who is Bob Lefsetz?

Eazy you made that one up. tell me you made that one up

this is major lefsetz. the most essential post in ages.

it covers everything.

Düder's getting more mileage out of the "'69" than the Donster at this point.

how did we miss this

http://shutuplefsetz.tumblr.com/

haha if anyone wants to be added to that tumblr's contributor list lmk

The public is disenchanted with politics and is following Donald Trump and you think we believe in One Republic, we the people who buy Apple products?

Make me puke.

Once again, a rudderless company where the design and fashion heads have too much pull. New Watch bands and colors? How about better functionality? I returned mine, it sucks.

Wowsers:http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2015/08/30/keith-richards-solo-album/

Once again, the media masters are out of the loop. That’s this year’s story, not has-been rocker drops an album nobody cares about, but how the press could get it so wrong, believing we actually care. Donald Trump wipes away convention, shows that the people have a brain, but in entertainment coverage it’s the same as it ever was. But now there’s even more of it. Over and over again I hear Keith Richards has a new album… AND I DON’T CARE!

it's true the people only have one brain

I would love to hear those posts read in the voice of Travis Bickle.

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, August 10, 2015 10:51 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn should have posted that an hour and 17 minutes later

Last I looked it was called the MUSIC business! Not the hype business.

Last I looked it was called the MUSIC business! Not the Adam and Steve business.

First they came for the CDs.

Then they came for the cable.

So, so long not only record stores, but discs of all kinds. You love vinyl, great, I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to.

So long meaningless sales reports in the media. They’re gonna switch completely to streaming as soon as “Billboard” does, which will be a step too late, but is in the offing.

So long front-loading your publicity. If you can’t get people to listen over time, if your album has got no legs, you’re better off not putting it out. People know whether it’s a dud in a day. And no one is fooled by your scorched earth publicity campaign, they’re actually turned-off! The hip-hop and R&B stars lead with days worth of advance publicity, if they employ any at all!

How could they get it so right?

Because they’re in touch with the street, and they know that if you’re not busy being born…

You’re busy dying.

http://images.rapgenius.com/67a313285fceea6020e8811774b36e7a.600x452x1.jpg

Ted Gioia is the new Bob Lefsetz. Here's a talk he gave called "The Crisis In Music" (quotes his):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NT-fbu4b40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xOK9ETlhRs

ouTube and Spotify freemium are cheaper. And no one's using Rdio, not to mention Rhapsody and Apple Music... HA!

I’ve been a victim of internet hate. Sometimes private, sometime public. Sometimes e-mail, sometimes on Twitter and other social networks, as well as nooks and crannies all over the web.

My crime?

Having an opinion and a status those complaining do not.

I won’t say I’m powerless against the online terrorists. I’ve learned you can conquer them. By attacking them individually. By hitting them where they live. Criticizing their little lives, getting personal. They don’t like the light shined upon them. If you make it about them, as opposed to the content, they freak.

Which is why I’m all in favor of striking in the middle of the night, when the enemy is unprepared. That’s what the Israelis do.

Root out ISIS. And root out spam and online hate while you’re at it.

just when you think he can't go any higher, he levels up

no doubt the man is a miracle

Which is why I’m all in favor of striking in the middle of the night, when the enemy is unprepared. That’s what the Israelis do.
damn, what does this mean?! midnight tweet storms!? please lesfetz don't hurt em

His shtick is deathless...some pearls from his Allen Toussaint tribute:

I bought “Dixie Chicken” because of incredible reviews. And when I broke the shrinkwrap and dropped it on the turntable…I didn’t understand it, not at all. But I kept playing it, BECAUSE I PAID FOR IT! That’s what’s different from today, music was scarce, we didn’t have much of it, and when we made an investment, we wrung it for everything it was worth.

FORTUNE TELLER
The Rolling Stones

This is so fresh, so magical, such a window back to the midsixties, it makes you want to jet back there right now, when you had to leave the house to feel the music in you. This is so simple in a way so much of today’s music is so complicated. Without comping and additional tracks there’s an honesty and a raw humanity that you can only marvel at. And the irony is this is exactly what the Stones have sold on tour, then and now. You go to see them and they’re rough, but then they lock on and your jaw falls open. Because it’s about catching lightning in a bottle as opposed to perfecting an image and sound for a public who you thinks wants it but doesn’t. People want truth, reflected back to them, never forget it.

...and my new d/n

People want truth and three chords!

kind of feel like truth is the opposite of what i want

Maybe just some truth?

i can't handle the truth!

as far as I can tell his argument is "we need to solve income inequality so the plebes can stop calling me a big fat meanie. also, ISIS?"

also this -- "I won’t say I’m powerless against the online terrorists. I’ve learned you can conquer them. By attacking them individually. By hitting them where they live. Criticizing their little lives, getting personal. They don’t like the light shined upon them. If you make it about them, as opposed to the content, they freak." -- comes perilously close to endorsing doxxing of, idk, taylor swift fans

perilously close to endorsing doxxing of, idk, taylor swift fans

i think that goes beyond "perilously close." i think it's literally what he's suggesting.

yeah like I try very hard to be non-bombastic (no, really), but I defy anyone to produce a reading of this that is not completely horrifying

Brett Leve. A twentysomething who accosted me at Coachella and told me his organization was buying a ski area. Little did he know downhill sliding was my passion. So, when they invited me to go to their digs in Eden, Utah, to partake of the snow at their newly-purchased Powder Mountain, I went.

And was stunned at the caliber of person.

that guy seems like a dick.

A twentysomething who accosted me at Coachella and told me his organization was buying a ski area.

^^^ late woody allen character description btw

Dude is frothing mad at Adele. Holy shit.

Even car companies are hipper than you, they’re leaving CD drives out of their vehicles. My new computer has no disk drive, even though I bought it a year ago and it’s state of the art.

There’s plenty of money if you get mindshare. But you want to give up mindshare?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQJ7QVDsi9Q

http://www.legalleadersblog.com/files/2013/04/minds_sharing_ideas_1600_clr_8481-v2.png

http://www.startrek.com/legacy_media/images/200303/tos-039-the-mirror-spock-does/320x240.jpg

Oh wow, that Adele piece is seriously fucking ignorant. How dare one of the biggest selling artists of the decade, one of the last major performers whose fans are actually willing en masse to invest in a CD, LP or full album download, maker of one of the handful of genuine "Event Albums" of the year, elect to not go to a streaming platform right away!

I was inundated with e-mail about this act Adele. At first listen I loved her, then when I downloaded all the tracks I realized that she was just a bit too jazzy for me. But I applaud where she’s coming from. But although she’s a smash in the U.K., I seriously doubt she can make it big here in America. Because she’s FAT!

feb. 21, 2008

h/t digital music news

brutal, what a huge piece of shit idiot

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Bob_Lefsetz_CMW_2009.jpg

First and foremost, mindshare. It’s nearly impossible to get in today’s cluttered, cacophonous society. Used to be you got on radio and then MTV and you reached everybody. Now, except for Adele herself, no one can do this. Quick, sing a 1D song! You can’t, but they just won big on the AMAs. And you can pooh-pooh that awards show, or you can just admit that music has changed. It’s not that you’re old, it’s just that the biggest acts are niche and if you’re not one of them, god help you in making a living.

haha no just kidding you're old

So I was wondering what the heck this one was after these past few days of him being rightly trashed.

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2015/11/25/broken-together/

And...I don't know, it's like a combination of nakedly confessional fucking up in a post-divorce/midlife crisis way that somehow is a big build-up to saying this towards the end:

"That’s the name of the song, “Broken Together.” It’s by Christian rock band Casting Crowns, whose name I knew but whose music I was unfamiliar with."

But seriously, this essay is like Emo Mitch Albom run rampant. Which should say something.