon
I’m not antistacks, I’m just saying, when you’re on the bottom of a stacks-on it sucks. It’s all well and good if you’re on the top of the stack, but the rest of us have a large weight on our shoulders, torso, legs, etc.
I’ve upgraded my MacBook this week to a new MacBook Pro, and a friend asked me how it was.
I said it’s unnoticeable, like a good marriage celebrant, or a good real estate agent should be. That good that you don’t notice.
When your computer is slow you notice, and you moan about it. When your celebrant isn’t confident and delivering a great ceremony, you notice it and joke about it at the reception, and when your real estate agent is a dodgy one, you really notice, and tell all your mates.
My hope is that I’m that good that you don’t notice. That I’d be like my new MacBook, so fast, efficient, and plain old good, that you don’t notice how good until you think about all the other computers you’ve used and you realise you’ve got a real powerhouse of a computer in front of you.