who is Bob Lefsetz?

If only PS Hoffman were still with us...

I could see an always sunny sort of thing working

"You know who was there? Students. Girls. Wanna get laid? Go to a One Direction concert."

"..."

"What?"

"...that's kind of weird man"

"I'm just saying, I was the lone male in a sea of females. Prepubescent females!"

but recently someone I knew (a generally smart guy) posted one of his columns on facebook saying: "lots to think about in the latest lesfetz" as though bob is some wise sage

― tylerw, Tuesday, February 23, 2016 12:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah a year ago someone was like "lefsetz nails it again" and i was just like wtf
but yeah this thread makes me think everything thinks of him as a total fraud like you said

but because he picked one big hit,

Wait, what hit did he pick? Either I never learned this or I'm forgetting.

That was a fictional example - as far as I know Lefsetz was only in the business for a couple of years.

yeah it's unclear where lefsetz's cachet comes from. patter i guess.

talent.

tellin it like it IS, man!

the dude isn't afraid of anything! except women! and young people! and death!

Just re-read that WIRED article fron a few years back. Forgot that he was fired from his industry job for arguing with Blackie Lawless about which W.A.S.P. single to release.

Bob Lefsetz (born April 22, 1953) is an American music industry analyst and critic, and author of the email newsletter and blog, the Lefsetz Letter. The newsletter has tens of thousands of subscribers.[1][2] On April 2, 2013, Variety Magazine announced that Lefsetz will be writing a column for its weekly print edition and its website.[3]

Themes explored in the Lefsetz Letter include:

The diminishing role of the major record labels in current recorded music and corresponding increasing influence and importance of grassroots artist activities such as live performances and direct online relationships with fans.
The decline of CD sales as alternate online music services such as iTunes continue to flourish.

The prevalence of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing as the primary source of digital music distribution.

The need for a legitimate and licensed Peer-to-Peer or similar distribution service to facilitate the next working business model for the music industry.

Lefsetz's personal reflections on songs, songwriters, bands and industry insiders that have affected his unique and independent outlook of the music industry.

Lefsetz's personal observations on a wide range of topics, including reflections on his personal life.

""Fuck Like a Beast" is gonna be YUGE!"

In 2007, Lefsetz and Kid Rock engaged in an email feud but have since reconciled.[5][6][7]

You try to make a name for yourself with half ass opinions based on everyone who is actually trying to do something in music. Yet you do NOTHING but talk. See you on the streets you punk ass mother fucker!!!

Kid Rock

kid rock OTM

And Robert Plant looks like a poof. A weakling who couldn’t get David Bowie in bed.

why oh why did I google that to see if it was a real quote?

Tempting to write a two-character play: Rock/Lefsetz.

There's a joke circulating on Twitter that HBO should do a series called "MP3"

Said joke being by our own s1ocki.

http://www.idolator.com/373018/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-bob-lefsetz-but-were-afraid-to-ask-because-all-caps-comes-off-like-yelling

From 2008

i LIVED it mannnnnn

"Not Found

The requested URL /wordpress/2016/02/22/kesha-vs-dr-luke/ was not found on this server."

I couldn't connect with Lefsetz.com all day yesterday.

It seems like there are currently no archives.

however

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:07cXwpHm07YJ:lefsetz.com/wordpress/2016/02/22/kesha-vs-dr-luke/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

We haven't had that kind of outage here since 1969.

lol why was i publishing things at 3:15 am. 2008 was weird

CortneyH • 8 years ago
A marginally talented, ultra-entitled, elitist, quasi-employed dude who mooches off a rich lady? If his letter writing career doesn't pan out, he could always move to Portland or Brooklyn and front an indie rock band.

i'd read that article before i thought but never registered that patient interlocutor "felice" is henry mancini's daughter!

lefsetz 11 march 2016 on keith emerson:

Take that all you adolescents who believe you deserve attention even though you’ve put more time into trumpeting your efforts on social media than actually practicing your instrument.

lefsetz 14 march 2016 on "getting our attention:"

From day one, you should be collecting e-mail addresses and building up a social media following. This is the first line of aggression

I'll be fine without Lefsetz's attention.

Guy's rambling now:

But it is catchy. And the words are not meaningless. Lukas Graham is beating the oldsters at their own game. He knows it’s the track, not the hype. And that to get people’s attention you’ve got to speak your truth in a way that we can be hooked immediately to the point we want to hear your track again and again.

either rambling or just using the Lefsetz Insta-Column Generator app.

I had a crush on a girl for two years. Back at the turn of the century. She’d send me e-mail, I’d respond and receive nothing in return. Was she just not interested? She was so present, so intimate when we saw each other face to face. I realized she was an inveterate social climber, flawed in more way than one, but when I see her name in my inbox my heart still skips a beat.

breaking news here: inveterate social climbers express their inveterate social climbiness by sending emails to bob lefsetz.

fell in love with a spambot

All he had to do was transfer $5 million to a Nigerian Spotify account

I was just discussing this with my shrink today, I don’t like to compete. If everybody else wants it, I don’t even go after it. If anybody else is interested in her I won’t make a move. I’m inured to losing. The brass ring has eluded me. I don’t feel capable, I don’t feel desirous…but none of this undercuts the twisting, turning feeling eating up my insides.

:(

all that negging on Adele didn't pay off and she's happy now

haha lukas graham is the perfect artist for ol fake deep bob

"how come you don't strip no more?" -lefsetz

I bet his browser history is a fuckin nightmare

Oliver's 22 minute take-down of Trump drew 22 million views on YouTube. (https://goo.gl/Jp7SgF ) While we make it ever shorter, more bite-sized, with more hooks, Oliver is taking the viewers on a journey, thrilling them along the way. "Whipping Post," indeed.

irl lol

this "disruption" post is just a dropped pile of neolib oblique strategies

Enterprise topples when it does its job too well.

Major corporations ran from hip-hop, now they embrace it.

You don’t start outside as a supernova, you evolve there, via trial and error.

Who will sacrifice themselves for the good of today’s music industry?

An individual has incredible power. A scene can be monolithic.

It will happen.

Now the focus is on art.

Can today’s majors fold?

Because it happened before, many times.

Like I said, the forebears will probably get screwed. But when the leader of a new sound breaks down the walls, a lot of players could come through.

Kind of like in EDM.

It’s only a matter of getting started.

And then...

But it will.

That first line in his Springsteen live review that he just posted...

lol
also this which sounds like a pretty terrible 1st date
And on my first date with my ex-wife I played “Candy’s Room” at full blast.

Here’s where I whip out my pedigree.

Hey Lefsetz, can you talk more about Robin, because she sound interesting...

she had big boobs, the rest is just dust in the wind

We haven't had those boobs here since 1969...

if she had played her cards right, she could've been boobs lefsetz