I like the "formally" vs "formerly" suggesting Elon is never going to get away from Twitter in favor of X
80I like "xitter" (pronounced 'shitter')
21I always pronounced it zhitter
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Wow, what kind of person would go on the Internet and just pretend to be somebody else online? People these days have no shame anymore.
51As a strong black woman, I'm kind of pissed that we lost all those talented female lyricists and R&B singers who got Thanos snapped out of existence in the late 90s because they didn't want to sell sex. It makes me want to slap a bitch for calling it "empowerment"...
At least my inner black woman is angry af because of that.
The music industry is garbage, pure garbage. Sony and Universal execs have a special place in hell.
44The music industry is garbage, pure garbage. Sony and Universal execs have a special place in hell.
Modern labels have shamelessly sampled music from other culture, without understanding the significance, and that's truly pathetic.
One such song I came across was from Travis Scott (I think?), which was sampled from a song made by Bhakti reformists, who, way before the era of colonialism in India, spoke against brahmanism, casteism, elitism and women's right, in the 7-8th century in India. And the lyrics? Totally the opposite of what's in the sample - objectifying women like replaceable toys.
They also did the same to the Italian anti-fascist song "Bella Ciao". Now it's a stupid pop song, and people think that this is some random, catchy stuff that is played in the carnival.
10Yes, the music industry is predatory as shit. Most of the "stars", unless they negotiate their contracts the right way and become actual legends, end up in debt or suicided.
Support your local independent scene <3
9I've been thinking lately about the industrialization of music. Used to be before the gramophone you'd play music in your house. Sometimes you'd be bad. And everyone was fine with it. We just did it to enjoy it. Sometimes you and your neighbors would go to that one barn everyone was gathering in where the best musicians in town would play. They were your neighbors and friends. But now we don't know our musicians. We don't make music. We just consume it. I think we need to reclaim music. I think everyone should download DAWs and just... Fucking... Suck. And share their suck with friends and family. What you produce doesn't have to be polished, or good, it just needs to be tour own.
5I buy random instruments at thrift stores and I would HIGHLY recommend folks try it out. Pick up a shitty First Act guitar, or some bongos that were originally sold as a souvenir, or even just a cheapo plastic recorder. Just having a musical instrument or two around the house is a special thing, especially if it’s a cheap one you would let any random guest fuck around with.
I met this guy when I was a teenager and I’ll never forget the first time I saw his house. His living room was full of instruments. 8 and 12 string guitars, pan flutes, cedar flutes, loads of little percussion things, and the drums... That’s how I learned I’m a percussion guy!
He only “knew how” to play a few things, but he would noodle on anything. They were all there primarily for guests, and moreso for the ones who had never even played an instrument before.
Music is absolutely one of those things you can just fuck around with to have fun, and then accidentally end up being really good at.
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all those talented female lyricists and R&B singers who got Thanos snapped out of existence in the late 90s because they didn't want to sell sex
I dont know much about 90s music😅, could you please share some of those lyricists and singers (or suggest any of their songs)? I'm interested in listening to some of their songs :)
Kinda sad that I wasn't much aware of this issue..
5...I can't. You can find them on various features, with among others De La Soul, but the point is they left. You'd have to amass the amount of hip-hop music that I have and draw a timeline where you can see them being phased out.
It's around the time LL Cool J turned into a sex symbol and when De La had to "add some badass to perlong their life over the drum."
One of these days I want to do the whole research route, but just so I can juxtapose it to country - which also suffered the same fate, only a half a century earlier.
Capitalism is a slow crawl to mediocrity and exploitation. No culture can really survive it.
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God that's a really bad cartoon
20It desperately needs a cursor in the text and racism not completely done being spelled to make it more obvious that it's what the angry white boy is typing and not what he's responding to.
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People use false identity? Whaaat? :o
19As a pirate from the 16th century I am as shocked as you are
10No, that's not possible. And you can trust me, I'm Albert Einstein.
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It seems like all the right wingers at the moment identify as left wingers who think kamala is a bootlicker defending millionaires or whatever 😂
It's just weird..
14Reminds me of gamergate, which saw an unprecedented number of women and various minorities sign up to social media purely to voice their support for gamergate and say it wasn’t a sexist or racist movement honest.
12I mean Morgan Freeman has openly stated he wished black people didn't use the nword and there are black Republicans so this could very well be a real thing
6Is he in prison
4Translation: Stop talking about racism you are making me feel bad.
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