Context: response to leaked texts from an overworked sound engineer who was working on Donda

  • yrerereb [any]
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    3 years ago

    If I couldn't create a good song without hundreds of people busting their asses all around me I would start to entertain the possibility that maybe I am not the talented one. That maybe it is collective exceptionalism propping up mediocrity.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      Very much the case for a loooot of artists fs. The collaborative process in hip hop and pop these days is honestly really cool if we were honest about it and didn’t ascribe all the work to like a single person who often has the least to do with the process

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I could walk into my living room right now and write and record a half decent song in like an hour by myself.

  • ethereal_wave [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Bruh I know and listened to both of these artists..... :internet-delenda-est: If these clowns actually think good music is made with treating workers like shit, then I gotta say these are a pair of real pretentious fucks who don't have empathy for the safety and security of people making the shit.

    Hot take good music can be made without sending someone to an ambulance these people are delusional

    • Phish [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      It's the same deranged mentality that a lot of startup founders/CEOs have. They think in order to differentiate their product their workers have to suffer more than the workers of their competition. Pretty fucked.

    • Donut
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      1 year ago

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      • fuckwit [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Every kanye album people are like this one’s actually good, one of his best ever i promise. Someone said Donda was a return to form and as good as yeezus….listened to it, just trash.

        kids see ghost: ‘oh man one of the best a of the year’…trash.

        That entire star entourage of the hiphop industry, Kanye, Drake, Future, Jay Z, jCole, Kid Cudi they’ve been pumping out garbage for years. A few (Young Thug, Pusha) are still decent. Hip hop is at the lowest it’s been in, a very generous, 10 years.

        I’m getting into boomer territory but it’s true, there was a time in 2015 when the popular artists were all competing to release decent music but they’ve completely dropped the ball and need to just fuck off already.

  • Kaputnik [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    So now instead of hiding that everything is produced through forced labour we've just reverted back to worshipping the puritan work ethic of working yourself to death, cool

  • apparitionist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Zizek is eating from the trashbin of ideology with this coward who needs to hide behind euphemisms.

    you don't get 'off the grid' quality of artistry

    Deluded neoliberal thinks hyperexploitative material conditions of workers does not produce "on the grid" crappy McDonalds art (Donald Trump, Kanye West, etc).

    We're In Hell did a good video about a reality tv show that whines about the cheapness of "gift shop art" despite only giving workers 5 hours to make something "beautiful" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6LtuLDCQrQ

  • deadtoddler420 [any]
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    3 years ago

    How would SZA know? All she's known for is being that person your brain confuses Sia with

  • deadbergeron [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    there was a post here about music and arts being mostly for rich people. And yeah, SZA, father was an executive producer at CNN, mother was an executive at AT&T. Not saying she didn't face her own unique struggles, but a background like that on top of gaining wealth, fame and success, not really a surprise she agrees with this

  • Haste_Hall [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Random, but do y'all remember when Kanye tweeted that picture of the inside of his house like "DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE SUNKEN PLACE" and everybody's like "yes" because it was just eggshell white walls with no decorating

    Idk why but I just remembered that.

  • princeofsin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I'm really shocked that a guy who was supporting a person like Trump would turn out to be piece of shit. SHOCKED!

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    SZA? Who are these maggots?

    Sevadaliza? Come on that's not even a fuckin name, y'all just making these ghouls up

    • ethereal_wave [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Sevadaliza? Come on that’s not even a fuckin name, y’all just making these ghouls up

      The singer is Iranian, her name is persian and it's a combination of her first and last name