Put a white woman in a room full of Muslim men for 30 mins & see what happens
Now do the same with a Muslim woman in a room full of white men & notice the difference
We cannot coexist
The Avengers - the original UK TV show with Patrick Macnee etc - is a quite brilliant program whose legacy has suffered enormously because of the name Avengers now being almost exclusively associated with the Marvel movies.
The Polish bar person has just been telling me she’s bought a carp that will live in the bath until Christmas, according to tradition. Is she taking the piss or can someone Polish corroborate?
i think this is why the americans aren’t loving it it’s just so british christmas song coded. “it’s not christmassy!” americans wouldn’t know good christmas music because their only reference point is mariah carey
The phone company would send this GIANT book to your house (I’m talking like 8 inches thick on super thin paper) and it doxxed everyone in your town. Their address, their phone number, etc.. And they sent it to everyone in town. For free. Just because. Wild.
🚨 WOW: Pablo Maffeo during the halftime interview in the Valencia vs Real Madrid game:
“I really don’t feel like doing this interview; I think it’s SH*T. This interview has no place here. We’re playing a game.” 😳💥
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵