It comes from the internal, not the external. It comes from the identity of the performer, not the penumbra. Which is why it’s much harder to create loyalty with a song written by committee using the producer and mixer du jour. It may sound like a previous hit, it may fit on the Spotify Top […]

The surprising thing is it’s pretty good. Hudson’s got a serviceable voice, and Linda Perry is a virtuoso, but is anybody waiting for this album? NO! That paradigm ended with the last century. You know, famous person makes an album with hitmakers, a lot of money is spent on publicity and promotion and then the […]

“Taylor Swift Has Given Fans a Lot. Is It Finally Too Much? – Swift has been inescapable over the last year. With the release of ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ her latest (very long) album, some seem to finally be feeling fatigued.” Free link: https://shorturl.at/ejVYZ Gregg said he hadn’t heard anything about Harry Styles recently, was […]

Porn used to be a controlled business. Because of distribution. I.e. you could make a movie, but could you get it into a theatre? Probably not. Furthermore, it wasn’t so cheap to make a movie, you couldn’t be like Soderbergh and shoot it on your nonexistent iPhone. And then came home video, first videocassettes and […]