I'm just gonna rant a bit about music in online spaces.
In the further enshittification of the internet, streaming services continue to fail me on a daily basis. If I have anything less than PERFECT signal, music streaming services won't play. I don't use Spotify because it never plays music for me if it loses connection. Including downloaded files. It constantly invalidates the files and leaves me with no music for my work shift, where I don't have phone signal or wifi.
So, I've traipsed back into having a music only device (my item of choice is currently a Japanese Walkman that I got 2nd hand for like, ¥3000). This has led me to going back and having to re-purchase or find the music I want to listen to.
Enter: the shit state of online music.
I've been a fan of Scary Pockets for a while, they're a compilation group that brings different artists in to do funky covers of existing songs.
They had over a hundred people participate and made almost 400 covers.
A month ago, it was announced that they were "shifting to original music" and removed their entire catalogue off of bandcamp.
If you've built an entire catelogue and want to pivot into originals, sure. You make a post about it and make a branched project. A new group, or maybe add-on like "scary pockets originals" or something.
Taking a huge project like this and deleting the old content, that's just killing the old band and reanimating the corpse, harvesting the good will of the fans.
It's such a shitty method.
I'm so sick and tired of shit just getting worse and worse. There's a lot more I could say, but I'm just so tired of it all that I'm not even sure it's worth the energy to even rant about it.
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https://x.com/DarrenArmy/status/1781624709878071696?t=ZMYis5HJuP995JR5Moks6w&s=09
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BLUES: SONGS OF THE DAY
THE ARTIST IS: SCARY POCKETS
THE SONG IS: BACK IN BLACK
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Dreams | Fleetwood Mac | funk cover ft. Elise Trouw
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What a nice surprise to see Darren at the Scary Pockets concert. It says something about Darren that people who worked with him want to work with him again. They value him as an artist and as a person.
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The Chain | @fleetwoodmac | funk cover ft. Sophia James
All credit to Scary Pockets for this one
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Scary Pockets. India Carney, Jacob Collier. good4u, 2022. (Olivia Rodrigo cover).
🧚🏿♀️
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