Musical Politics

[ChelseaLeeArts 3,075]

Justice for all the beautiful voices we will never hear because they don’t come from money. Also fuck every corrupt music label that use people’s dreams just to make money out of them

[Make me your Dream Life 90,009]

Personally, luckily, never really listened to problematic artists, maybe Kanye cus there’s value/quality to his stuff and cus he was just that big but. 
 

As someone who likes to learn lessons, I think it’s good to at least be able to understand where someone might be coming from, from a musical perspective and see if that can be somehow used to better the movement or elevation of music. I think Spotify giving so little kinda offsets the whole supporting thing if it’s just once or twice. Unpopular opinion, but understand the wholeness of what’s being said either ya get it or not. 
 

Gracie abrams is being shoved down people’s throats, but it feels like she’s just getting a lot of support from Taylor swift fans and I personally don’t see what she’s adding much of anything new unless you really look for it? Which let’s face it, that’s not the general norm nor should it be if she’s at that level of bought fame. 
 

I actually kinda like Taylor Swift from a celebrity perspective. I think she can easily still write as if she’s in high school or that perspective, but I think she’s actually grown as an artist at least w folklore/evermore. I don’t however like the fans that take it so far to that level of fanaticism or absorb her personality from past work. I think she mentioned to stop sending hate to her exes that extent. Idk there’s just a pipeline there that can make some of her fans personality/ outlook annoying to be around. Still haven’t listened to the poet album, don’t think I will just cus it seems more quantity than quality and the interest isn’t really there. I do think she can be overall a safe kind of celebrity. White, gorgeous, vibrant personality, so in some ways it kinda gives basic white girl perspective which is fine do you, and I think there’s a certain comfortable expectation of how things are with her releases. 
 

Smaller artists should really be more supported than bigger ones. I get competing w your peers at a massive scale, but if you’re in a position to help smaller artists get some traction, that just brings more to the party. I don’t think the industry’s set up in a way that can actually make much of a solid legacy artist since their setup’s mostly if not all about superficiality that they like to package as deep, and then get surprised when people move away from it. Like, huh? Wdym? U set it up this way without not really doing the quality work so ofc it’s gonna reflect that. 
 

People put too much value in looking like a star, but are seldom afraid of looking ugly. And it’s that whole, well I’m beautiful but either no one deserves me or I’m beautiful but I want them so bad I can’t believe it why? As if that’s the only important thing, and then it’s ironic cus sure the look/outside is there, but you’re looking for spirit/ a soul when you haven’t even fostered one for your own self first yet. There are other working parallels. It’s not mathing. It’s so corny to me. 
 

The less of a legacy an artist can foster, the more the industry wins. Since all they do is sap the fame and siphon the profit, and get to shush the artists into obscurity. So, that setup needs to be fixed majorly or everyone should just move away from that and let their system become a thing of the past by shifting away from all that. 

[Make me your Dream Life 90,009]

Also. Lana was right about sociopathy/psychopathy and narcissism that comes out from the hollow focusing of the external. 
 

There’s a spirit of that in the music industry and touches of it in artists music etc. Don’t get caught up idolizing that so much lest you end up becoming/ exhibiting those traits. Having integrity is still good. How you make others feel is still very much important. Do the boring thing, don’t be ashamed of your and of hard work even if it seems boring. Self respect still counts and is wise. 
People like that are empty and it’s all dependent on how great you make them feel. Don’t fall for it, they’re just covering up an elaborate nothingness and taking from you just to feel something fleeting. 

[Dark Angel 205,411]

3 hours ago, Ultra Violet said:

This is something I wish other fans would admit. How awful it is that they thought it was their job to dig up "receipts" of a wrong date, pretend that meant the *ssault could never have happened and then Melanie actually thanked them and put out a song about it

 

melanie martinez making a diss track against her accuser was just simply insane in the worst way

[baddisease 18,340]

I feel like while Kanye has some fucked up stuff, people forget he's severely mentally ill and has had doctors around him pump him full of drugs so they could get control of his finances and/or music. 

 

It didn't help his "friends" (see: Jay-Z) used his mental health and addiction induced vulnerability for their own ends only to abandon him once his usefulness as an object outweighed his problems.