Accountability in Music • Page 355

At least the 2010s brought us the demise of this. Thank the lord.

 

Thought you all might like this given the conversation lately...

Stolen from Imgur

 

All for using LeVar instead, that’s way better

 

Brand New allegedly being removed from Spotify Wrapped lists

They should do this for every band with allegations though. My friend had Jank on her Spotify end of the year list, and although she just had no idea about what happened, it’s still disappointing to see.

 

apparently* brand new has been blacklisted from spotify wrapped lists but other problematic artists (xxxtentaciton, drake, etc.) have not been. any guesses as to why? maybe those other guys just have more influence being leveraged by major labels?

*source: various claims from twitter randos

 

Very small thing but kinda cool to see Spotify removing Brand New from their recaps. Be cooler if they did it for other artists like this but hey. It’s something?

 

Hahahaha great timing everyone

 

If they're leaving all these other artists on the lists it may just be a bug because of the name of the band which they may not have accounted for. To me this reads as a coding error or the band asking to be cut out and not Spotify preemptively doing it.

(Kinda weird seeing so many people showing their asses on twitter about it, but that's another thing altogether.)

 

This feels right actually, I think I saw Spanish Love Songs talking about how their band name made it so they weren’t counted.

 

yeah I saw a list with Burzum on it lol so I'm guessing they didn't single brand new out for being especially heinous or anything. their name being tricky seems the most likely reason.

 

Yeah it would be a weird look to remove Brand New but promote XXX.

 

Yeah weird if its just them, lot of artists should be taken off but still show up. Another weird half measure of accountability from Spotify.

 

I believe XXX was the main artist for Spotify bringing back the artists that they had originally blacklisted. TDE threatened to pull their entire catalog if they didn't. So they're not going to touch him unless they're willing to lost a decent amount of listens.

But I agree with Jason that this seems like a coding error.

 

Liam Payne’s “Both Ways” Accused Of Fetishizing Bisexuality: Tweets – Hollywood Life

 

lol

edit: the more I find out about the context of the actual quotes and article, the more my fucking blood boils that this queerty “article” exists, honestly disgraceful af.

 

Had no idea about the JANK stuff. I’ve been searching for a copy of Awkward Pop Songs on vinyl for months, but I’m going to discontinue that search.

 

I love how people were complaining about the Brand New stuff. Imagine being upset about not being outed as a current listener of a band whose figurehead groomed and solicited nudes from minors.

 

There’s nothing to be “outed” as. Your implication is that Brand New fans should somehow be embarrassed for adoring the band simply due to Jesse’s misconduct. That’s simply not how it works. If anything, I reckon they’d be more proud of enjoying such critically acclaimed music.

 

Oh no

 

I, for one, am definitely proud of enjoying such critically acclaimed music. Very proud.

 

I often walk around town wearing a shirt of critically-acclaimed actor Kevin Spacey. People threaten to kick my ass, but they should be proud I have such good taste.

 

Chorus dot fm user DrowntheWorkforce with the worst take of the year? I for one am shocked.