Random music news for Monday, December 30, 2024
If you’re planning on getting married in 2025, here’s an idea for a wedding video: Have the groom wear a VR headset the whole time. Maybe not. Here’s some music news for December 30, 204.
- Grimes insists that she wasn’t dumped by Elon Musk. She left him.
- Speaking of Musk, here’s another reason to dislike him. Free speech on X? Hah! (And if you’re not a fan of Mark Zuckerberg, here’s more fuel for the fire.)
- Why are more pop stars joining OnlyFans? To make money, of course.
- Lindsey Buckingham has a stalker problem. He’s secured a permanent restraining order against a woman.
- Amazon Music may be considering cutting royalty payments for any song that streams less than 1,000 times. (Spotify has already done that.)
- This is fun: The radio broadcasts sitting RIGHT THERE but you don’t know about. (Via Rick J)
- A prediction for podcasts: Video pods are going to be BIG in 2025.
- And here are a few more predictions for podcasts next year.
- Also coming in 2025–maybe: The Apple Ring.
- On the topic of gadgets, here are the three biggest hardware flops of 2024.
- Remember when a video game company created a metal label? No? It happened. (Via Rick J)
- This metal dude spent some time away from music working in a horse barn. Insert your own “the-music-industry-is-horsesh*t” joke here.)
- On that topic, here are a couple of musicians who had such a rough 2024 that they may have to find day jobs in 2025.
- Fans of The Doors will be saddened to learn that this landmark was damaged by fire.
- Not music releated, but still interesting: This was the most-streamed movie of the last five years.
BONUS: Does this post-Christmas song bring up any feels? (Via Curtis)
