Lmaoooo Ty DAVE

I find this unlikely but again you wouldn’t really realize it. Like if you see videos of people drink a Starbucks iced latte, you might be more likely to walk in and get one the next time you pass by a Starbucks

That’s definitely true, at that point you just gotta know what you’re actually into and go on a 3 week hiatus from instagram, restart your feed, then go back to liking videos of just shibas

If that fails, traverse to the woods, no phone, and become a monk

Hey man I’ll never deny the factors that subliminal messaging play in marketing, its just fed to us in a much different way now

Which is again, in a significantly less monolithic way

In the worst way ever tbh. Everyone is addicted to their phones and basically at the mercy of this s*** 24/7

Playboi Carti tbh

That’s why I enjoy forums like this the most cause at least I know the majority of these threads aren’t being curated for me. I have freedom of choice of what I want to see here.

This is why Bruises is richer than all of us, no social media

Of course,money is always first,you can't run a business without money. All im saying is that,there was an idea of what good was at some point within these labels and they were able to quality control and pick out who they'd like to make a star/or an act they want to use to reach a certain base by using their label. Now,no one cares to quality control cause its really not up to the label anymore.

If a song goes viral,it was chosen by the people,and labels are genuinely signing acts and are telling them "keep doing what your doing" with no real intentions of really growing them as artist.

That’s definitely true

Tbh I think the taste of what’s good not being within the hands of labels is sort’ve a double edged sword.
Like on one hand, I think it’s good that it’s decided by the people. I think it’s good that rappers are just able to pop off nowadays without a s***ty pop single that they’re so obviously not putting their heart into

But on the other hand, the publics attention span has never been shorter, and if you’re not constantly reinventing yourself like an Uzi or a Carti, the public won’t give you that chance to evolve. They can just find a new up and coming artist that fits into whatever preconceived image they had of your artistic trajectory/potential

Back in my day, artists would get famous by visiting the crossroads in the middle of the night to sell their mortal souls to Satan.

Like,what Coi Leray did to market her new s*** dropping this week is kinda sad/telling but I think it best explains how labels/artist are moving now. She had to draw attention to the music somehow cause her label wasn't promoting s***.

Which sucks bc she has a huge hit rn

balls in my face

I had a coworker obsessed with this guy. She’s pregnant now.

Obsessed with Lil Mosey????

not by him but rather some other p**** haver

Yes

Thats f***ing hilarious ngl

Omg

yeah idk why

I think the biggest problem with labels not being involved anymore is the fact that artist nor their albums aren't really productions as a whole anymore. Thats why no one feels like a superstar really,cause cause social media made every artist attention seekers and thats what labels go after now,attention seekers/anyone doing numbers on social media.

And people (especially nowadays) aren't a good judge of anything,thats why artist are artist,they make what we want to hear and come up with things we didn't know we wanted. Now everything is chosen by the people andmusic and art is watered down because of it,no one in music right now has realized a vision as an artist since Kendrick imo.