TODAY’S READING ASSIGNMENT: Excellent analysis of the enigma that is Kanye West by Jon Caramanica in the N.Y. Times. The writer notes that Jezebel.com recently compiled a five-minute video “stitching together several of West’s televised outbursts and outlandish statements over the years. And while they’re mostly uncomfortable to watch, they’re motivated by a consistent, if peculiar, internal logic: that West isn’t to be disturbed. And this: “‘Kanye West media trainer quits after disastrous Today interview,’ read a headline in the New York Post following the incident, and it almost read like a headline from The Onion. First, West has media training? And second, who would take that job?” Caramanica calls My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (11/22, Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) “terrific—of course it’s terrific—[though] that doesn’t matter nearly as much as it should, at least partly because of West’s insistence on his own greatness… The result is that West becomes a polarizing public figure who happens to be the most artful pop musician of the day, not the other way around.” Insightful stuff. (11/18a)
MUSIC REVENUE TOPPED $17B IN 2023: RIAA
Streaming subscriptions lead the charge. (3/27a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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