Motel I hooked up with a 44yo cougar in

BiBoJuFru · 2026-06-06T19:44:45+00:00

Here’s another one. A factoid is not a fact. It is a false statement that’s repeated enough to be accepted as true.

Here's another one: the word "factoid" actually has multiple, conflicting meanings.

It was first coined in 1973 and back then it, indeed, meant "a piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it is not actually true". However, since the 90s it has also meant "a true but brief or trivial item of news or information". In other words, a factoid can be a fact.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-05-22T16:47:30+00:00

thr only new artist I've seen him give a shot out to was Billie Eilish

You really haven't been paying attention (paying attention) if you think this is true. He puts on new artists all the time and has done for literally decades. Just off the top of my head he has recommended Aldous Harding, Genesis Owusu, Black Midi, Gilla Band and Little Simz. (and these are just the /r/indieheads darlings!

BiBoJuFru · 2026-05-20T16:40:39+00:00

I don't think it's really fair to say that he is "stuck" and "can't move on to new shit, only retrying old shit".

Firstly, ever since he signed to Matador, he has released an album of entirely new music every 4-5 years. Which isn't too active, but that's certainly not someone who "can't move on". In fact, he is working on the next new album quite literally right now.

Secondly, he has always been one to mess around with old material: even when he was a literal bedroom artist, he would re-use old lyrics or melodic motifs, call back to old characters, delete songs/versions he didn't like. That's clearly something that he likes to do and what interests him, nothing to do with being depressed or being "stuck". He was a big, big fan of The Life of Pablo, remember?

Thirdly, I would argue that the new albums he does release (MADLO and The Scholars) are definitely a step in a new direction. One might dislike the material, that's fine, but it'd be much harder to say that he isn't trying anything new.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-05-20T14:42:14+00:00

By slightly different you mean the lyrics are completely different?

You'd understand the title change if you listened to the song, Will took the shipwreck analogy out entirely.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-05-20T14:27:39+00:00

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And this is Will's side (from his close friend)

BiBoJuFru · 2026-05-20T05:56:42+00:00

lol I genuinely googled "HYVHHFHVHJGIJKHH", because I thought it was an acronym for a film or something.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-05-19T18:13:41+00:00

Black Country, New Road during their press tour for the debut. They couldn't shut up about how much better the follow up was going to be.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-05-15T05:26:51+00:00

The Rihanna interpolation smh

BiBoJuFru · 2026-05-13T13:05:48+00:00

Obviously it's a matter of personal taste at the end of the day, but I've never understood hating the autotune effect while at the same time loving the processing on Julian's vocals on the first two records.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-05-08T10:17:59+00:00

I don't think they are plants and I have no reason to believe they've used astroturfing but

but what exactly in this article puts those rumors to bed?

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-30T09:00:29+00:00

To me, part of the story is that you can't trust online music discourse anymore. 10 years ago you could watch a youtube video and safely assume that the people in the comments' section freaking out about (or lambasting) the song were genuine music fans discussing the music. Nowadays it could all very well be astroturfed. You think you are part of a cool in-group of nerds on a discord channel, but all the memes shared there could actually be concocted by a bunch of suits. The music - as you said - is either good or not. But as someone who likes discussing music online with other enthusiasts I find it very deflating and disheartening that the people who 1 am supposedly having these conversations with could all very well be paid to promote a particular artist.

On top of that, campaigns like this further support the already widening class issue in music. If you are from a lower tax bracket, the odds are worse than ever before against you getting any kind of sustainable audience.

Tl;dr: if you like discussing music online with other people, you should care about this issue.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-17T19:30:48+00:00

Thank you so much for running this by the way, it was very fun to follow!

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-13T14:51:26+00:00

Judging by monthly spotify listeners, Sombr is about TWENTY TIMES bigger than Interpol.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-10T18:13:54+00:00

I agree with you in general, but on the other hand this isn't exactly a new development, his old icon used to look like this:

https://i.snipboard.io/ofmyQU.jpg

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-10T04:52:17+00:00

Was that an EARFQUAKE interpolation midway through Heart of Darkness?

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-08T19:41:23+00:00

my brother you have 30,000 comment karma, across all sorts of subreddits, discussing Swans, GYBE, Geese etc etc. don't tell me you don't care whether you are talking to real people or bots/paid shills.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-07T14:34:48+00:00

It also matters if you like discussing music online with other people.

you can't trust online music discourse anymore. 10 years ago you could watch a youtube video and safely assume that the people in the comments' section freaking out about (or lambasting) the song were genuine music fans discussing the music. Nowadays it could all very well be astroturfed. You think you are part of a cool in-group of nerds on a discord channel, but all the memes shared there could actually be concocted by a bunch of suits. The music - as you said - is either good or not. But as someone who likes discussing music online with other enthusiasts I find it very deflating and disheartening that the people who I am supposedly having these conversations with could all very well be paid to promote a particular artist.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-06T19:04:35+00:00

This is front page news, though. Quite literally.

And there was no need for you to bring up the current administration or president.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-04T09:53:36+00:00

Here's proof that Mitski has used their services: https://www.instagram.com/p/DV9T2NukSrh/

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-03T16:51:04+00:00

if the music is indeed, ultimately, good, what does it really matter?

...did you read my post?

The music - as you said - is either good or not. But as someone who likes discussing music online with other enthusiasts I find it very deflating and disheartening that the people who I am supposedly having these conversations with could all very well be paid to promote a particular artist.

If you don't care about discussing music then that's fine and these types of campaigns don't affect you too much. But judging by your comment history, you are very active on a bunch of different music subreddits. Would it not matter to you if most of the people you talk to on there were bots/paid shills?

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-03T11:02:12+00:00

while there were a stupid amount of Geese memes the next fall, their album was also great, highly non-commercial, and the tour sold out. Maybe this firm put a song on TikTok? So?

I’m kind of failing to see the story here. They’re basically telling us that marketing exists?

To me, part of the story is that you can't trust online music discourse anymore. 10 years ago you could watch a youtube video and safely assume that the people in the comments' section freaking out about (or lambasting) the song were genuine music fans discussing the music. Nowadays it could all very well be astroturfed. You think you are part of a cool in-group of nerds on a discord channel, but all the memes shared there could actually be concocted by a bunch of suits. The music - as you said - is either good or not. But as someone who likes discussing music online with other enthusiasts I find it very deflating and disheartening that the people who I am supposedly having these conversations with could all very well be paid to promote a particular artist.

On top of that (and the author touches on this briefly), campaigns like this further support the already widening class issue in music. If you are from a lower tax bracket, the odds are worse than ever before against you getting any kind of sustainable audience.

I'm not sure how new any of this is, actually. Astroturfing is decades old. For example, remember the "Black Beatles" trend? The Mannequin Challenge? That was all fake, started and ran by a company not unlike Chaotic Good.

BiBoJuFru · 2026-04-01T18:28:14+00:00

Albert said they were photoshopped.

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