[Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.]

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[Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.]

Hard work is a requisite for success, not a guarantee. It is very rarely enough in itself - luck, right time right place, gatekeeping, good looks, cynicism, opportunism, positioning, controversy, etc, needs to be in place in addition. 

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37 minutes ago, ignatius said:

 

 

I've half jokingly been calling the USA a "developing country" for the last 20 years. At this rate it's not even that, it's unravelling before our eyes.

[Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.]

3 hours ago, rhmilo said:

Considering these three golden boys as opposed to Chuck Berry, The Beatles or Led Zeppelin is really, really stretching it.

They were just examples. Most of the Beatles guys and some of the Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones boys went to art colleges, too. Pretty sure Chuck Berry didnt, haha. 

Your examples ("Rock'n'roll divinity") are often associated with the the lone genius artist myth, which is a boring as hell analysis.

In the 60s you could actually earn your living as a working musician while perfecting your craft and style - like Page, Hendrix, etc did as hired guns. Then the dole (or rather all the free time that goes along with it) was an important factor in several music scenes during the 80s and 90s, when unemployment was at its highest in the post war era.

Hard work is the main common factor in any successful artist's career - how do you find the time and motivation for it? I think social parameters are interesting starting points in answering those questions when it comes to 20th century pop culture. Working class (Detroit techno) vs middle class (UK prog rock), social democracies (Swedish death metal) vs developing countries (Jamaican reggae), and on and on. 

 

[Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.]

2 hours ago, rhmilo said:

The true greats came up through hard work, not through government subsidies.

 

I think most of your golden boys came up in art schools, ie subsided by their parents. The Who, Stones, Roxy Music, etc. 

[Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.]

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/horace-trubridge/class-and-the-arts_b_8647352.html

29 minutes ago, rhmilo said:

How many of the truly great artists from the UK spent time on the dole? A lot of them just worked hard. Beatles, Led Zeppelin / Black Sabbath / Deep Purple, the WATMM Featured Artists (tm): they all played music people paid money to hear.

In fact I can't think of any dole takers off the top of my head.

 

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That's some gassy stuff right there.

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Reminds me of the Dopesmoker cover, too.

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Sold out faster than fast. 

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Pasty 

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3 hours ago, d-a-m-o said:

So hyped for this one, love that first track and this machine gun kick !

Sounds a bit like Metallica. 

[Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says working musicians can no longer release music only “once every three to four years.” Spotify's stock value hit all-time highs of $50 billion this summer.]

Synch is licensing, no?

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I tried to watch the interview from the top. Lasted five minutes.

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Yeah, those vocals are great!

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My Revox died in a puff of smoke a while back. Need to recap it one day. 

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3 hours ago, azatoth said:

What's the point in shopping Trump? He looks ridiculous all by himself already.

Those shopped legs are comedic immaculation, though. 

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My brother tipped me on the new Defeated Sanity, need to check out. 

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Dug out the old sewing machine and DIY'ed a few. Tweaked the measurements slightly and arrived at perfection. 

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Somebody change his diapers now that his mind has been changed.

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6 hours ago, Gocab said:

what's the tldr, I'm not nearly invested enough to read all that.

my guess:

1. for the lulz 

2. ?????

3. BAD PEEPL

1. The Something Awful forums ignited a form of collaborative, geeky in-jokes in the late 90s .
2. This type of free form riffing developed into a psychedelic, baroque art form at 4chan a few years later, and went worldwide in the form of memes.
3.  Some of those jokes transitioned from the subforum /b ("random") - where they were understood as fiction - to /pol ("politics") - where they were taken at face value and developed into a collective cult psychosis.
4. 4chan was moderated relatively successfully and all the creeps/pedos/nazis/psychos went on to 8chan and 8kun, where the collective psychosis found even more fertile ground.

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4 hours ago, dingformung said:

fascism

Give the guy a chance.

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What a loser, I have never had anyone violate an NDA on me.

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Wow. 

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You're supposed to watch the dryer from the outside, you've all gone loopy.