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McDonald did an internal investigation and concluded that “Strange” had hit the algorithmic jackpot not because of Galaxie 500’s unique musical style, but because the song was more similar to songs by other bands than Galaxie 500’s other tracks. In many cases, if “Strange” played, the listener was unlikely to hit the Skip or Stop button, and so the
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How Groceries Got Gentrified, With Snaxshot's Andrea Hernández
Snaxshottheculturejournalist.substack.com
I see metalabels, or small and extremely value-aligned media DAOs, as a possible solution to the crisis in tastemaking.A lot of web3 media thinkers talk about the curation layer of media. How curation is the new creation. How decentralized media is more about curating the good stuff than actually creating the good stuff. That layer is exactly what ... See more
Samantha Marin • Metalabels will be the tastemakers of the internet
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Rythm [sic] Syndicate.
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
But it doesn’t feel too early to ask what might happen in a world where artists keep more or even most of the value that they create. This is personally relevant to me, of course, as a creative type who also stepped away from a “major” — a staff job at a big publication — in favor of selling my work directly to readers. But the larger cultural cons... See more
Casey Newton • Is the music industry's future on the blockchain?
There are essentially two business models right now: boring, useful things that can print money and tastemaker brands that can brute force cultural relevancy.
Dumb $ is funding the middle: stuff that is neither useful nor cool enough to make it past current startup headwinds.
Yglesias’s newsletter, “Slow Boring,” has a readership that includes more than six thousand paid subscribers, and he is making twenty-seven thousand dollars a month