who is Bob Lefsetz?

Can’t miss a call from his ski guy, those 118mm powders don’t stay on the showroom floor long, at least not in greater Los Angeles

What these wankers don’t realize is THOSE PHONES ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED!

I am what they call a power user. And it’s fine if you’re not, but don’t confuse your needs with mine. You may not need the latest features, but I do. Don’t judge me. Because there’s plenty of stuff you’ve got that I don’t need at all.

^^^ great lyrics

_I am what they call a power user._

If white lives truly matter, why is Morgan Wallen still a pariah and Kanye West gets a pass?

Can I forgive Kanye West for his anti-Semitic comments? Of course I can, BECAUSE HE'S MENTALLY ILL!

I've met Morgan Wallen. Talk to him, he's a soft guy with a brain who does not scream racism

really a doozy of a letter, might finally be the train wreck that i can look away from

Isn't Wallen still one of the biggest stars in country?

He was one of the big headliners at the recent iHeartRadio fest, hardly seems blacklisted to me

does Bob actually attend or read anything that isn’t aimed directly at industry types

I've met Morgan Wallen. Talk racism to him, he's a guy with a soft brain who does not scream

he doesn’t read anything he can’t skim while checking his phone on a chairlift

Talk to him, he's a soft guy with a brain who does not scream THOSE PHONES ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED!

If white lives truly matter, why is Morgan Wallen still a pariah and Kanye West gets a pass?

If anything, it's the exact opposite

WHITE LIVES ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED!

Don Henley knew this back in 1976.

Well, yeah.

Check the Spotify Top 50, there's not a SINGLE Beyonce song! Not one!

ok but if you look at the spotify top albums chart, there she is at #5. and since there isn’t a big single buoying the album, isn’t that an indication that people are listening to the whole album and listening often?

can always count on this fucker to draw the dumbest conclusion from any piece of data presented to him

I just want to say I've grown to really resent -- for all that it was in jest -- the question at the end of the opening post to this thread all those years ago. Fate worse than death, to be even slightly like this clown.

ha ha aw :(

True, the early bird does catch the worm, but are you eating worms?

Nobody likes me

incredible

whomst among us is not, in a certain sense, bob lefsetz?

He's always defending Ticketmaster and asserting big artists can tell them to do things differently

I’d even proffer at this late date if Kim Carnes appeared on the Super Bowl more people would know her big hit song than those of Rihanna.

industry-adjacent boomers

the only audience that matters

KIM CARNES?

idk why i'm still surprised at this doofus, but what an odd reference.

also yeah, i'm playing the race card: of course ol leffy would prefer a nice h`white lady.

I’ll expose you, when I snow you
Offer feed with the crumbs I throw you
I’m ferocious and I sell just what it
Takes to make your cheeks blush
Bitch better have my money

I'm def of the Lefsetz school of "No one knows what's going on in music anymore" but "Umbrella" is a huge, omnipresent fucking song

Like, in the Kim Carnes era there was like one of those songs every week. In the Rihanna era there's maybe two a year if you're lucky. But "Umbrella" is assuredly one of them!

rihanna has enough hits that anyone who has been to a bar or restaurant or grocery store in the past fifteen years will have heard a few of them

> but what an odd reference.

Really odd! But now I'm noticing a mild resemblance between Rhianna and Bette Davis.

Tommy Tutone is more popular than Rhianna it's science

He says he doesn’t listen to pop radio, just his fave Sirius XM stations; he says he doesn’t surf for new music; and apparently must just get his groceries delivered.

if he wanted to be topical, should've gone with Nena

xp and of course he assumes that everyone else in the world is just like him

jt’s not like 1981’s 70-year-olds would have been familiar with “Bette Davis Eyes”

In 1981 they had Helen O’connell in the halftime show, so maybe Lefs has a point

I know I can’t say “rape and pillage” anymore

The Lefsetz letter--that's where I'm a Viking!

Talk to a millennial, ask them what is hot. Chances are they'll mention a TikTokker or YouTube influencer you've never heard of.

sir, millennials are pushing 40

"hey youngster, what's hot?"

Millennial: "I'll ask my kid."

the funny thing is a lot of the "boring suburban parents" i know are more plugged into youth culture than a lot of cool culture writers just because they have multiple teens in their house

lefsetz makes more sense once you realize he's writing for people pushing 70

(thinks of people i know pushing 70)

no, this doesn't help i'm still struggling =/

It's for 70 year olds who keep up with the new bands--you know, like R.E.M.