Random music news for Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Could you get high drinking this special milk? It’s possible. Put that on your Froot Loops. Think about the possibilities as you go through music news for November 22, 2022.

1. At least one person is prepared to defend Ticketmaster against all the hate piled on the company after the Taylor Swift fiasco. The dude makes some good points.
2. A couple was brutally beaten outside an Elton John show at Dodger Stadium.
3. A singer who was part of the 2022 World Cup song walked out of an interview when asked about Qatar’s human rights record.
4. World Cup singles are out of fashion? I didn’t get this memo.
5. Kanye says he’s going to run for president in 2024. Great. Just great. And it gets better.
6. DJ Khaled had put his shoe cupboard on Airbnb. Would you stay there?
7. I think I’ve hit “peak subscription.” Have you?
8. Universal Music just launched a streaming music service–for classical music.
9. The Crue’s Nikki Sixx is now the target of Swifties. Good luck, dude.
10. The artist revolt against phones at concerts continues.
11. Hang on: There’s an official 872-page iPhone user manual? Who knew?
12. This 76-year-old wheelchair-bound academic has been jailed for 18 months for harassing her neighbours by playing her Frank Sinatra records too loud.
13. Are key changes in popular music dying out? There’s some analysis that suggests so.
14. SiriusXM has given its mobile app a refresh.

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BONUS: Great. Al-Qaeda demands jihad against the World Cup.