Accountability in Music • Page 952

First, I hate this news publication. UK gossip mags are all horrendous.

Next, I hate Kiedis so much. I read his book as a 15 year old girl, and it made me think age gap relationships were normal because I loved the RHCP and his rockstar persona so much. Over a decade later, I realize how fucking gross he is. How the hell can he be old enough to be my grandfather but his girlfriends are younger than me?

 

Disturbed Just Damaged Michael Jordan’s Legacy

 

cmon gang let's hold disturbed accountable

 

For?

 

Autographing bombs to be used on Palestinians?

 

Carry on then.

 

Jesus Christ, fuck this guy.

 

His “legal issues” section on Wiki is a wild ride, lots of airline related incidents

 

It’s amazing that he still gets booked at places and people show up.

 

Like, I used to be on the side of "hope he gets his shit together" and for a while it looked like he was making a real effort to do it, but at this point, fuck him.

 

Bit of a change from our usual subject matter, and a rare bit of cool news: Neil Young drops dynamic ticket pricing, inspired in part by Robert Smith's example.

“My management and agent have always tried to cover my back on the road, getting me the best deals they could. They have tried to protect me and the fans from scalpers who buy the best tickets and resell them at huge increases for their own profits,” the legendary singer-songwriter continued. “Ticketmaster’s high-priced Platinum tickets were introduced to the areas where scalpers were buying the most tickets for resale. The money went to me. That did not feel right. Very soon, Platinum tickets will no longer be available for my shows. I have decided to let the people work this out. Buy aggressively when the tickets come out or tickets will cost a lot more in a secondary market….”

 

I mean, that’s great but it was just scalping by the artist instead of a reseller. Good that he noticed this when he’s probably ready to announce a retirement tour.

 

"Scalping" by an artist is just selling tickets I think

 

Someone say scalping?

 

Are we okay with platinum tickets and dynamic pricing as long as the money goes to the artist?

 

to me it's the lack of transparency that has always been the real issue. clearly tickets have long been underpriced, and I'd be fine with whatever was done to accomplish capturing more of the profits from secondary, just make it comprehensible and remove the extreme element of surprise from what prices will actually end up being.

 

It looks like Kanye self-released an in-progess version of his new album last night on X that was riddled with AI and got virtually no attention on his subreddit, I'm talking less than 50 comments night of, and folks, we love to see it. I know he will always have a following and facist supporters but the dude has definitely nuked a major portion of his fanbase

 

when has his music not been a work in progress, lol? even before his embrace of fascism, his work has consistently been unfinished

 

Honestly, if he weren’t so dreadful as a basic human being, I’d find some of his weird half assed tinkering almost charming, lol. I remember having a soft spot for Life of Pablo or whatever in spite of rough lyrics. Sort of the musical equivalent of late career Frank Miller (a fraught, at times hateful artist who seems chill compared to Ye).

Him using AI is a perfect cherry on top for his whole Nazi gimmick.

 

People throwing around the r-slur in 2025 deserve something that will get me banned on here if I say it. Sucks shit that this all is where Kanye is at.

 

Probably not

 

super well adjusted and rational take

(don't misconstrue this, fuck kanye west)

 

I promise we don't have to argue about whether Kanye West deserves to be alive or not again

we can all just agree he's irredeemable and leave it at that