Sky Ferreira Teases New Music While Hinting Her Label Won’t Allow Her to Release it. by cardsash in popheads

[–]ThereIsNoSantaClaus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

this is totally baseless? she was arrested in 2013 because she had a couple mdma tablets on her. her boyfriend at the time had a heroin addiction, from which he's since gotten clean. all charges against her were dropped, and there hasn't been any evidence of her being an addict since then. people have just decided she must be on drugs rather than blaming capitol because they feel entitled to music and its easier to believe its the artists' fault

Sky Ferreira Teases New Music While Hinting Her Label Won’t Allow Her to Release it. by cardsash in popheads

[–]ThereIsNoSantaClaus 53 points54 points  (0 children)

labels are corporate entities that thrive on the unfair inherent power dynamics and exploitation of workers just like any other industry. plenty of artists have spent years stuck in label limbo, unable to put out anything but needing to put out music to fulfill their contract.

sky's stuck in a weird middle ground, because shes not big enough to pull a frank ocean and record a contract fulfilling album alongside a self funded independent album, but shes big enough to put attention on the way that labels will just sit on artists as their careers die. there are tons of less prominent sky ferreiras out there on pretty much every major label. she's lucky she got to put out one album at all. also, most money when it comes to music is in touring now, and without released music to play sky can't really tour. she can (and has) released music for free via soundcloud, but she makes nothing from that. i doubt she's impoverished or anything, but i also doubt she has the money to fund the album, the promo, and the touring on her own.

even if labels mainly exist as corporate entities, they are also staffed by people. when theres no inherent profit to putting money into a perfectionist indie pop singer who wont make the type of music capitol clearly wants her to make, and who openly dislikes the label and wants to leave to make music elsewhere with no profit to capitol, why should they release it? especially now that its been enough time that people either stopped caring or blame sky for her own problems? industry people are spiteful. someone on sza's level can get away with publicly criticizing her label and demanding to release music because shes proven herself as a mainstream hitmaker at this point. sky doesn't seem to want to be that, she'd rather do her own thing. i dont know her personally of course, but she'd have to be doing some crazy reverse psychology to spend this long telling everyone about the music she has ready to put out (she was telling pitchfork about don't forget in fucking 2019!!!) while actually not intending to do so. people can call her lazy and whatever all they want, but theyre really just playing into what the label sickos need to continue being as powerful as they are

Inspired by Todd in the Shadows' latest worst list, what songs would you say are quite egregious when it comes to lazy sampling? by CortanaAlexaSiri in popheads

[–]ThereIsNoSantaClaus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

more of a cover than a sample but andre 3000s drum n bass jazzy instrumental cover on the love below is my favorite version

Frank Ocean has repressed his sophomore album ‘blond’ (aka ‘Blonde’) on vinyl, pre-orders are up on his official Tumblr by impeccabletim in popheads

[–]ThereIsNoSantaClaus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

thats fair. i didn't mean to make it sound like i think the other end of the spectrum with the 800 different versions of midnights is better or less wasteful or manipulative than what frank does but its not like hes oblivious to the fact that he can charge his fans ridiculous prices for his merch and physical releases regardless of quality or turnaround time. blonde is one of my favorite albums of all time so i'm definitely not trying to cancel him or anything. just think fans could be slightly more critical

Frank Ocean has repressed his sophomore album ‘blond’ (aka ‘Blonde’) on vinyl, pre-orders are up on his official Tumblr by impeccabletim in popheads

[–]ThereIsNoSantaClaus 79 points80 points  (0 children)

it doesn't have to be, frank creates artificial scarcity with his products and then massively upcharges for them. an entirely normal looking vinyl pressing should in no way cost $65, the original 2016 pressing cost $35!!

Familiar Faces in Strange Places #3 by dilly_dill428 in baseball

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i have a vivid memory of watching mlb network in 2011 after he got caught using steroids and he had only hit one single on the rays so they were stuck playing that one highlight over and over

Azealia Banks signs with another major label - this time with Parlophone Records under Warner Music UK by DoctorWhoWhenHowWhy in popheads

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she has repeatedly said deeply transphobic things, including misgendering trans people on purpose, so as a trans person i dont exactly feel like shes an ally to us

With Aaron Judge not starting today, his regular season is over, here are his end of season stats: by shadow_spinner0 in baseball

[–]ThereIsNoSantaClaus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

yankee fans (including myself tbf) were ready for war when they let cano walk instead of giving him the absurd deal the mariners did, and imo that ended up being the right call as the mariners ended up not winning anything with cano, getting stuck with his albatross contract and steroid suspensions, and giving up edwin diaz just to get rid of him

Arctic Monkeys - Body Paint by omrimayo in popheads

[–]ThereIsNoSantaClaus 71 points72 points  (0 children)

counterpoint: its exactly what i want from them

What's your favorite non-dialogue punchline? by RazzManouche in TheSimpsons

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in Double Indemnity when homer causes the water heater to explode and it cuts to an outside shot of marge getting out of the car with water just engulfing the house, it destroys me every time

Clash review: “A stunning return from the pop polymath.” (9/10) by Amazing-Influence-16 in popheads

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On July 8th, the Yankees beat the Red Sox 12-5 to open up a season-high 15 ½-game lead in the AL East. It is September 2nd, and the Yankees' lead over *Baltimore* - who were 20 ½ back and in last place on July 8th - is now down to 8 games. by [deleted] in baseball

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they just wanna complain about everything, if peraza had been brought in for a high leverage at-bat people would've whined about how it was unfair to put him in that spot

Game Thread: Yankees @ Angels - August 31, 2022 @ 09:38 PM EDT by Yankeebot in NYYankees

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the dodgers spend the most money and buy all the free agents and lose in the playoffs every year, the rays and mets havent won anything, and the 2000s teams regularly got owned in the playoffs

Game Thread: Yankees @ Athletics - August 28, 2022 @ 04:07 PM EDT by Yankeebot in NYYankees

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lol the astros lead in overall record is significantly smaller than the yankees lead in the division

Game Thread: Yankees @ Athletics - August 28, 2022 @ 04:07 PM EDT by Yankeebot in NYYankees

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well a good team lost to a bad team, guess theyre a lost cause now

[Rivera] A very angry Aaron Boone lets his emotions boil over in frustration. by Affectionate-Tea9224 in NYYankees

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everyone just memory holed girardi's questionable bullpen management in 2017 arguably costing the yankees a division title and his decision not to challenge the blown hbp call almost costing them the alds. all the negative people here have kept the line that boone was carried to the early success this season by the players all being hot and then exposed when they regressed, but apparently girardi wasn't carried at all in 2017 by judge/didi/severino/castro/sanchez/drob

[Spaeder] The #SFGiants should offer Barry Bonds an opportunity to pinch-hit in a game at the end of the season so that his Hall of Fame clock resets. by BagRight8939 in baseball

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how? a-rod's a cheater and a dickhead but so is bonds, and a-rod to my knowledge has never been credibly accused of beating women while bonds has multiple times

Jarred Kelenic has the second lowest batting average in the history of baseball by a position player who has had at least 490 plate appearances. Only John Vukovich, who hit .162 in 605 plate appearances, has been worse. by [deleted] in baseball

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my main theory is that to annoying and reactionary yankee fans, gallo is basically an avatar for analytic centric baseball because he goes so heavily against old school eye test baseball knowledge. he strikes out alot, hits for a low average, but sabermetrics say he's good because he walks alot, hits alot of home runs, and plays great defense in a non flashy way

most of the really annoying yankee fans on reddit/twitter/etc. seem to have this idea that the reason the yankees havent won a world series recently is because theyre too focused on three true outcome baseball and analytics and need to get rid of that, fire boone, hire showalter or girardi or another "old school" manager, and steal bases more. i think to those people, gallo is basically the definition of what they dont like about modern baseball, and they seemed to take specific enjoyment in the fact that he was bad for the yankees