Things that are optional, like my dishes, don’t get done. Make it essential in your daily life. My dishes, I mean. What you do with Japanese is your business. About half of life is doing the right stuff. The other half is avoiding the wrong stuff. It reminds me of the ancient Ja...
The songs of Sam Cooke are forever intertwined with the soulful music of the '50s and '60s. Cooke developed his musical abilities as a gospel singer before crossing over and basically inventing soul music. A string of timeless hits like "Wonderful World," "Twistin' the Night Away," and "...
They were created explicitly with skiing in mind and have changed precious little since the modern snowy getaways (ie, ones with ski lifts) began cropping up on a large scale in Alpine countries in the 1920s. Witness all the flat patches of piste which gradually bring riders to a halt (ei...
Where there are modern rock flourishes onHackney Diamonds, "There's no click tracks. There's no gridding. There's no computer editing," he continued. "This s— is performed live and it speeds up and slows down. It's made to the f—ing heartbeat connection of Mick Jagger, Keith...
s code and activity. And while no one knows for sure why he did what he did, there are solid theories, the strongest one being that his real identity had been discovered, however weird that sounds. This article tells the tale of this post-modern artist whom people came to know as Why...
Music Is Boring/Bad Now Predictably, some social media users slammed the state of modern popular music. “I want to blame TikTok for this, but truthfully I think the root of the problem is how boring, dull and unoriginal modern-pop music sounds like,” said Reddit user TuffyTenToes. “...
(I kid, Most songs are done quite well, but many as a dogpile Why can't you guys write anything but Major Modern General?) It's long, with all of this time spent I feel like I’m ramblin’ Cause I will get no fives, but my point is worth the gamblin’ ...
But, just like with public streaming stats, obsessing over analytics and letting them shape your music is a bad idea. Over a short period of time, analytics could show you that listeners are flocking to one of your songs. That’s obviously a good sign, but it doesn’t mean you need ...
Researchers also aren't sure why some songs are more likely to get stuck in our heads than others, but everyone has their own tunes that drive them crazy. Often the songs have an easy to remember melody, repetitive lyrics, and a surprise -- such as an extra beat or unusual rhythm. The...
“If brands really want to align themselves with Taylor, cheap shots are not going to cut it” for devoted fans, she said. Hard-core fans are uniquely capable of sniffing out inauthenticity when it comes to their favorite person, TV show or fictional universe. “If [brands]...