“When Anti-Asian Parody Targeted BTS, the Boy Band’s Fan Army Mobilized”: https://nyti.ms/2OKoZe3 What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where a boy band singing in a foreign language has more credibility than all the American acts in the hit parade? One in which a foreign power realizes you build fan bases from […]

I guess corporations really are people. Or at least more powerful than people. And government too while we’re at it. This is a sea change. Used to be government told corporations what to do, and people agitated and protested for change. But people have lost their individual power since the advent of the internet and […]

There’s a fiction that everybody cares, they do not. That’s what sank the Grammys. Sure, they went young, but the belief that all young people care about these acts is plain wrong. Not that you’d expect an organization influenced by the major labels to understand that. The ratings for everything are falling. Not only awards […]

Is it the new turntable.fm? I was wrong about Instagram and I may be wrong about Clubhouse but I can’t say that I have any use for it, if for no other reason than I don’t want to hear what most people have to say. Put me in the Fran Lebowitz camp, although I am […]