Random music news for Saturday, July 23, 2022
Why would a robot dog with a machine gun bother anyone? Oh, right. More indications of the dystopian future ahead. Forget that for the moment and just concentrate on music news for July 23, 2022.
- The fastest growing news source for many adults is…TikTok? What could possibly go wrong?
- Ricky Martin’s nephew has withdrawn those really gross allegations in court.
- Lady Gaga has a problem with her choreographer being toxic.
- U2 at the Kennedy Center Honors!
- What does your musical taste say about you? Maybe nothing.
- Facebook and Instagram have been hit with a massive music copyright lawsuit.
- Drake vs, The Bees.
- Ozzy was actually paranoid about…what? Sounded like he needed help with his mind.
- Pat Benatar won’t perform “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” anymore because of mass shootings.
- This is why going to a music festival can really, really suck.
- Folk legend and activist Pete Seeger is getting his own American stamp.
- How is it we can tell when someone is singing off-key? It’s a brain thing.
- And this is good: Music shows potential for slowing the progression of dementia.
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BONUS: The Straddling Bus Fail.
Computer algorithms like Google’s ad’s services based on what you search for and things that you ‘like’ on social media should NEVER be a determination for who a person is personality-wise, taste-wise, etc. because they all pander to the lowest common denominator and they have no ability to account for random factors OR unique variables.
Once upon a time, Netflix et al would give you a five point scale to judge things. Now you have a 0 or 1 variable. Dislike or Like in this case. There is no other ground – no middle ground, no shades of grey, no not applicable (unless you don’t pick anything).
Our tastes in everything colour our personalities. One couldn’t possibly say that my taste in clothes don’t define who I am. That would be laughable beyond belief. I believe the same holds true for books, music and art (art for me includes art as a medium and the arts as in theatre etc. It’s my entertainment trifecta for life.)
In a search engine, you might be searching for yourself, your grandmother, your next door neighboor, your boss, your sister’s second cousins best friend’s neighbor from across the street and the search engine’s algorithm wouldn’t know that any of these weren’t *YOU*.
And the analogy of people walking down the street and walking past ‘art’ and not looking at it. Geez louise. Most people (and yes, I am covering this one with very broad strokes in several directions):
(1) don’t have the time to look past their phones and or their busy lives
(2) don’t pay much attention to the world around them period
(3) go to museums and other artsy places for their art but don’t need to be told it’s ART to like it – they can dislike/hate it too (it’s not necessarily a sheeple thing) and
(4) see (3) on the don’t need to be led by the nose and told something is Art with a capital ‘A’ and will fall all over themselves to worship at the altar of said Art in the name of Art because someone said so. Some will. But not all. I don’t have *that* much of a dim view of humanity; cynic that I am.
Haven’t we all gone to people’s houses and the first thing we did was to look at their book and record collection while they were off getting us coffee or tea or whatnot? I know that was always the first thing I did. It’s one of the first questions I ask someone when I meet them: Who are your favorite authors? What are your top five bands of all time?