i legitimately think Christmas music should be regulated. actually i think all radio music should be regulated for the saje of employees everywhere and I'm not joking
there should be designated stations that play the top 10 over and over, for people driving short distances, and designated stations that cannot play the same song more than twice in a 24 hour period, for people working in retail and fast food. and it should be a punishable labor violation for any manager to play a top 10 station for more than an hour in the workplace.
don't remember if i posted this but you know how ai bros think there's an accessibility problem in music that ai can solve. and people are all like no pick up a guitar and bash through it. well there is an accessibility problem in music. and it's the inability to do anything less than bash through a whole song.
It's the fact that "making music" is only fully respected when it's fully original and fully realized. our cultural fetishization of idea ownership - copyright, both legal and social - prevents us from understanding derivative works as worthwhile, and our perception of music as a skill (as opposed to a behavior) creates in us also the perception of a skill floor, and prevents us from understanding works below it as worthwhile.
in short, it's the belief that to make music means to make something good out of nothing. that is the goal, and that is what AI allows* - a straight dome to page transfer of new ideas - and what's more, to the average beginner, that is the way things are. a beginner in our society sees sublime creation and doesn't understand the sheer lack of originality on display, like how a beginner artist might think their favorite artist doesn't use references. and why don't they? because any musician who admits "i got most of this chord progression from this song" is liable to get sued.
good music is not created from nothing.** it's created as part of a conversation, the grand group chat we've had as music-making humans since we grew out of the ground. but the knowledge that all of it is inspired by all the rest is a ladder that's been pulled up by record executives*** in pursuit of sole ownership and profits - and after all, under capitalism, any idea that's genuinely yours is worthless to you unless it has your name on it - and now we as a society have little room to process anything that makes itself clearly a response. remixes go out under the original artist's name, vaporwave is cheating, you know the drill.
that's where the inaccessibility is. and that's the solution, too, to ditch those perceptions of worthiness and originality and sublime creation, and instead just to steal someone else's work and make it your own. i promise you it's worth the time.
my favorite analogy for the whole thing comes from John Oswald. he said that all of our culture, our art, our music, is paraded in front of us every day - that some may join the parade, most of us may not - but that we all at least can take our own little snapshots. John Oswald was the creator of a genre called plunderphonics.
this post definitely got away from me and took forever on mobile but those are essentially my thoughts. footnotes below the cut
*I'm not interested in whether AI music is inherently bad or whatever. that's not what I'm discussing and you're not gonna convince me about it because i don't care. i already don't use the stuff. don't bring it up.
**outsider music exists but is the exception.
***if i may get conspiratorial for a moment, i might hypothesize that the average listener's belief in originality might be deliberately stoked to fuel their resulting belief that they couldn't truly do the same thing that their heroes do, thus keeping them buying. i don't genuinely believe any record exec is evil enough to have thought of this, but i sure doubt they would change their ways to avoid it.
bonus footnote: AI bros are all capitalists anyway and won't respect anything that doesn't put dollar signs in their eyes. i realize this post will not convince them.
contrary to popular belief, it's actually completely reasonable and fine to hate a song just because it's popular. this is due to the fact that when a song gets popular enough they play it non-stop at your place of employment
contrary to popular belief, it's actually completely reasonable and fine to hate a song just because it's popular. this is due to the fact that when a song gets popular enough they play it non-stop at your place of employment
On this day one year ago, I was fired from Crumbl Cookies because my grandfather suddenly died and I cried when I found out and was on the clock. They make you sign a waiver to not talk about the recipes that lasts one year after your termination. Well guess what babes. That day, is today. RIP Nanu, you’ve been missed. But for anyone who likes the Chocolate Chip Cookies or the Iced Sugar Cookies, check out the recipes in the links. Feel free to ask about other recipes, it’s been a year but some things are just reskinned versions of these lol. Good Luck and Happy Baking.
Edit: Here is a Master List of all the recipes I have been able to remember thus far; I will be updating it as I am able!
i have written custody plans for labrador retrievers more complex than i have for children. i went to four years of undergrad, three years of law school, and sat for the bar exam to write up custody exchange provisions for dogs with hyphonated last names
my clients are paying $295 an hour for me to go to court and litigate who makes veterinary decisions for Chuckles the Goldfish and theres literally nothing i can do to stop them
