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stormblessed95 · 11 months

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Hiii stormie my dear, how are you? first of all, i wanted to say that i adore your blog and i think u are a breath of fresh air here. Thank you! Because i trust u, I wanted to say some things im thinking about since seven released, i hope u dont mind.

Ok, like jk says: lets get it! Right, I do understand people feeling sad about jimin and face era. It was awful how sabotaged he was, and i still dont get what really happened and i'm mad to whatever or whoever is responsible for it. But i'm seeing so many people doubting the veracity in jungkookie's success with seven and i'm hating it. I dont think the song is getting payola, nor playlists by paying for it and neither ads on youtube. First, the song was sent to radios, but just a few of them r playing it, one of them being a guy who loves to plays "k-pop" songs. If there was payola, it would be playing everywhere all the time already. The playlist thing: just like "like crazy eng. ver", seven entered the Today's Top Hits playlist. But at #23 place. I just saw a tweet by a guy talking about this: https://twitter.com/cantorpedia/status/1680258574688088066?s=20. We know that there's some shady thing happening in this playlist for a while, and if seven have deals to get this high debut numbers, it would had debuted at the top in the playlist, even in the cover (it may go up next week, because there is supposed to be some internal logic that the more a song receives streams IN the playlist, the more it rises). Also, seven had a huge filtering in spotify, just like all BTS' songs, which also shows that they r not making deals. Now, about Youtube ads... i saw a person posting a ss about seeing an ad of the song, but apparently is fake.

Seven is doing AWESOME numbers because: its a english catchy song, with a cute mv, sang by THEE Jeon Jungkook. Im not joking, seven is really a gp success.. yesterday i saw 3 people from my daily life and inner circle talking about loving the song. My sister, who is not an army, said that she listened to the song all day while i was not home. Gp is loving it. So they did with butter (which is a eng song too), but Seven has a differential: the clean and explict version r being counted combined. Plus, seven is doing awesome everywhere, even in korean charts.

If there was something shady going on, i dont think they would make more than 1 version for the song, even on youtube (there is a new perfomance video for the explict ver). They would just send to radios and count on the payola and the deals w spotify, tiktok, youtube, for the charts (thats what most western artists does). But since billboard started filtering the songs so much so that made like crazy drop from 1 to 45 in a week and then stopped counting digital versions from usa based artist stores, BTS had to start making available to fans different versions of the same song because they know they cant count on radio, but can count on the sales and streams. Since Like Crazy, i feel like Hybe is experimenting ways of overcoming the sabotage by the industry.

The thing is, i think we can and should talk and raise questions about how jimin was treated badly, in every chart and streaming platform. For example, views from youtube were not being frozen in Yoongi's songs too, just like jk's. So, its not a privilege that jk is receiving, its just that something was really happening with face promotions, who knows what and why. But that was not jk's or any member fault.

Anyway, i'm happy for jk and i know much more is coming his way. And i cant wait for jimin to make a new comeback soon too. I hope it all goes well yk, Jimin deserves the best in his promotions just like jk and the other members. Lets hope. I'm sorry for hijacking your tumblr for this rant, im hoping u have some thoughts on the subject

Rant shared. I shared my thoughts about most of this a few weeks ago, I'm sure anyone who wants to can still scroll to go find it all, I'm not *really* wanting to open it all back up for discussion again. People are VILE honestly. I enjoy the song, it's fun, it's not much more than that and it's clearly made to be a western audience radio hit. Jungkook deserves and has my full support though! 💜 thanks for sharing

#jungkook seven

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allamericansbitch · 3 months

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Genuine question but how is Taylor selling multiple variants different from Olivia or Ariana doing the same thing? I feel like if you’re going to have different variants at least put something different like a bonus song on them instead of just literally changing the cover. And all the music will be on streaming anyways so like it’s sort of meh to me

it's very different. with olivia or ariana, there's no reason to buy all of them like you said, so there's no pressure just buy whatever ones you want (oh i like the red one i'll get that, i like the blue i'll get that one; simple and based on personal preference.). olivia had bonus tracks on the different vinyl but that wasn't heavily advertised or the main draw to purchase it, so it was just a fun treat. with Taylor making each variant seem like a whole different aspect to the album and dangling the carrot of 'look it's different there's a new song on each of them' and releasing them as 'limited releases' when they never actually are and making people pay for shipping on each individual order, it's just a cash grab. plus Taylor doesn't need a cash grab, she's a billionaire. she's also doing it to break records and jus have high numbers in sales. even if olivia did this it would be less aggressive because she's still very up-and-coming compared to Taylor- who could cough in her phone for 10 seconds and that still would break records and top the charts. also, most other artists who release different variants do so by outsourcing to other companies, like a variant specifically sold at independent record stores, amazon, target, their top listeners at spotify, etc. taylor just doing multiples for herself, all goes back to her. so again, no real reason for this many.

It all just comes back to the fact that if anyone doesn't need to do this, it's her. she has enough money, too much money, an unethical amount of money. if she wanted to release all of the 'extra' songs, just put them on 1 deluxe album so people don't have to buy every individual vinyl for all the songs. and the whole 'she's not forcing you to buy them' nonsense, technically no... but if her fans want the songs.... then yeah they have to buy them? plus just because no one's being forced to take part in something doesn't mean it's not kinda messed up? that doesn't nullify anything.

#answered #anonymous

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roweclementine · 3 months

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Getting ready to end my Spotify subscription when it expires at the end of the month but I’m keeping the account up so here’s all of my playlists that I’ve made since I joined back in summer 2020

Downloads (the Big One)

2023:

March 2023 (v proud of the cover for this one; can’t believe I’ve been doing these for a whole year)

April 2023

May 2023

June 2023

Fourth Of July 2023 (Rowe’s Version)

august 2023

September 2023

October 2023

November 2023

December 2023

March-December 2023

2024:

January 2024 (platonic breakup season woooo)

February 2024

March 2024

The monthly playlist idea was stolen from @trenchcrows. Each playlist has as many songs as there were days in that month (except when they don’t because some of them used to have Lovejoy/Wilbur songs in them). They were my favorite/most listened to/most looped songs from each month. It was a fun project and I think that it’s cool that I can look back and figure out exactly when I got into certain songs or when certain things were happening to me. November-January was certainly A Time.

Queer Playlists:

Aspec (aro and/or ace songs)

🏳️‍⚧️ (trans/nb songs)

🏳️‍🌈 (gay gay homosexual gay)

Podcast Adjacent Playlists:

Favorite SFBO Episodes

Favorite Podcasts

Songs from Let’s Learn Everything!

Playlists For Specific Artists/Albums:

GLOOM DIVISION (new idkhow album go stream it)

We’re Not Panicking! At The Disco Anymore (by Fall Out Boy)

Everything by Jon Walker (all of the songs/bands mentioned in Everything)

Jon Walker favorites

Waterparks songs named after colors

Waterparks Songs Named After Pixar Quotes

Sparrow Sleeps

Infinity on High but it's my favorite parts (by fall out boy)

Local Dreamers (the Wait I Need to Listen to Twenty One Pilots More So They Show Up on My Wrapped playlist)

American Beauty/American Psycho, but with 9% more Demi Lovato

Razzmatazz, but with 9% more Tessa Violet

Playlists For Specific Situations:

Songs to listen to at the end of the year

Beachy

Therapy :( (Rowe is not having a good time)

Therapy :) (Rowe is not having a good time but she’s trying to be optimistic now)

✨ Seasonal Depression ✨ (Rowe is not having a good time part 3, now with more Christmas)

Christmas Songs That I Actually Like (We’re going to ignore the fact that Every Snowflake is Different isn’t technically a Christmas song ok?)

Relationships:

Breakup songs

Show Me The Door (break up songs; a playlist dedicated to my mother)

/ (love songs)

Hopeless Romantic Bittersweet Yearning (more love songs)

& (songs about friendship)

Spotify Wrapped:

Rowe’s 2020 Wrapped

Rowe’s 2021 Wrapped

Rowe’s 2022 Wrapped

Rowe’s 2023 Wrapped

Rowe’s Wrapped 2019-2023 (I had Spotify in 2019 but was using a different account at the time)

Minecraft:

Fallen Kingdom Saga

Minecraft Songs

The Minecraft Archives:

TMcA

tmca!Tommy

(The Minecraft archives was a mcyt (dsmp/Hermitcraft season 8) tma au that I was working on which I am no longer writing because of Current Events)(I also had a TMcA!Wilbur playlist but I deleted it back in February along with all of my other Lovejoy playlists because fuck Wilbur)

The Rest Of Them:

Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday (sometimes you just wanna listen to songs with Saturday in the title; here’s a playlist for that)

Favorite Covers

Walmart Radio but it’s the songs I actually like

# (songs with numbers in the title)

Duets & features

Inside you there are two wolves (aka Fall Out Boy are liars)

Eurovision Favs

and finally,

Some Songs That Aren’t Lovejoy:

When did this happen why are there so many of them this post took like an hour to make

#Spotify #playlists #music

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ystk-archive · 1 year

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Not sure what streaming you use but have you noticed that TIC TAC has crossed over 1m streams on Spotify? It’s at number 1 on their popular songs list, just surpassed Sugarless Girl and Hikari no Disco which were their two most streamed before Hello which is at 2.2m it appears. Seems like the Spotify algorithm maybe picked it up? It gets autoplayed quite often when I’m listening to available shibuya kei-esque stuff on Spotify. Maybe all of my streams of it helped the algorithm pick it up lol. Seems like there’s a tiny bit of a shibuya kei rediscovery and revival afoot on Tiktok and such platforms and maybe Capsule will be caught up in it perhaps? Old Perfume videos tend to go viral amongst various weeb circles on there from time to time.

I'm not sure how to talk about this without sounding like a downer lmao but:

I don't put a whole lot of stock into streaming numbers because they seem influenced by so many variables and, as a consequence, ultimately don't reflect the important metrics people think they do. Apart from any algorithmic explanations, tiC taC is one of their shorter songs, so it's a lot easier to repeat and rack up crazy high listens. (Sugarless and Hello have just always been genuinely popular songs for them though. Which Sugarless I get but Hello was just a phone ad that mimics the Nintendo Wii BGM style...)

At the risk of ranting I'll just say exposure is only one part of building (or rebuilding, in this case) an audience. Perfume stands to gain significantly more from going "viral" on TikTok and elsewhere than capsule, with their present management and [gestures at everything else], ever could. It's also worth mentioning capsule has historically always had a lot of casual/passive listeners and fewer serious fans -- I'm talking about people who really like some of their songs but have no inclination or resources to keep up with their activities (well, lack thereof these days) or even to know their names ("CAPSULE is the stagename of the girl who sings the songs, she's a solo artist" is a real phenomenon lmao).

tl;dr blowing up on XYZ platform can only translate into tangible real-life rewards if the artist in question and their team are willing and able to capitalize on it accordingly. (On a personal note I also feel attention from weeb circles is one of the last things any Japanese artist needs, but I'm not about to start/that's fighting a lost battle.)

#messages

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helly-watermelonsmellinfellon · 2 years

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My Top 3 on Taylor Swift's "Midnights" Album

Vigilante Shit

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I love drama and the fact that Scooter lost his wife cuz he cheated and he's involved in many lawsuits for fraud is hilarious to me. Also, bad bitch Taylor adding about song to my Bad Bitch Taylor playlist.

Karma

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Again... I love drama. This song immediately reminded me of This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things from reputation. That song was about certain people ruining something good they'd been allowed to have, and Taylor being sassy and dramatic about not forgiving them.

This song evokes the same image, and probably about one of those people still, plus a new person. She was right. She did no wrong. She went through hell. But now everything on her end is effin great and the subjects of the song are dealing with divorce, Nazi allegations, fraud, and failure at every corner whenever they try to make a lucrative move.

Taylor says she took proof to a man's wife about him cheating and not only is she now friends with the wife, but the wife got all the nice shit in the separation.

Anti-Hero

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I just really love this. The funeral scene will forever elevate this song for me from now on.

~.O.~

As usual, Taylor delivers a stunning piece of work. Enough to break the Spotify all-around records for daily artist streams, debut day streams, and overall overtook Drake's record with just the base 13 songs, not even including the additional streams she got from the deluxe tracks she surprised released.

She also broke Apple Music and iTunes records out the ass. And is set to debut with over 1 Million physical CD sales. She'll be the first person to do so ever since her own album reputation earned a 1 Million release week of its own. Billboard revealed she'd sold 800,000 physical CDs on the very first day of the tracking week and just this morning the estimated number of sales rose even higher with new data. She broke the record for vinyl sales and I think the record for cassette sales as well.

This is massive because we're in the height of the streaming era. Music is the easiest to acquire than it ever had been. And streams pay artists pittance. 1 stream on Spotify earn less than a penny. And while Taylor earns more than most artists for having a hand in most of the jobs involved in making her albums, she still doesn't get much for it and the other people involved get way less. Physical sales benefit all creatives involved in the process.

Finally, this was a lot of effort and I'm very proud that it's making people realize that breaking your own records, plus the records of industry darlings, 16 years into your career, isn't normal. It's something to celebrate and further cements her legacy. Enough that multiple publications have recently written about how she left the peers she debuted alongside behind ages ago and has attained status only the biggest artists in the world ever achieved(even likening her to The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, and David Bowie).

#midnights #ts10 #taylor swift #Youtube

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edrick001 · 1 year

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Literacy Journalism

"Ariana Grande"

Grande began her music career at age 15 in the 2008 Broadway musical 13. She rose to fame for playing Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon television series Victorious (2010–2013) and Sam & Cat (2013–2014). Grande signed with Republic Records in 2011 after label executives viewed YouTube videos of her covering songs. Her 1950s doo-wop-influenced pop and R&B debut album,[2] Yours Truly (2013), topped the US Billboard 200, while its lead single, "The Way", reached the top ten of the US Billboard Hot 100. Grande's voice and whistle register on the album drew immediate comparisons to Mariah Carey.

Grande continued to explore pop and R&B in her second and third studio albums, My Everything (2014) and Dangerous Woman (2016). My Everything experimented with EDM and achieved global success with its singles "Problem", "Break Free" and "Bang Bang", while Dangerous Woman became her first of four consecutive number-one albums in the UK. Personal struggles influenced her trap-infused fourth and fifth studio albums, Sweetener (2018) and Thank U, Next (2019), both of which were critical and commercial successes. Sweetener won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, and Thank U, Next broke the record for the largest streaming week for a pop album and was nominated for Album of the Year. The singles "Thank U, Next", "7 Rings", and "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" made Grande the first solo artist to hold the top three spots on the Hot 100 simultaneously and the first woman to succeed herself at the top of the UK Singles Chart. Her 2020 collaborations "Stuck with U" with Justin Bieber and "Rain on Me" with Lady Gaga helped her break the record for most number-one debuts on the Hot 100, the latter winning the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Grande expanded on the trap genre with her sixth studio album, Positions (2020), which both the album and its title track debuted at number one in the UK and the US. Her collaborations with The Weeknd on the remixes of "Save Your Tears" and "Die for You" garnered her sixth and seventh US number-one singles, respectively.

Grande is one of the world's best-selling music artists; she has sold over 90 million records globally and all of her studio albums have been certified platinum or higher. She has also broken a variety of records on the Billboard chart, with her albums, songs and as an artist. Grande is the most streamed female artist of all time, the most streamed female artist of 2010s on Spotify and Apple Music, the most followed female artist on Spotify, and the most subscribed female solo artist on YouTube. Nine of Grande's songs and seven of her music videos reached 1 billion streams and views on Spotify and Vevo, respectively. She is the female artist with the most one billion songs on the former platform. Grande has been included on Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world (2016 and 2019) and the Forbes Celebrity 100 (2019–2020). Grande was named Woman of the Year (2018), the greatest pop star of 2019, and the most successful female artist to debut in the 2010s by Billboard. Furthermore, Rolling Stone placed her in their list of 200 Greatest Singers of All Time (2023). Besides music, Grande has worked with many charitable organizations and advocates for animal rights, mental health, and gender, racial, and LGBT equality. Grande has also ventured into the cosmetics and fashion industries. Grande has a large following on social media; she became the most followed woman on Instagram in 2019 and has over 370 million followers as of 2023. Her fragrance line, which was released in 2015, exceeded $1 billion in sales through 2022.I

Facial Recognition

"Jungkook"

Word:353

On June 12, 2013, Jungkook made his debut as a member of BTS with the release of the single 2 Cool 4 Skool.[15] Under BTS, he has sung three solo songs. The first, a pop track titled "Begin", from the 2016 album Wings, tells his story of moving to Seoul at a young age to become an idol and expresses his gratitude towards his bandmates for taking care of him during that time.[16] The second, a future bass song titled "Euphoria", was released with an accompanying nine-minute short film on April 5, 2018, as the introduction to the third part of BTS' "Love Yourself" series.[17] Produced by DJ Swivel, the song charted at number five on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100. Its full studio version was included on BTS' Love Yourself: Answer compilation album, released on August 24.[1] The third solo, "My Time", off the band's 2020 studio album Map of the Soul: 7, is an R&B song about forgoing teenage experiences because of his career,[18] and charted at number 84 on the US Billboard Hot 100. "Euphoria" and "My Time" are the first and second longest-charting solo tracks among K-pop singers on the Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart, having spent a record 90 and 85 weeks respectively on the ranking.[19]

Aside from singing, Jungkook has also helped produce two songs for BTS: "Love is Not Over", from the band's 2015 extended play (EP) The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 1, and "Magic Shop", from the band's 2018 album Love Yourself: Tear—he is credited as the main producer for both tracks.[20][21]

In October 2018, Jungkook was ordained alongside his bandmates with the fifth-class Hwagwan Order of Cultural Merit by the President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in.[22][23] He was appointed Special Presidential Envoy for Future Generations and Culture, again alongside his bandmates, by Moon in July 2021, in order to help "lead the global agenda for future generations" and "expand South Korea's diplomatic efforts and global standing" in the international community.[24]

Testimony

"Time is gold"

The saying "Time is Gold" is a saying we always hear especially among the elderly. They may be saying this because time is very important to a person. You can't get back the times and seasons that have passed or been lost. So while there's still a chance, while it's still time to do something with your family, friends or even yourself, do it. You should not make it last longer because when the time comes when you can no longer do it, you will have the thought that you wish you had done it when you could. Our lives are short so let's make the time and time we have now.

Travelogue

"Pagudpud ilocos Norte"

When I was in Ilocos we always went to Pagudpud because Pagudpud is beautiful, many tourists go to Pagudpud because it is one of the famous sights in Ilocos Norte because it is so beautiful and most of the famous vloggers and the Patapat Bridge go there This winding road is beautiful and in Bangui, the windmills and the sands there are beautiful, and then it's beautiful to look at the sea and the coconut trees.

Definition Essay

"To know Love"

Whether it's an infliction of pain, an intense feeling of pleasure, or a source of immense hurt, the three vastly different reactions are common side effects of love. In fact, love has been known to cause an endless number of emotional possibilities. It is important to consider how love is able to manifest itself into the many aspects of our lives. For example, how is love able to leave us wallowing in a bed of guilt, fortitude, agony, denial, or cause an overwhelming blissful sensation? Or, in more extreme cases, how has its intense side effects been able to cause people to physically harm themselves? Never has a single word been known to both have been rooted in selfless and selfish acts, showing itself as warmth and kindness, or maliciousness, guile, hate, or abandonment. Yet, the single word, love, arguably has the most versatile meaning of any word known. The average person will agree that "love" has been overused so much so, that it's original meaning has been diluted over the years, which has resulted in an inherent change from its intended purpose. For example, it often proceeds or has been associated with statements such as, "I'm sorry, will you forgive me?" or "come on don't you love me?" Love in the context of forgiveness is vastly different from its enabling context as used in the second statement. Which context coincides with its original meaning and which has been the result of evolutionary over usage? In fact, as this essay will discuss neither statement uses or associates "love" as its original definition intended. The rest of this essay attempts to refocus our modern day abuse of the word, love, and visit its original roots.

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What is BLACKPINK Net Worth And Who Is the Richest BLACKPINK Member In 2022?

BLACKPINK is one of the most successful K-pop groups ever, joining the ranks of BTS, TWICE, and others. Their on-screen chemistry and talent have amassed them as one of the most influential all-girl K-pop groups and also helped them make a fortune with their ceaseless fans called "blinks." Today, we'll be looking at their net worths, and possibly we'll also uncover the richest member of BLACKPINK. I know most of you think that a particular individual in the group is the richest; however, sit tight because we'll unravel the true opulent of them all. But before we start with their individual net worths, let's see what BLACKPINK is worth as an combined group.

BLACKPINK combined net worth in 2022

BLACKPINK has been active as a brand ambassador for big companies like Samsung, Dior, and Cartier, to name a few. As a four-member group, BLACKPINK has a combined net worth of USD 62 million. Most of BLACKPINK's income comes from album sales, world tours, brand endorsement, and exclusive promotional events. Moreover, these four women have been pursuing their solo careers as well. For example, Lisa's solo album, LALISA, paved her way to debuting at number eighty-four on the Hot 100 and number two on the Global 200 charts. Similarly, Jennie's SOLO album debuted atop Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart in 2018. The song has been said to be on the same spot for 25 weeks and has sold over 10,000 digital copies in the US. Moreover, Jisoo's entry into the Korean drama world with her debut show "Snowdrop" contributed to the group's overall value. In fact, "Snowdrop" 's overwhelming response helped JTBC to record product sales of 77.4 billion won. Each member of excellence at what they are good at while also contributing to BLACKPINK as group members. However, have you ever wondered about their individual wealth and how these four women earned their fortune? In this post, we'll look at the individual net worths of Lisa, Jennie, Rosé, and Jisoo. We'll also look at who might be the richest BLACKPINK member among the four. ALSO READ: How Did K-Pop Overcome The Language Barrier?

Richest BLACKPINK members

Jennie (Jennie Kim) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSva10cuutQ Starting with the second most popular BLACKPINK member on the list, the Korean-born singer was raised in the affluent neighborhood of UN Village, located in Hannam-dong, Seoul. She comes from a wealthy background; her father owns a hospital while her mother is a CJ & M Director and Shareholder. Apart from being from a wealthy family, Jennie created her fortune after joining BLACKPINK. According to sources, Jennie's net worth is around USD 10 million. Jennie has endorsed many brands and has been involved in solo music careers. She has over 300 million Spotify streams on her SOLO project and amassed a 2.7 million monthly listening ratio. Jennie is also known for endorsing Chanel since 2017 and has been spotted wearing the brand's outfit on multiple occasions — giving her the nickname 'Human Chanel.' Estimated net worth of Jennie: USD 10 million Lisa (Lalisa Manoban) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNCWe_6HAM8 Born and raised as Pranpriya Manobal in Thailand, the 25-year-old rapper was discovered by YG Entertainment and was brought to Korea to debut with the group BLACKPINK. Lisa is the only non-Korean member of the group. She had a comfortable upbringing and was the only child of her Thai mother, Chitthip Brüschweiler, and Swiff's stepfather, Marco Brüschweiler. Her father is a well-renowned chef in Thailand and serves multiple luxury hotels worldwide. Lisa's fortune came into existence after joining BLACKPINK. She soon moved up the ranks in the Kpop world and started working on her solo career. According to sources, Lisa's net with is around USD 14 million, and she is one of the most featured artists in international songs and musical projects. She also endorsed luxury brands, such as Prada, Chivas, and CELINE, and has partnered with Samsung as a brand ambassador. Estimated net worth of Lisa: USD 14 million ALSO READ: 23 K-pop World Tours Happening In 2022 Rosé (Roseanne Park) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYyWoovxq-8 Born as Roseanne Park in Auckland, New Zealand, Rosé is the second-richest member of BLACKPINK. She is the fastest Kpop act to surpass 200,000 digital pre-orders on QQ Music in 2021 and the first YG artist who promoted her solo project on the Mnet M Countdown. According to CelebrityNetWorth, Rosé has a net worth of USD 18 million. Like most members, Rosé released her 2020 solo album "R," officially listed in two Guinness World Records categories. The first being is for "On The Ground," as she becomes the first Korean solo artist with "most YouTube views within 24 hours" for that time. The second time was the first Korean artist to rank in the first place as a solo artist and as a group on Billboard's Global 200 Chart. Estimated net worth of Rosé: USD 18 million Jisoo (Jisoo Kim) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piF8kHR0Cr0 The oldest member of the group is currently the wealthiest member. Jisoo is the richest BLACKPINK member as of 2022. She is also the brand ambassador for multiple brands, including CELEBe, Nexon's game MapleStory, and a member of the Panthère community by Cartier. According to South China Morning Post, Jisoo has a net worth of USD 20 million. She has extended coverage of multiple entertainment genres— songwriting, singing, Youtube, and acting. Her latest role in "Snowdrop" has brought a new actress to the plate, and we can say that Jisoo's fans would love to see her in more Korean dramas. Estimated net worth of Jisoo: USD 20 million RELATED: Is BlackPink Disbanding Soon? Find The Truth Here! Read the full article

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Måneskin: "Different from whom?"

Greetings from Miley Cyrus - phenomenal numbers.

The streams of Zitti e Buoni are growing by the second, and ahead of Muse, on the top of the English charts, twelfth in the Spotify Global Chart. We almost tripled followers after Rotterdam (from 1.4 to 3.3 million, ed). Contagious and universal madness: T-shirts and merchandise sold out in 10 minutes. Like records, tickets for a tour that adds dates and expands on maps. They are even looking for us in festivals where the Rolling Stones have played. - Thomas

After the whole cocaine scandal that was started against us from France, which was later denied by my drug test, in Spain there people have been making murals with my face saying "No drugs". Some tweets made us laugh: «Congratulations, Italy! I have never been so sure that four people have fucked each other ". Miley Cyrus started following us. "You are great". “You are more” . - Damiano

From rags to riches - what a story

It was only 2016, and we were playing in restaurants, on the streets, in via del Corso (famous street in Rome). Damiano without a microphone, Thomas's guitar with broken strings, Ethan drummed on a cajón. At the occupations of the high schools in Rome (Kennedy, Virgilio, Mamiani) we had our first gigs and half an hour of fame, between those who criticized us and those who said "these guys are so cool". One of the rare times in which they offered to pay us to play - 50 euros each - we offered that money to those after us, in exchange for the chance to play during their time slow, as we knew there would have been a bigger crowd. We already understood then how it worked. That visibility was worth more than the money. We still think so ». - Victoria

The intimacy of rock - Choice of a genre

Music allows is this miracle which allows one to talk about very personal and private topics, even difficult and delicate ones. They are and remain deeply yours, but at the same time they become a confession that reaches a wider audience, and in this passage which is like a delivery, they also find their place in you, their elaboration. They are overcome, they are accepted. One moment it feels aggressive, one moment later a (soft) ballad. It's very cathartic. - Damiano

Against panic - The stage as therapy

I have suffered a lot from anxiety and panic attacks, it is a problem that I have worked on thanks to a course of psychotherapy, to my friends and family. Playing has helped me not to let myself be paralyzed by my fears, not to be limited in my private and professional life. I have learned to accept, to live with this side of me. I don't hide it. I no longer feel ashamed. - Victoria

This belief that only crazy people go to the psychologist is widespread ignorance. Nobody is born learned. And it is often difficult to understand why we are here, let alone the derivation and direction of our desires. It is a long and legitimate journey towards one's clarity. - Damiano

Essere fuori di testa – Ma diversi da loro (Be out of your mind - But different from them)

Already feeling a strong passion for something that is not a 'regular' profession but an artistic language, it puts you on a level where you're an anomaly, and while you're neither superior nor inferior to others, it places you in the condition of what breaks the mold but you're also being at a loss, leaving it to you to be bold and to take risks, hoping that they will pay off and land you somewhere. "What good is it if you don't stand out on your own?". You want to give it an aesthetic to your artistic dream, but to others it boils down to " You dress differently! You must be gay! ”, I'm 22 now and it makes me laugh, but at 17 it had an effect on me too. - Damiano

The beauty of being unique - Of believing in that and defending it

After all, we are all different not because we want to be alternative but because really no one is the same. Justice is being judged on what you do and not what you are. Justice is equality, respect, beauty. - Ethan

Fluid sexuality - Pride is freedom

We appreciate heels on men, we kiss each other, we have an open, extended mind, and we are proud of it. The horizons become vast, beyond the oppression of conservative families. With information on the web, knowledge is enriched and with it the possibility that minorities will be fewer and fewer, because majorities will be fewer and fewer. This will lower the volume to insults and bullying. If social networks can reach a village of 50 souls to reveal to someone, who is afraid of the darkness, that someone has felt that same fear.. There is no longer the need to give it a name, to define that "something" to fear, to brand it with labels that only limit you. Definitions have always had this effect on me. Gender should not even be considered in a person's judgment. Let alone orientation ". - Victoria

Sexism - A culture to be dismantled

Emma (Italian singer) dropped the bomb:" When I went to Eurovision, they insulted me over a pair of shorts. Damiano - half naked and in heels - was never criticized ". The judgment against women is constant, ferocious, and demeaning (if I have a lot of sex I'm cool but Vic a whore, where I show myself strong I'm a leader she is domineering and pain in the ass, who is successful because only because of her looks [and not the hard work she puts in]). As a male I am privileged, the harassment I suffer is not comparable to that experienced by a woman, the comments on my aesthetics are focused only on my aesthetics and do not insinuate anything about my professionalism and my competence, while women are victims of this kind of thinking in a systemic way. But I did find myself in a situation, out of nowhere, with someone who, pulling close to her for a selfie, started licking my face ... "What do you want, did you ask me?" Consent exists, and it is a must ». - Damiano

To grow as a person - The only rule to follow

For me, to conform is the total opposite of educating oneself, and the asphyxiation of one's expression (of freedom). Fortunately, I did not suffer heavy bullying, to the point where I felt I needed to change to adapt to how others saw me. But the matrix of who I am and the aggression that marks me is the same. If I'm a kid who dances and loves dolls, then allow me the freedom to do so. I used to be a kid who wanted long hair and played with Barbies. My friends, as a teenager, looked my long hair and teased me: "You have to find yourself a girl with a short hair to make up for it". My grandparents took the dolls away from me and said: “Stop it, they're not for you” ». - Ethan

“I was six and I already could not tolerate the distinctions between masculine and feminine. I've always had strong ideas about how I wanted to be. I refused things typically defined as feminine as a child, and they made fun of me for skating, for playing soccer, for not wearing skirts, for giving myself the chance to be as I wanted to be. I suffered a little, as I was bullied, but I had courage to stay true to myself, and today thanks to that courage I know that I could have been much more hurt, or I would have risked leaving the most important decision to others: the one about being just me". - Victoria

Love - music and girlfriends

I've been married to music for the past 20 years. I cannot wait to celebrate our golden wedding anniversary. - Ethan

Everyone goes through their own experiences, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but it's never other people's business." - Thomas

When, for the first time, I developed feelings and attraction for a girl it was a bit disorienting because I had never had the courage to go beyond the limitations I had imposed on myself. For society, being heterosexual is the norm and therefore often one automatically pegs himself in that way, giving up the freedom to experience many different shades and facets of love. Once I got over the initial insecurity of having to question one's own certainties, I lived my sexuality in a very natural and free way, as it should be for everyone. - Victoria

I had paparazzi under my house morning and night. So, after four years of relationship, I finally revealed her name. I still have the paparazzi under my house morning and night, but at least I don't have to hide anything anymore. - Damiano

The value of the group - Protecting each other

But the real relationship, the real family, is between us. Our band. We believed in it from the first day, even before calling ourselves Måneskin (moonlight in Danish), even before Ethan drew a giant moon, on the poster for our first concert. We share everything, even the pain of the tragedy of Seid Visin, who committed suicide at 20 because he was a victim of racism. Being a group is what we should all do together: stay united and not retreat in the slightest in the face of abuses generated by a distorted vision of someone "being different|. - Thomas

Non ho l’età – like Gigliola (It references Gigliola Cinquetti who won both Sanremo and Eurovision with her song "Non ho l’età" which translates to Not old enough)

Before us, the only one to win Sanremo and Eurovision together was Gigliola Cinquetti (in 1964). Is there is something for which I feel I am not yet old enough for? No, honestly no. Maybe for kids. I'll be honest, I'm not enough to be a dad. - Damiano

Reached the sky - What fears still remain

We are more than in the dream, we have conquered the dream. To fly high this high, there is the risk is to fall and get hurt, but we will try not to end up like Icarus, who burns his wings with the sun. Everything is in our hands. And this - somewhat presumptuously - reassures us rather than frighten us ". - Damiano

(ORIGINAL INTERVIEW IN ITALIAN)

[Please note that I have changed some words or structure sentence, trying to make it so that the interview made more sense lol - I skipped the first two paragraphs, which was basically the interviewer gushing over how pretty the band is lmao (relatable).

Any mistakes in the translation are sorely mine, nothing was proofread, so apologies in advance]

#maneskin #ethan torchio #damiano david #victoria de angelis #thomas raggi #i'm off to drink some wine lol

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TOMORROW X TOGETHER is thriving on TikTok!

The future of TOMORROW X TOGETHER after the “Anti-Romantic” challenge

2021.09.15

More than 100,000 videos on social media platform TikTok had used TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s “Anti-Romantic” as their background music just one month after the song’s release, and the number exceeded 300,000 a month later on July 24. This makes it the most used TOMORROW X TOGETHER song for videos on the service.

The track’s TikTok popularity began with the “Anti-Romantic” dance challenge. After seeing the positive comments left on a video of her playfully dancing to the song, American TikToker Zuki from New Jersey developed it into choreography and posted a tutorial video where she explained the moves slowly so others could easily follow along. “I [took] inspiration from the simplicity of popular TikTok dances,” Zuki elaborated, saying she shared the tutorial because her “main goal is to entertain and have fun.” Her choreography for the dance challenge involves undulating along to the melody of “Anti-Romantic” with handclaps and hip pops in time to the drop of the beat, and it quickly spread through other TikTokers across the platform. That’s why so many “Anti-Romantic” dance challenge videos have “dc: @yutasbestie”—dance credit to Zuki by username—in their descriptions.

One of Zuki’s close TikToker friends, Irene, is also MOA (the TOMORROW X TOGETHER fandom) and covered Zuki’s choreography. With more than 45 million views, Irene’s dance challenge is the most viewed TikTok video related to “Anti-Romantic,” and as she took center stage in the trend, her follower count surpassed one million. “I woke up one day bombarded with comments of different languages,” like Portuguese and Spanish, she said, and was glad to find people “viewing my video and connecting with it despite the language differences.” Her experience hints at how the “Anti-Romantic” dance challenge spread so rapidly across the world. On June 27, when the number of videos for the challenge had exceeded 100,000, TOMORROW X TOGETHER joined in with a different kind of challenge: an “Anti-Romantic” lip sync. Their video was viewed 4.5 million times in the first day alone.

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TikTok’s unique personalized recommendations works such that “related content is suggested not only to users who like K-pop, but also to users who could potentially like K-pop, depending on their preferences,” said Jay Bae, head of global business development at TikTok Korea. Even if you’re not following any K-pop artists, there’s a good chance that, if many of the videos that fall within your areas of interest use their music, content related to their songs will be recommended to you. This leads to people discovering new artists and hearing music that they didn’t even realize they would like. This is one of the reasons that TikTok has had such a notable influence on the music industry within the past several years. It’s equally likely that, once the dance challenge kicked off, these personalized recommendations pushed “Anti-Romantic” to make its way into the feeds of TikTok users who could potentially be interested in TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s music. “Anti-Romantic” maintained a steady amount of streams in the US after its first week and actually saw increases in Mexico and Brazil. It can be assumed that it was the foothold that TOMORROW X TOGETHER has on TikTok as well as in countries like the US that drove TikTokers to quickly make a lot of dance challenge videos and that those videos spread far and wide through recommendations.

On top of that, “Anti-Romantic” is in the most unique situation among all the tracks off the same album, The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE. “Anti-Romantic” placed 158th on the Spotify US 200 chart on the day of its release, placing higher than the lead single, “0X1-LOVESONG (I know I love you) feat. Seori” (173rd). According to Google Trends, in the time between May 31—when the album was released—until the announcement of The Chaos Chapter: FIGHT OR ESCAPE, the top three global search terms related to TOMORROW X TOGETHER were all in reference to “Anti-Romantic” (“anti romantic,” “txt anti romantic” and “anti romantic lyrics”). During the same timeframe, interest in the group was also highest in the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Japan, respectively, while the countries showing the most interest in “Anti-Romantic,” in order, were Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Brazil, South Africa, Colombia and the US. It seems “Anti-Romantic” had a far-reaching appeal beyond simply the fanbase. For example, TOMORROW X TOGETHER released a TikTok video on July 2 using the Duet function, which allows users to split the screen and place their video beside an existing one. In this case, the group sang along with an earlier video from salem ilese, who is among the writers on “Anti-Romantic.” While the TOMORROW X TOGETHER account had seen an average of around 20,000 new followers per day, that figure shot up to 50,000, and while there had been many Google searches for the song coming from countries like Brunei, Sri Lanka, Azerbaijan, Switzerland, Chile and South Africa, this shifted afterward to Armenia, Morocco, Colombia, Venezuela, Denmark, Belarus, Egypt and Korea. Apparently, some of the group’s new followers had fallen in love with “Anti-Romantic” after seeing the dance challenge. The challenge also found new fans in a more diverse set of countries.

Zuki said she chose to dance to the song because the “voice was so soothing and the instrumental was so minimalistic it gave the song more sincerity.” Not only was the music itself good, but it sparked her interest in TOMORROW X TOGETHER so that she looked up more of their material afterward and kept making videos related to them. “I didn’t expect it to have much success on TikTok specifically,” Nicole Kim, leader of BIGHIT MUSIC’s A&R Team, said, diving into what led teenage TikTokers like Zuki to respond to “Anti-Romantic.” “But I was sure the music was perfectly suited for Gen Z around the world from the moment I got the demo made by Alex Hope and salem ilese.” Kim Bo Ram, also from the A&R Team, revealed how “We Lost the Summer,” which had done well in North America, became a reference point when finding TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s pop sound: “We saw how this song that trendy singer-songwriter Charli XCX worked on to simultaneously capture trends in both K-pop and contemporary pop had a good response,” she said. “Rather than something overly sad, we wrote bitter, self-deprecating lyrics because we were trying to escape being too typical and represent Generation Z,” suggesting the style of the lyrics also played a part in the song’s popularity. In fact, “TXT [has] their unique style and concept,” according to Irene. “They have a fresh and lighter sound,” she said, “yet when interpreting their lyrics, they tend to be deep and dark,” and the group’s songs reflect “many of the feelings and experiences teenagers encounter. It is not a surprise that so many people across the globe find comfort and a connection with them.” Mariah, a TikToker, performed the “Anti-Romantic” dance at the ceremony where she accepted first place for a tumbling competition and uploaded the video, which has been viewed more than five million times. “I love the way that [TOMORROW X TOGETHER] create a safe space” for others their age to feel comfort, she said, as well as how “they know how to lead with confidence … through their music.”

So, while the “Anti-Romantic” dance challenge demonstrates how a K-pop song can spread across the world through social media, it also shows why TOMORROW X TOGETHER is particularly influential on TikTok. The first thing TOMORROW X TOGETHER released for “Anti-Romantic” was a short film on their official TikTok account on May 27, four days before their comeback. The group was collaborating with Korean TikTok creator Sihyun Rania to produce videos for all eight songs off The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE, with the video for “Anti-Romantic,” the album’s first track, naturally kicking off the project. The videos took advantage of TikTok’s short format and platform-specific techniques through quick transitions, slick editing and videos that were tailored to the mood of each individual song. The “Anti-Romantic” video garnered over nine million views, more than 30,000 comments in languages ranging from English to Indonesian, Spanish and Korean, and some 1.9 million likes. Users expressed appreciation for how passionately TOMORROW X TOGETHER was using TikTok and excitedly commented about the group’s grasp of the ins and outs of the service. Comments calling the boys musical.ly kings and raving how they’re even good at musical.ly (referencing the short-form social media service that was popular with teens in the US, Canada and other English-speaking countries and merged with TikTok in 2018) collectively were liked by over 5,000 people, and one commenting about how good the group’s transition game is had over 12,000 likes. In another video, whose title translates to “#JustinSOOBIN” and used a slowed down version of Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” SOOBIN covered an existing dance challenge by filming himself lip-syncing in the mirror with a lovelorn look on his face. The video received so much reception on the day it was posted that the TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s TikTok account picked up 80,000 more followers compared to the previous day.

The TOMORROW X TOGETHER members “create videos that exceed expectations by interjecting with clever comments or discovering points that are crucial,” Yu Ji Yeon, also with HYBE 360 Artist Content Studio, said. “They turn out well because they watch a lot of videos posted on TikTok and share them with their friends.” YEONJUN personally suggested he do a dance cover of the popular “Nowhere to Go (Quarantine Love)” that he “saw all over TikTok and wanted to try” and specifically uploaded the video on a Monday with a hashtag translating to “#MTWTFSSKeepItUpEverybody.” BEOMGYU lip-syncing to multiple characters from Black Rubber Shoes, TAEHYUN comparing one month of exercise to one year and HUENINGKAI’s cover of “good 4 u” were all made based on things the members were interested in or that were trending at the time. Lee Da Min, another employee from the Artist Content Studio, said that “the members use TikTok like it’s a game. Everyone agreed that creators should enjoy playing with TikTok so that the viewers can also enjoy themselves and the service can become a playground where everyone can express themselves.”

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Whether they’re making music or TikTok videos, TOMORROW X TOGETHER has been in step with their Generation Z peers, and as their output accumulates, more and more Gen Z followers come to experience what the group is all about. In that respect, there could be more opportunities to let the wider world know about them the way the “Anti-Romantic” dance challenge did. Bae, the TikTok executive, felt that the challenge “expresses the international creators’ own creativity through their choreography inspired by the artist’s music, and the chemistry from that combination of music and choreography really resonated with a lot of people and led them to feel similarly and have fun, which is a very TikTok-esque and ideal outcome.” That’s also the reason why TOMORROW X TOGETHER, when they showed a trailer for their LO$ER OR LO♡ER would-you-rather game via TikTok on August 17, could write, “Let’s find out together tomorrow with the one and only TikTok Kings!”—because they have the confidence to accept whatever phenomena arise from the chemistry between K-pop, TikTok and Generation Z as if they were playing a game.

#txt #tomorrow x together #210915 #weverse magazine #soobin #yeonjun #beomgyu #taehyun #hueningkai #anti romantic #article

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marvel-daily-mantra · 3 years

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Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia breaks multiple Spotify records

Future Nostalgia is the second studio album by English singer Dua Lipa, released on 27 March 2020 by Warner Records. Lipa enlisted writers and producers such as Jeff Bhasker, Ian Kirkpatrick, Stuart Price, the Monsters & Strangerz, and Koz in order to create a "nostalgic" pop and disco record with influences from dance-pop and electronic music, inspired by the music that Lipa enjoyed during her childhood.

The album spawned six singles, along with the title track as a promotional single. "Don't Start Now" was released on 31 October 2019, as the album's lead single, attaining both critical and commercial success. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Physical" and "Break My Heart" were released as the second and third singles, respectively, both reaching the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart. "Hallucinate" and a remix of "Levitating" featuring DaBaby were released as the fourth and fifth singles on 17 July and 1 October 2020, respectively; the latter earned the album its second top-two single on the Hot 100 and the third top-ten of Lipa's career, following "New Rules" (2017). "Love Again" was released as the sixth single in France on 11 March 2021 and globally on 4 June 2021. The album was originally scheduled to be released on 3 April 2020, but was moved forward after leaking in its entirety two weeks earlier. To promote the album, Lipa is slated to embark on the Future Nostalgia Tour, commencing in February 2022 after being postponed three times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Upon its release, Future Nostalgia received universal acclaim from music critics, many of whom praised the production and its cohesion. Commercially, the album topped the charts in fifteen countries and reached the top ten in thirty-one countries. In the United Kingdom, it peaked atop the UK Albums Chart for four non-consecutive weeks, becoming her first album to do so as well as garnering her first ever nomination for the Mercury Prize, and earning the Brit Award for British Album of the Year. At the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, Future Nostalgia was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Pop Vocal Album, whilst "Don't Start Now" was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

Future Nostalgia was succeeded by its remix album, Club Future Nostalgia, released on 28 August 2020. A French edition of Future Nostalgia was released on 27 November 2020, which yielded the single "Fever". A reissue of the album, subtitled The Moonlight Edition, was released through Warner on 11 February 2021, along with its lead single, "We're Good".

Dua Lipa’s second album, Future Nostalgia, has broken three separate records on Spotify. They are: the most streamed album in a day (or first day) by a British female artist globally; the most streamed album in a day (or first day) by a British female artist in the UK; and the most streamed album in a day (or first day) by a British female artist in the US.

Spotify has not provided specific stats for any of these three records or who previously held the records for each. It is, however, pointing to the fact that the album was released in an enhanced format for streaming – the ‘Future Nostalgia Experience’. That playlist iteration of the album has 278k followers on Spotify and has full promo videos for singles ‘Physical’ and ‘Don’t Start Now’ as well as a short intro video from Lipa and short videos (all between 15 and 30 seconds long) tied to four different tracks on the album where she talks about the inspiration behind them and their creation.

At the time of writing, Dua Lipa is the third biggest artist on Spotify with 57.1 million monthly listeners. 1

0 days after release, the album’s tracks have just under 932m streams on Spotify, although most of those plays are for lead singles ‘Don’t Start Now’ (648.2m since its release in early November 2019) and ‘Physical’ (149.4m since its release at the end of January). The remaining nine tracks average 14.9m streams each so far.

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wehatejulietsimms · 2 years

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Hi Jinx here again sorry for the spam but I really want to go more in-depth with 'Anarchy'. So first, Allison Hagendorf and Sirius XM Octane aren't the only reasons Anarchy was played on the radio so much that it's on #26 of Billboard's Rock Mainstream chart and #1 on their Recurrent chart, but also because Mike at Indiegoot, Lilith's management company, admitted to hounding a bunch of radio stations and their program directors about Lilith and some of their other artists. This basically guarantees that Indigoot gives the station more access to interviews with their bigger artists if they play their smaller artists' songs. That's basically what happened in April, May, and June. It worked a little but not as much as other artists like Plush who released 'Hate' around the same time as 'King' was released and it charted longer and made Octane's Big Uns countdown at the end of the year even though they didn't release a full album under October of last year and they didn't have nearly as much pushing or connections (David Draman from 'Distrubed' even name-dropped them as a female band to watch). Juliet's social media numbers are also still continuing to drop which is very weird considering all the exposure she is getting from Spotify, Loudwire, Octane, et cetera. A theory about this is that Lilith's music is mainly attracting older people, around and over forty years old, people who don't use social media as much. This could be especially the case with 'Anarchy' which was intended to be a 'fuck you society' anthem but since it was released in early 2021 it most likely appealed to older anti-mask and anti-vaccine people (the song is all about not letting 'society' tell you what to do after all) plus in the music video, the 'Silenced' are wearing masks and are chained up (not saying Anarchy is about mask mandates, but if I heard this song and didn't know who Juliet/Lilith was that would be my first guess at what it was about). And when you bought from and endorsed from a brand that's anti-BLM in that same music video, it's not a very good look when the song is supposed to be a fuck you society anthem. Not to mention that many of Lilith's recent followers have been older people and a lot of the people who watched her play live while she was opening for Halestorm and Evanscence and her few small gigs were older people and not wearing masks. And looking at her socials- Anarchy views on YouTube are still extremely low, Spotify streams are slowing and are mostly because of the popular rock playlists Anarchy was put on, her Spotify monthly streamers are dropping by thousands, her follow count on Instagram is still dropping, et cetera. And it's very common for older people to not seek out artists whose one song they like. Also, 'Anarchy' sounds like it was Juliet piggybacking off of the BLM protests from 2020 but she has no BLM posts or other social justice concerns, and then she released Created From Filth and Dust so there is almost no evidence to what she's really singing about. She promised fans she would bring more attention to BLM and other issues but didn't. And a lot of her songs have a problem with publicity. King is toxic feminism, Lola is a simple soft guitar ballad and those rarely get any attention, Anarchy is supposed to be an outsider anthem the management did promotions and publicity wrong and artists don't get to choose who latches onto an anthem and who it 'belongs' to. Lilith's management and establishment don't know how to promote and market in this decade at all and if you write a song with this kind of imagery you better watch how it gets used and who uses it and for what. Other than that, her songs and album didn't go as far as she had hoped. She never hit the Billboards Top 200 chart, didn't get as many fans as she had hoped, her social media numbers are dropping, despite being exposed to hundreds of thousands of people due to Spotify and popular radio stations her Spotify follow count is still only at sixteen thousand, et cetera. This only happens you have fans who like a song but don't care much about the

actual artist, which you mostly see with older people. It would explain why her merch hasn't been touched on Sumerian's page even after a year, especially the masks. Compare this to Plush who went on the same tour with Halestorm and Evanescence and got way more followers and real supporters despite having less connections and exposure. Juliet wasn't marketed in the right way and both her supposedly 'progressive' songs are just performative activism sending the wrong messages and reaching a bad audience. And yeah that's it thanks for coming to my TED Talk ✌🏽

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xcziel · 3 years

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get to know me

tagged by @vishcount (thank you!!) and i'll follow her format bc making two posts seems a little much - i'm not that interesting!!

(hilariously, this post shows up as blocked for me bc of the tag 'joker' which? tumblr?????)

Part I

name: i'm an internet old, so i never use my real name online, mainly because it's spelled in a very unique way (thanks mom & dad) - i mean like, if you googled it you could find my home address in a few seconds kind of unique - but also, though i do enjoy the spelling, i actually don't like it very much when it's said out loud? (is it weird that my name written down is 'me', but my name aloud has never felt like 'me'?) always wanted a nickname but never acquired one :/

at any rate, i've had the username xcziel forever and i go by that 😊 (pronounced ex-SEE-zee-el, similar to etc. or ex-SET-er-ah! thanks @xia-xueyi for pointing out that it can be confusing to guess!)

rest behind a cut because it got long!

pronouns: she/her

star sign: i don't ... really *do* astrology? but technically saggitarius

height: 5'4" (162.5cm for the intl folks)

time: 5:43pm but these thing take me forever to type out so ... ???

birthday: playing the 'internet old' card again .. but it floats around american Thanksgiving depending on the year

nationality: american

fave bands/groups/solo artists: lumping these together because i just .. don't really do music much anymore. if you had asked me this back in my 20s i'm sure i would have had all kinds of opinions and things to share, but these days i actually mostly prefer to listen music from when i was a kid. part of it is also that as an old, i prefer to buy my music, even digitally, and i don't really use spotify - which does so much to enable diverse music exploration i admit! but i mostly have earplugs in all the time and music does not work for me as background noise, so...

so i guess my answer would be 70s disco and classic rock and 80s new wave artists? i've never liked any artist's entire discography and prefer greatest hits-type compilations, but i guess duran duran and def leppard and depeche mode would be considered formative? i love new order but specifically late 80s new order, NOT joy division. the only concert t-shirt i've ever worn was the cult? i loved sonic temple but i can't listen to most of it anymore though i still adore love removal machine. i think maybe if you get old enough, for some of us there's TOO MUCH good music and we can't pare it down anymore

song stuck in your head: jamiroquai's canned heat

last movie you watched: re: the above, i re-watched center stage, the 2000 one with zoe saldana and the mandy moore soundtrack, bc it's a happy comfort movie and i just got a digital version

last show you binged: i can't really "binge" very often bc after a couple of hours i need a break, so i guess i'd say the tgcf donghua on netflix since it was short enough to get through all in one go

when you created your blog: in 2012 i stopped lurking so i could post about the avengers movie

the last thing you googled: 5'4" in cm? lol before that it was chinese wrapped street food

other blogs: everything is here! i discovered i compartmentalize about as well as i tag reliably (😓) but i do have several automated ao3feed-tag style sideblogs. and i did, very briefly, have a *winces* hockey sideblog too

why i chose my url: ooh i know i've done this before, sorry if it's repetitive, basically it was the username i picked back when my family first got aol: short, unique combo of letters - 14-year-old me really thought about it! and then it wouldn't let me use anything other than my name. thirty-some-odd years later, trying to come up with a livejournal username that wasn't already taken and getting fed up, i plugged it in and went: good enough!

how many people are you following: like 760-something last i checked? although many, many, many of them are deactivated

how many followers do you have: idk i don't like looking at that stuff, but way fewer than i am following

average hours of sleep: it varies too much day by day, my sleep schedule is too wonky, i have no idea what the average would be

lucky numbers: 7? cliché i know, and again not really buying into it, but somewhere in my hindbrain i like it that my first, middle, and last names all have seven letters

instruments: none. i like singing

what i'm currently wearing: giant black t-shirt and baggy black drawstring shorts, standard sitting around the house gear

dream job: don't have one. if i did it would give me something to be working towards *sigh* this is how you end up in retail for decades, kids! but also, to quote a random post i saw in true tumblr fashion "i simply do not dream of labor"

dream trip: covered this one before but: back to the uk and some railway daytrips, or a really fancy northern cruise, atlantic/pacific either one

fave food: uhhh, don't really have a favorite but i'm almost always in the mood for pizza

top three fictional universe you'd like to live in: none really, if i had to still be me..maybe some kind of actually utopian future? but the pandemic has confirmed for me that i do NOT like living in interesting times, so most fictional story universes are RIGHT out. my favorites to read about like discworld or diana wynne jones' worlds would be way to chaotic for my comfort. possibly diane duane's young wizards universe would be safe enough to be okay?

Part II

last song: watching center stage made me think of my dance playlist so sunrise by simply red

last movielast stream: i don't watch streams or youtube often, so it was the same as you, vish! liu chang's birthday stream was SO enjoyable i screenrecorded the entire thing just so i could play it back (and maybe gif sometime if i ever get the drive to actually do it)

currently reading: well i just finished the translated quan qiu gao kao or global university entrance exam novel, which was sparked purely from catching a single rec post here on tumblr and basically just *falling* into this 166 chapter epic that is *amazing* and not coming up for air until i got to the end, which is typical novel-reading behavior for me (yes i was the kid who read through lunch period and got hassled by people who kept pestering me with "what're you reading" questions and yes i realize probably a lot of you on tumblr were too) plus, the new murderbot novel is out tomorrow!!!!! so that'll be where i end up next!

currently watching: the entire dmbj verse (that i can get my hands on) but ... sporadically and stopping at random different parts because the thing is ... this type of show is not really the kind i enjoy so much? so since it's more for "research" and learning character arcs (and let's be honest: shots of liu sang), etc. it's easy to get distracted by other stuff. i'm also watching the sleuth of the ming dynasty, mr queen, bromance, the expanse, re-watching farscape and stargate sg-1, just finished the falcon and the winter soldier, and then anytime something new and short gets introduced it jumps the queue. there are just. so. many. things. to. watch! (now i have to look into anti-fraud league too!? you all are cruel ...)

what is antipoetry to you: i ... don't really think much about poetry? i know what i prefer is usually the more basic rhymed kind like lewis carroll, emily dickinson, poe, coleridge, etc. so i suppose i don't have much use for classifying non-rhyming verse? i can appreciate stuff like rupi kaur which i guess would qualify? or that william carlos williams plums poem? but it doesn't really stick with me the way lyric-like verse does

currently craving: i never know what exactly this is meant to be in reference to ... hmmm, i would love a new high-concept, high production-quality movie like say, pacific rim, to be released, just for that massive, excited energy that comes with something new that hasn't already got tons of disappointing or conflicting history behind it - that would be so fun!!

other than that, right now, i mostly kinda want some fried fish? but that will have to wait until i go to get my second vaccine shot on wednesday since it's on the way there. i'd also like my internal body parts to settle down and fly right but it's been more than a month and they don't seem inclined :(((( maybe once i'm fully vaxxed i'll think about consulting somebody about it

tagging @foxofninetales @xia-xueyi @momosandlemonsoda @memorydragon @thewindsofsong @elvencantation @mylastbraincql @hesayshesgotboyfriend @aurawolfgirl2000 @smaragdine-galaxy and anyone who wants to! but never feel obligated and if you don't get around to it for like half a year that's totally fine, i am still interested!!!

#xcedit #is my only like 'me' tag #tag game #long post #i wanna do one of these with more unusual questions but not like those themed ones ...#tell me if the cut doesn't work i'm still not used to having them on mobile!

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seasurfacefullofclouds1 · 3 years

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I have no fucking idea how to explain myself. As a Louie, sometimes other solo Stans hate you for not believing in Freddie being Louis' son. Sometimes, people are asking you why do you despise harry styles. I'm just tired of defending myself and my views.

How's it going for you sea? Also, could you link your harry post? Why don't you like him anymore, so I can just show that to people instead of taking about it myself? We all know that they'll just say it's management's fault anyway.

And what do you think about el changing her username? I don't really like her or anything, but what does this mean for Louis? Any chance of a break up soon? And when will he change his Twitter bio😩

Hey!

How are you? Thanks for the message. No one needs to believe what I write— it’s definitely not gospel and if new information comes along, I would reconsider everything in context. I’m not too proud to say I’m wrong!

Here’s a summary on Harry.

Here’s the context. I loved who Harry was and had the potential to become, but he isn’t that person anymore. He chose a different path.

About the statement, “they’ll just blame it on management,” here is a thought.

Either Harry is going along with the ruthless power of industry, or he is being “coerced” to succeed.

Either way, why would fans support this system?

Larries criticized Project Defenceless because “streaming Louis on Spotify takes revenue away from independent artists.”

Isn’t supporting Harry also building— enriching— rewarding industry on a much bigger scale? Let’s say, on a scale of 1 billion streams for Watermelon Sugar. How many streams did that take away from indie artists, versus the six or seven million streams that Project Defenceless generated? That’s the scale we are comparing, a 10^3 magnitude of difference. Despite the popularity of the Project, Defenceless has a total of ~30 million streams. How is that the same magnitude as HLD’s “every Harry song to 100 million” project??

If Larries are philosophically and ethically consistent, shouldn’t they stop ALL streaming, ALL revenue toward Harry Styles, in order to do their part in correcting an unfair system?

They won’t.

So why are they manufacturing insincere objections to Project Defenceless? It’s not the first time they’ve done it.

It’s hypocrisy like this that makes me angry.

Some of Harry’s fans (especially Larries) intellectualize systemic industry injustice, pacify their followers with fake outrage and social justice talking points.

They call Louies delusional and paranoid for pointing out facts (which I always try to link).

They drive the rational part of the fandom out with their bullying and sheer emotional abuse. They play on the anxiety of the fandom.

Why should fandom tolerate this?

Don’t you just want to say what you think, without people cancelling you? Don’t you want to point out that the emperor has no clothes, instead of collectively agreeing that some ugly photoshoot looks great?

Also, whether Louis is a dad or not, if people can’t understand how this issue has been used against him— and how fandom’s obsession about it is detrimental to Louis— then this is our great shame.

As for Eleanor, maybe she’s launching a great influencer career. It seems a paltry reward for ten years of her life, but it is her choice, alas.

(I think the most followers I’ve ever lost in a single day was ~250, but that’s the way it goes. Tumblr/ fandom/ the internet isn’t worth compromising your sense of self. You are not your follower count, the number of likes, the number of reblogs. It’s not real. Let it go.)

#eleanor calder #harry styles #one direction fandom #26 february 2021

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kholran · 3 years

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Tagged by @vishcount, thank you as always, friend!

Part I

name: You can call me Khol

pronouns: She/her

star sign: aries ♈ <--Same

height: 5′3″, give or take

time: 11:58 pm

birthday: 10th april! <--Same! We’re birthday twins.

nationality: American (Spanish/English/Dutch)

fave bands/groups: L’Arc~en~Ciel, Within Temptation, Nightwish

fave solo artists: HYDE, LAY, William Chan, Lucie Jones, a lot of Theatre People (tm)

song stuck in your head: The end theme from The Long Ballad

last movie you watched: Every time I link Sha Hai Side Story Hua Mei to someone, I end up watching it again, so probably that.

last show you binged: I watch cdrama with my mom so “binging” happens rather slowly, but the last full show we watched was Nice To Meet You, starring Zhang Ming En and Janice Man

when you created your blog: March 2012 according to my email

the last thing you googled: I’m sure it was something for a fic but I don’t remember what it was now.

other blogs: thegreymajor (Outlander/Lord John sideblog), ijustreallylikeelves (Tolkien sideblog), littleblackmare (equine/photography blog that i haven’t updated in years)

why i chose my url: I made up the name for an RP character back in college, and while I didn’t end up playing the character very much, I stole his name for my screenname and have been using it ever since. Since it IS made up, it’s usually available to use- and if you see it anywhere else online, it’s probably me.

how many people are you following: 362

how many followers do you have: 474

average hours of sleep: Not enough. Like less than 7 most days oops

lucky numbers: 3 which I chose at random when I was like 8 because it was the saddle blanket number of The Black Stallion in the match race and I was obsessed with that movie as a kid

instruments: No instruments. I can sing though.

what i’m currently wearing: Black pj pants and a black zip hoodie with a red Arabian horse embroidered on the left side

dream job: Cat behaviourist and rescue/rehabber

dream trip: At this point I’d be happy going to New Jersey. Like anywhere that isn’t my living room or work.

fave food: Rice (fixed in various ways) and noodles (fixed in various ways, this does include pasta)

top three fictional universes you’d like to live in: Gonna steal the DMBJ universe answer, only because that would give me a very slim chance of meeting Liu Sang and/or Zhang Rishan in real life. And they’d still be too cool for me. I’ll still say Middle Earth. Rohan in peacetime would be cool because ponies everywhere. And um. I don’t even really go here but the world in the Golden Compass seems cool? With little animal familiars? Good stuff.

Part II

Last Song: "You Love Who You Love” from Bonnie & Clyde (the musical) before I stopped Spotify to watch TV. I guess technically it would be the opening song from Colbert? That’s what’s on now.

Last Movie Last Stream: I’ll also go with the edited question, even though it has the same answer: Liu Chang’s birthday livestream. I wanted to catch his segment on the video game (Chinese Ghost Story? I thnk?) stream on Friday but it was too late for me to stay up.

Currently Reading: Catching up with @merinnan and @xantissa‘s The Zhang Identity fic. It’s SO GOOD. If you haven’t read it yet please do.

Currently Watching: The Long Ballad, which is also excellent. I don’t usually go for historical cdrama but this one is amazing. I started watching it because Waer was in it but now I’m attached to just about everyone.

What is antipoetry to you: ??? If this question was earlier, THIS would have been “What’s the last thing you Googled?”. To me it just just means...idk being against poetry? I really have no strong feelings about it one way or the other.

Currently craving: A vacation.

#things i'm tagged in #about me

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