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Being afraid to state one’s opinion of a band because it might offend someone who disagrees only leads to incredibly boring discussions of music. Nobody’s take is objective, because that’s how opinions inherently work, and pointing out that “not everything is made for you” is a pretty silly thing to say in a discussion forum. Have the courage to state your likes and dislikes openly - otherwise why bother talking at all?

You’re right about one thing - music is not a hobby for me. It’s a career. Maybe that’s why I’m comfortable taking it seriously and not hedging what I think in case someone feels differently. That passion is positive as often as it is negative, just not when the subject is a particularly annoying third-rate corporate alt-rock band.

I fully support the urge to remind the world that Third Eye Blind sucks ass whenever they are mentioned in any context

Because without omnibenevolence, he is the root cause of all pain and suffering, and therefore not only unworthy of worship, but deserving rebellion, resistance, and ultimately deposition.

This is what I’m saying - I want it to be a massive coronary, during a press event of some sort, preferably on live TV. That way martyrdom will have minimal avenues for traction except among the most diehard conspiracists. I do often wonder what’s taking so fucking long though…

I think that it is less about the ad revenue and more about decreasing the total proportion of streams that they have to pay royalties for. Spotify pays people to churn out AI music that they own, and they place that music on their popular playlists (to increase plus from actual listeners) and also have bot armies streaming it endlessly. Since royalties are not a fixed per-play fee, but rather a calculation based on the total amount of subscriber money divided by the total number of plays, massively increasing the total play count with music that does not require royalty payments means they pay out a lower proportion of what they take in each month.

The plural of anecdote is not data

Why would god use dumbasses as the standard unit of philosophy?

Thx!

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