he's not wrong!
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 June 2015 05:13 (eight years ago) link
it's Lefsetz vs. the Apple Watch, i'm incapable of picking a side to be on tbh
― trap steen (some dude), Monday, 8 June 2015 06:59 (eight years ago) link
I’m going to print Musk’s explanation of the Hyperloop below, because although it seems like science fiction on the surface, once you get into the details it seems…possible. Then again, I’m just an arts guy and don’t know much about science. But I remember the sixties, when John Glenn orbited the Earth and we were all enthralled and inspired by science.
i don't know much about science, but i remember the sixties.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 8 June 2015 08:51 (eight years ago) link
I don't know much about science but I'm aware it exists and it can do some pretty cool shit like in that movie The Right Stuff.
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 8 June 2015 10:31 (eight years ago) link
Lefsetz otm
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 11 June 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
Or to quote the bard of the Hollywood Hills, “we haven’t had that spirit here since 1969.”
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 22 June 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
Hahah talk about making yourself look good:
I don’t know what went through Taylor Swift’s mind. Notice, she didn’t weigh in immediately, this indie/nonpayment for three months story has been percolating for a week. But once she digested the issues she said her piece. In other words, you don’t have to shoot from the hip. But if you’re waiting for every fact to come in, to test the wind to see what public opinion is, if you’re more worried about your career than what’s right, you’re limited.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 June 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
how dare she digest the issues.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 June 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
i think tay-tay's singular talent is that she can digest WHILE shooting from the hip. she's like a point-and-shoot camera, except she's digest-and-shoot.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 22 June 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
there's an album cover for you
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 June 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
I can't wait for the "Mean" sequel.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 22 June 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
Enjoying Lefsetz on tech more than Lefsetz on music.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link
do you not know a lot about tech then? this isn't meant as an insult, just that his bloviating is pretty ill-informed across the board
― maura, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
I just like him taking home gadgets and staying up late writing about them. Hoping he does a Dyson vacuum cleaner next, or a coffee maker.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
I wanna hear the Lef pontificate on his Ninja blending system.
― errant flynn, Thursday, 9 July 2015 04:39 (eight years ago) link
Possessions mean less as you age. You can’t take them with you. Furthermore, we’re evolving into a no possessions era. One in which you can rent a ride and you don’t even have to own a car. Experiences are everything.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 10 July 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link
Have you ever heard of Bob Moses? Certainly not I. Wasn’t he a basketball player, or a jazzer? But his track “Talk” reminds you of the Beatles testing limits in 1966, only the Beatles were there first, so this is not a brand new sound, but it is very good, but how can it compete in a world where stuff is hyped ad infinitum, like Ms. Musgraves and Jamie xx.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 10 July 2015 00:24 (eight years ago) link
And I certainly don’t believe in Donald Trump. But a lot of people do, the same way we believed in the Beatles.
― Position Position, Monday, 20 July 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Apocalypse
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 10 August 2015 04:17 (eight years ago) link
In a broken recorded music world whose retardation rests squarely on the shoulders of Taylor Swift, David Byrne and the rest of the music-making agitators who believe they’re just not getting a fair deal. These vocal players, many of them with anemic fanbases to begin with, have done an incredible job of turning off customers. If it were 1981, they’d be responsible for an I DON’T WANT MY MTV! campaign.
um...
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Monday, 10 August 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
never let facts get in the way of making a lefsetz point
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 10 August 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
i'm trying to imagine what would have to happen for me to find myself railing against "agitators"
― da croupier, Monday, 10 August 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
"This is the same media that keeps telling us Trump’s campaign is history when the polls ultimately tell us otherwise. Turns out the media is out of touch, a fourth estate in love with its own power."
for someone who doesn't believe in donald trump this guy sure fawns over him a lot
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Monday, 10 August 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure the only thing that has rested squarely on byrne's shoulder over the last decade or so is the lack of a talking heads reunion tour
― da croupier, Monday, 10 August 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link
not that byrne hasn't shared some food for thought but imo anybody who'd bother to read an op-ed about the music industry isn't about to stop consuming its wares any time soon
― da croupier, Monday, 10 August 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
otm, he is very much preaching to the choir although he has a strong niche
lefsetz getting mad at david byrne's corner of the music/arts world is very much him being threatened by any non-lefsetz opinions even existing
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 10 August 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
At best we can argue stars are built on YouTube. Like PSY.
Yeah, you can't get away from that guy. Curse you, YouTube!
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 10 August 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link
It's true though, isn't it? Spotify etc. hardly important players compared to youtube? Video killed the radio star etc.
― niels, Monday, 10 August 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
I'm clearly not getting why this Lefsetz is such a sucker, polemics aside his points seem as valid as so many others.
― niels, Monday, 10 August 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
come to think of it, did the music video outlive the album in the digital age? do more people know what taylor swift looks like in the Shake It Off video than can mention an album cut from 1989?
― niels, Monday, 10 August 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
― niels, Monday, August 10, 2015 10:26 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
keep reading!
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 August 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
Thought of this though in the context of The Golden age of Internet comes to a close?, and how Facebook/Spotify/Tidal etc. aren't platforms where individual artists emerge out of nowhere.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 10 August 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
Seems weird to have a go at Apple Music for not breaking any acts in it's less than ten weeks in existence, when YouTube has had over ten years.
― michaellambert, Monday, 10 August 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
He called John Oliver the "thinking man's Donald Trump" today.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 August 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
no seriously who is bob lefetz
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Thursday, 20 August 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
But the youth have lost their way. Growing up in a challenged economy they’ve paid fealty to the almighty dollar. There’s no mystery why rap videos feature Benzes and country lyrics contain alcohol brand names. Because these empty suits were brought up in an era where speaking truth to power was anathema, in other words, we haven’t had that hip-hop spirit here since 1999.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 21 August 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
that has to be peak Lefsetz
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 21 August 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
they say two thousand zero zero, passion's over. oops, out of time.
― da croupier, Friday, 21 August 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
it's a shame kendrick is more focused on brands and less on politics than late 90s puff daddy was
― balls, Friday, 21 August 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
is that the man on the Taylor Swift song? she has some opinions on the industry
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 21 August 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link
First there’s the self-immolation. Akin to the rock stars of yore. “I’ll do what I want to and bear the brunt of the consequences.” You’re supposed to bow to the powers-that-be and apologize. Instead Trump doubles-down.Then there’s the burning of cash. The loss of “The Apprentice” and beauty pageant telecasts. No one does this. As Taylor Swift invites critics to her house and bakes cookies for nobodies, the Donald is out pissing people off. We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969, and it’s truly refreshing
Then there’s the burning of cash. The loss of “The Apprentice” and beauty pageant telecasts. No one does this. As Taylor Swift invites critics to her house and bakes cookies for nobodies, the Donald is out pissing people off. We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969, and it’s truly refreshing
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 28 August 2015 02:17 (eight years ago) link
I remember the old days. When we all rushed to the movie theatre so we could be part of the public conversation. Can you say “Pulp Fiction”? But then films, like Viacom, became so money-driven, so inane, that adults stopped going. And now it turns out kids are burned out on the superhero flicks, and although I’d like to dig deeper into the failure of Hollywood, its eclipse by television, my only point is that films are no longer dominant. They come and go in weeks at most. Next!
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 28 August 2015 02:39 (eight years ago) link
beautiful formal gamesmanship there imo, with "next!" being both the depraved modern audience demanding the new ephemera and lefsetz's restless eye turning on another phenomenon to limn
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 28 August 2015 02:42 (eight years ago) link
In a nation where you have to get someone to say yes before you can have sex on a college campus
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 28 August 2015 02:44 (eight years ago) link
Eazy you made that one up. tell me you made that one up
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 28 August 2015 02:47 (eight years ago) link
this is major lefsetz. the most essential post in ages.
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 28 August 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
it covers everything.
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 28 August 2015 02:51 (eight years ago) link
Düder's getting more mileage out of the "'69" than the Donster at this point.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 August 2015 03:58 (eight years ago) link
how did we miss this
http://shutuplefsetz.tumblr.com/
― sleeve, Friday, 28 August 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
haha if anyone wants to be added to that tumblr's contributor list lmk
― maura, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link