MYLEN

make it happen!

[Pigeons & Planes @PigsAndPlans]

James Blake took to his Instagram story to call out the state of the music industry's metrics, one by one.

"Can't trust a review because blogs/mags stopped making money so journalists now get paid off by labels…can’t trust a comment section…YouTube numbers…streaming numbers…Can’t even trust a song that was made by human beings,” he wrote. Read his full note below.

@jamesblake concluded with a message to artists: "You're probably doing better than you think."

[kenneth blume @kennybeats]

Hey @suno

You are true losers. Whoever’s running this account, and your boss, and their bosses boss. I can’t imagine going into work daily knowing you are stealing from countless struggling musicians. I can’t imagine being proud to earn a paycheck obliterating the work and dreams of artists.

Get fucked, every single one of you

[Ismael @ElCousteau]

niggas left me to figure it out & i did

[M ⌖ ÆON @YUNGSADISTlC]

and for my next trick, I will persevere out of pure fucking spite.

[SIDESHOW @TIGRAYFUNK]

don’t let the internet fool you into losing your faith in humanity. the moment we all abandon all hope in each-other is the moment evil wins man

[Cousin Stizz @CousinStizz]

Everyday I become a man of fewer words

[Breakfast in Monaco🌹 @__Wavve]

Like, this is a ridiculous 2020s catalog and the decade isn’t even over yet

[୨ৎ @feralballads]

don’t use ai to write. use childhood trauma like a real poet.

[Z @BrianZisook]

"You can't remake the same thing. It's going to be good, but not as good as the first time."

If you're a creative, read @iamjmsn on how curiosity drives everything he makes.

[Desirée @OfficialDesiree]

Racism is a sign of low intelligence.

[DJ Pain 1 @djpain1]

Every classic song/album you love was created without AI. We do not need it. We never needed it.

[First Doctor @FirstDoctor]

Never take for granted a body that wakes up and functions without a medical crisis attached to it. That is grace.

[Tony D @tonydpoison]

Because looking at it objectively, racism is fucking stupid and nobody wants to admit they're fucking stupid.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Kwame @realKwameOffei]

A slave's attempt to flee slavery was once considered a mental illness.

[Rashad McCants @SoundbiteKing]

This is what did it….

It’s your fault @kendricklamar 😂

[Acey GNX 🎙️🔥 @AceyFlamez]

“Them superpowers getting neutralized.. I can only watch in silence..”

[🌹XII.VIII.MCMXIV🌹 @forevrblushing]

If u got maga promoting your shit that’s instantly a 3 pack of ass

[Miles @mtvsthewrld_]

The fact that he is so good at this really puts into perspective how cartoonishly evil the average politician is

[MARCO PLUS @notmarcoplus]

idk bro i feel like it's crazy pretentious to label someone a "failed artist" because you feel they didn't grow or evolve the way YOU wanted them to. as long as a mf make what they truly want to make, they not failing. that's just me, tho.