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Band Breakups Are No Simple Thing [Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic]

By Spencer Chen
In [The Atlantic]
February 14, 2023
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• Panic! at the Disco announced their separation after 19 years, with lead singer Brendon Urie citing his focus on family as the reason.
• Nabil Ayers, a drummer turned record-label executive, explains that a band is like a company, and often is a company, with different agreements between members.
• Ayers discusses the difference between a band breakup and a reunion, and the role of fans in the internet age.
• He also explains that breakups can be seen as a marketing tool, but that they can also be a way for members to gain freedom and pursue other interests.

Published February 14, 2023
Visit The Atlantic to read Caroline Mimbs Nyce’s original post Band Breakups Are No Simple Thing

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Pitchfork and the Death of Things as Themselves [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

By Spencer Chen
In Freddie deBoer
February 8, 2023
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• Pitchfork’s review of Måneskin’s album *Rush!* is at risk of busting at the seams due to its internal contradictions.
• The review suggests that people like the band for reasons other than the sonic quality of the music, to serve an unconscious need to appear neither cool nor popular.
• Pitchfork has gone from being a hipster review site to an enforcer of the consensus “poptimist” worldview in music criticism.
• Poptimism has been the utterly dominant ideology in music criticism for years, yet it is still treated as an oppressed discourse.
• Carly Rae Jepsen is a good example of how poptimism distorts how we discuss artists, with a level of critical defensiveness about her career.
• Poptimism is fundamentally about mandating a particular taste, and failure to properly appreciate massic pop culture commodities makes you guilty of having bad taste.
• The author would like to see celebration of more music that sounds truly different, and for people to stop mistaking their devotion to popular music for some sort of statement on social justice.

Published February 8, 2023
Visit Freddie deBoer’s Substack to read Freddie deBoer’s original post Pitchfork and the Death of Things as Themselves

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Bad Bunny Overthrows the Grammys [Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic]

By Spencer Chen
In [The Atlantic]
February 6, 2023
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• Bad Bunny is the official patron saint of Latinidad, making history as the first Spanish-language artist ever nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys.
• His commercial success forced an acknowledgment that you cannot have American pop culture without Latinos.
• Bad Bunny bucks the misogynistic and homophobic history of reggaeton, wearing skirts, painting his nails, and making out with backup dancers both male and female.
• His performance at the Grammys opened with a bomba beat, featuring female dancers in traditional skirts and papier-mâché heads of Puerto Rican icons and independence advocates.
• The medley shifted to “Después de la Playa”, a merengue beat inspired by the rhythm of enslaved people cutting cane while their legs were chained together.
• Bad Bunny’s lyrics, performances, and music videos are part of a tradition of rebellion, such as his collaboration with iLe and Residente in response to the corruption scandal of then-Governor Ricardo Rosselló.

Published February 6, 2023
Visit The Atlantic to read Xochitl Gonzalez’s original post Bad Bunny Overthrows the Grammys

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Dubai Paid Beyonce $24M. She Gave Them Her Integrity. [Tanya Gold, The Free Press]

By Spencer Chen
In [The Free Press]
January 28, 2023
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• Beyoncé headlined the grand opening of Dubai’s newest luxury hotel, Atlantis The Royal, and was reportedly paid $24 million for the occasion.
• Dubai is a place where tyranny meets hyper-capitalism and Westerners come for the indentured servitude and the weather.
• Beyoncé’s latest album is an homage to black queer culture, but she performed none of its songs at the opening, likely due to the country’s stance on homosexuality.
• Other celebrities, such as Rebel Wilson and members of the Kardashian-Jenner dynasty, were also present at the opening.
• Sports figures, such as FIFA president Gianni Infantino and football stars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, have also been involved in promoting the country.
• These celebrities are being used to normalize tyranny and distract from the suffering of migrant workers in the country.

Published January 28, 2023
Visit The Free Press to read Tanya Gold’s original post Dubai Paid Beyonce $24M. She Gave Them Her Integrity.

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