This is society’s Napster moment. They never could kill P2P with the legal system. It took a bright twentysomething from a foreign country to save the record labels’ lunch. And now said labels are trying to survive by purchasing the distribution systems of much younger companies led by entrepreneurs. NO ONE running a major label […]

And everybody does not know. If everybody in the U.S. watched Sunday night’s John Oliver show, the Big Beautiful Bill would be dead on arrival. But almost no one does. In case you’re not a viewer of this HBO institution, once or twice a season John Oliver pulls a stunt. Recently, he offered to rebrand […]

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 […]

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 […]