Here’s a pretty famous quote from the philosopher Karl Popper that sums it all up:

But she’s so tiny....

I am filled with such rage. At my high school, both the principal and assistant principal are on the list of credibly accused abusive deviant priests. They are both dead now. It is horrible to know now that one of my classmates was a victim. These two priests were despicable. And they revelled in it.

Noooo NOOOOO NOOOOOO!! I know you’re a baller and a poet, a writer and destined for greatness (while being off the market & married to a doctor!) but I can’t handle change right now! So stop, call it off, come back and keep The Root’s continuity! I haven’t even read your post but I’m upset now for the rest of the…

Oh absolutely re: the streaming services. The public in general, and definitely her fans, are so squarely on her side that it’s a no-brainer.

This feels more like some misogyny at play. “The little girl won’t fight us!” The back catalog was a dead asset the minute Taylor said she was going to re-record them. The leverage she gained with the streaming services might have them promoting her new versions over the originals. That’s truly going to hit the bottom…

I doubt she had much of a choice if she wanted a major label contract. This arrangement is not at all uncommon, The Beatles being the most famous example. But often once an artist hits it huge and has money of their own, if the label wants to sell then they sell it to that artist. Stiff-arming Swift was the original…

I work in finance and deal with private equity groups all the time. The fact that one would make a purchase of this magnitude without knowing conclusively that she wouldn’t re-record the same damn songs is mind-boggling. The amount of due diligence involved in selling a company to a private equity group is usually…

That’s also a good route to being a starving artist. 

I nearly threw up when I read the quote that starts “To extract maximum value from music assets...”

I have a friend who listens to basically nothing but Scandinavian black metal and hard bop jazz (I know, right), and he thinks this is the most badass move since Prince decided to no longer be Prince in order to screw his former label. Respect.

The path to fame and super stardom is far more difficult without a major record label. Most record labels will not sign a new unknown artist without ownership rights over the music said artist releases under them. And once you sign it is very difficult to get out of contracts early (and if you do you still don’t own…

You know when Braun first bought the catalog. Kelly Clarkson tweeted that Swift should re-record everything to F him over. I guess it was good advice!

My favorite of this new stage in Dem fundraising is that nobody wants an email or text from Nancy Pelosi. I’d hazard not even members of her own family.

Olivia Jade did about as much dancing in that clip as she did rowing for USC.

Oh god, I hate myself for what I am about to type.

I worked as an editor on DWTS for 10 years (season 6-25) and quit when there was a changing of the guard at the executive producer level. In fact the entire post production staff quit at the same time for similar reasons. The show has backslid since then; the packages no longer feature any story content of substance,…

I must say... that “give me your body” song from Queen for JoJo’s routine was a pretty awful choice for a dance. It’s too low energy for a tango, the bassline is minimal and repetitive, the echo effects on “don’t talk” feels awkward with the movements, and the “body language” chorus line is just devoid of the…

I looked at this just for the Queen songs. Body Language is their worst song, and they chose to play the real version of that one? While they karaoked the others? Pity.

I doubt people will see this as I’m grey on this account but I find it so sad that SNS has come to this . 28 minutes up and zero comments , last week the comment section was so sparse . This used to be a thriving community but because of Kinja not caring about it’s commentators and not fixing the many, many issues…