From: Gerard Kinzelmann Subject: Taylor and Rolling Stone article WTF not a puff piece but a hurricane. I laughed out  loud at some sentences. Tayor’s publicists probably wrote this. How far RS https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-taylor-swift-won-commentary-1235351833/ _________________________________ That article is behind a paywall. Not that the news that Taylor Swift has reacquired her catalog of recordings is hidden, I saw […]

We tend to think life has an on/off switch. You’re either alive or your dead. But it rarely goes down that way. We thought our classic rock stars were forever. Until they weren’t. They were going to go on tour, maybe walking and playing a bit more slowly, singing in a lower key, but they’d […]

HAVE A PERSONALITY Bland doesn’t work on TikTok, edge does. Doesn’t matter whether you’re likable or not, but whether you’re interesting. DON’T BE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THINK You connect most when you’re true to yourself. You’re selling yourself, you’re in the business of yourself.  IGNORE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK Haters come with the territory. If you […]

I always try to avoid the impulse to write back to you, because I know you get a lot of both really smart people and a few crazies writing to you. But I’m almost always tempted to write back. (I grew up in the New York area during the ‘70s, and did college radio, so […]