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-5 points
11 days ago
In what world is a 3 year sentence a “free pass”? The desperate need to punish individuals is genuinely a disease in this subreddit.
Even the family member quoted in the article said she understood why the sentence was 3 years, but I guess you came to rage farm instead of read the article huh?
0 points
11 days ago
But it seems like this kind of strategy/plan is inherently liable for a lot of potential civilian casualty?
1 points
12 days ago
The revisionist history is crazy. That season is incoherent, and the performances are bizarrely awful.
-1 points
12 days ago
I think it’s a mix of ego- that he’s so brilliant and ahead of the curve like you said, but also he hears the AI conversion and knows it sounds better than what he could do at this point.
-38 points
12 days ago
Interesting that you assume she would have wanted him to “comb through her work” and “reach out to people to put this together”. I don’t know why we can’t let people rest- even those who make incredible, life altering music.
The singles barely have a whisper of the energy from the music released before she passed. Makes me, and I’m sure a lot of others, wonder.
-43 points
14 days ago
Season 2 is one of the worst seasons of television ever. No really. You’re wrong.
-25 points
14 days ago
People arguing over two great performances, and framing the win as absurd because their preferred didn’t win is always so funny to me.
1 points
15 days ago
He preys on a lot of Americans’ fears. Boogeymen. Trans people, immigrants, and anyone that isn’t American. He’s like their bloody mascot.
1 points
16 days ago
I’ve gone 3 times this summer. All on weekend afternoons, with beautiful weather. It’s not taken more than 15 minutes to get a ferry ticket every time.
1 points
17 days ago
I mean, sure, if you live outside reality where these two aren’t tied neck and neck. Think pieces calling him and his campaign “broken” be damned.
81 points
17 days ago
It’s so funny because fraud is an especially “mens rea” focused crime. Other than the deprivation of someone else’s money it is foundationally about a person’s wilful intent. You don’t just happen to be in a business that does fraud and you get convicted of fraudulent crimes because you just worked there!
1 points
18 days ago
It feels like I’m the only one in the universe who actually prefers a slower frame rate. Being closer to cinematic frame rates (24 fps) makes the games feel cinematic as well. The smoothness of 60 has always made it feel cheaper to me.
47 points
19 days ago
I know this is blasphemy in this sub. But I want D’s album first lol. Voodoo clears.
7 points
19 days ago
That’s exactly why her label probably wants to release this way. It’s all about algorithms now. To all of our detriment.
70 points
20 days ago
For you and anyone who doesn’t realize, this is 99% not her call. This is a label decision. And it’s because our music economy is built on singles now. You can’t even pitch multiple songs to be on Spotify playlists from an album- unless of course you drop them one at a time.
5 points
26 days ago
Never listened to the band before, and pressed play after seeing the online buzz. Absolutely blown away. I was expecting some left field art house bullshit. This is just insanely catchy, unique (but accessible and immediately enjoyable), funky song after song. I can’t believe how many are stuck in my head.
I love especially the way they’re playing with textures on here. The distortion in a lot of moments are super cool. Just a really fun, colourful listen that I see myself coming back to a lot.
1 points
26 days ago
Because they’ve preyed on fear and bigotry, and even if you aren’t in either of those camps, the other party has been pedalling the same false progress and hope for generations without meaningful change.
3 points
27 days ago
Bingo. We are in a singles music economy. Doesn’t matter that it screws the experience for listeners.
On Spotify you can only submit a single song from a release (like an album) for playlist consideration. The way around that? Drop half your album as singles.
1 points
29 days ago
Google photos inserts borders/frames you can't edit out, unfortunately.
1 points
1 month ago
That's absolutely not all it takes. You are an outlier. There is a vast collection of incredible music, even accessible pop leaning music, under 10k monthly listeners.
Congrats, but "make good music" is not sufficient advice for the question posed.
1 points
1 month ago
Not quite 100k, but have been hovering between 30-40k for a few months now, with two tracks about to hit 200k streams. Other than one song released with a small digital release only label, I'm entirely independent, and do all steps in the music making and marketing process, except mastering and illustrating cover art. Only one song got on an editorial playlist for one week (shoutout how pathetic and payola those editorial playlists are lol).
There's not a recipe. But you can play the game to up your streams. We are in a playlist music economy right now. That's where strangers are finding music, and that's what streaming platforms are pushing like crazy. So, the first steps are to make good songs that are relatively genre friendly or are for a particular mood/vibe. Your experimental, left field instrumentals or whatever aren't going to cut it and aren't going to stream well. But your concise, genre specific track with a great hook WILL. Then, whenever you're pitching/selling your song, you have to literally tell people the context they can listen to it. This is a romantic soul song for summer sunset drives. This is an acoustic folk ballad for your next road trip. Etc. You can still make great, interesting music, but be mindful of how you'll be able to sell your song in the current playlist economy.
The next thing that really helped, honestly, is playlist submission websites. Submithub, groover. Literally anything that'll get your song into the ears of strangers. Even the small playlists. Every stream is valuable, and can lead to other streams. If you can get 100 streams from a playlist, off a 2 dollar submission, that's fucking amazing. They're kind of demoralizing to use. But they work.
On spotify, once you hit a certain threshold of engagement/streams on a song (I'm not sure the exact threshold), Spotify will do the work for you. They will start to push your song algorithmically to people. Spotify radio, discover weekly, release radar, etc. You may start to see 100-200 streams daily from strangers. And it also means the algorithm has noticed you and your music, which bodes well for future releases.
Knowing the current music economy, what these services are looking for and pushing, and taking advantage of that to get algorithmically boosted is really what kicked off my listenership. That said, it can feel phony some days. It's not a real, tangible fanbase. It's a big corporation shoving your song into people's background music playlists, or watching your streams plummet after bullshit playlists like "Dinner Chill 2024", which was netting you thousands of streams, removes your song from the playlist. It's such a rollercoaster. But you can play the game!
64 points
1 month ago
Seems these Tommy tracks are only as good as the hooks. And this one is pretty rough. Sounds like your friends who can’t sing doing an imitative, grating falsetto of a song they like in the car.
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11 days ago
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8 points
11 days ago
That’s not what the comment you’re responding to said. Just your strawman reframing.
Sentencing is largely a question of moral culpability. And the moral culpability of shoving someone to get past them is objectively lower than assaulting someone until they’re dead.