Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Swift?

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 […]

TikTok Tips

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 […]

Sophie Buddle At Departure

I discovered her on social media. I can’t tell you whether it was TikTok or Instagram Reels…I think it was the latter, although you have to know the two services are different. Instagram Reels repeats videos, TikTok does not. It all comes down to the algorithm, that’s TikTok’s special sauce. And if you’re looking for […]

Mailbag

Subject: Re: John Boylan On Little River Band Hey Bob, First of all, I love John Boylan. And I owe my career as a record producer to the coincidental fact that the REO album, You can tune a Piano, but you can’t Tuna fish, got horribly behind schedule, John was committed to produce Little River […]