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Post by Jablea on Jul 2, 2019 0:42:43 GMT -5
CIH got on a new playlist, curated by Spotify, today called Virgo - open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX6PdsVYbP4rIIt's not my cup of tea after listening to most of the 30 songs but it's got 53,000 followers with a good percentage of active listeners and CIH is in the top third.
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Post by Jablea on Jul 2, 2019 0:20:40 GMT -5
Hey I feel silly, but Soundcloud counts to Adam over all sales/streams hits right?? Does its work combined with Streams, or with separate streaming buying/stream platforms, or do they just add it up -sort of forgot? Curious how streaming thing really works. Does it just count on one platform like Spotify, or do they count all platforms?? If you get what I mean. Also, I think no one posted CIH on QAL on facebook. PS I was right, Adam is just putting out the slow songs out so they can be streamed. lol I knew it. The bigger songs are coming in September, he just wants Streams. Smart, I say. And he gets more $$$ They do pay but it's not (or it wasn't) based on streams and artists say they don't make money. They have been making changes to payment structure but it's more of a discovery platform than money making. Both Adams SoundCloud fans and Deezer fans have been increasing from one or two a day from before NE to more in the 5-10 range daily which reflects the total usage of those platforms but seeing the increase per day is great. In contrast he gets 400-500 new followers every day on Spotify.
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Post by Jablea on Jun 30, 2019 16:29:47 GMT -5
Two beautiful moving stories here today! My eyes a sweating. As i also stated last year when my friend came out that just being informed just made it easier to "guide" him. svca i've heard Taylor makes over a Million a day...the rights to her song could be VERY high but If Scooter can afford them she definately can. I don't know what you mean with Scooter Not in very high remark but i have stated my dislike for the man. They, or at least Scott Borchetta who is still going to be running Big Machine, doesn't want to sell her records back. From my quick reading she tried to buy them before her move to UMG and they said they'd sell her one record for each new record she made for them. She said that felt like a really bad move.
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Post by Jablea on Jun 29, 2019 11:02:50 GMT -5
An interesting read for those of you wondering what Spotify is doing to music - yes doing as opposed to reflecting. I listened to some of the artists listed and found the article's description pretty accurate. thebaffler.com/downstream/streambait-pop-pellyHere's a portion: The Spotify sound has a few different variations, but essentially it’s a formula. “It has this soft, emo-y, cutesy thing to it,” Matt says. “These days it’s often really minimal and based around just a few simple elements in verses. Often a snap in the verses. And then the choruses sometimes employ vocal samples. It’s usually kind of emo in lyrical nature.” Then there’s also a more electronic, DJ-oriented variation, which is “based around a drop . . . It’s usually a chilled-out verse with a kind of coo-y vocal. And then it builds up and there’s a drop built around a melody that’s played with a vocal sample.” It makes sense that pop has been going largely in this emo-ish direction, one that is more “chilled” (to use a word that platform seems to like) despite taking on heavy topics. We live in an increasingly isolated culture, and, more and more, music listening is something that happens in solitude via headphones as opposed to collectively. Pop music today is less about big, upbeat, going-out-partying anthems, which have been replaced by smaller, more introspective tunes about internal quandaries. The sound of Spotify, as Matt defines it, is also “very Lana”—“When we think of pioneers of a sound, there’s almost no one else I can think of more than Lana del Rey . . . Her singing style and that bleakness, and the hip-hop influenced production, paved the way for all of this.”
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Post by Jablea on Jun 29, 2019 5:56:16 GMT -5
It has some interesting sections but it's a bit of a clunky read. I can't tell when he's referring to something Adam said or something the author is thinking. Even when using quotes like about the friend it's hard to tell if it's Adam's friend or the author's friend. And a variety of phrasing not matching from the first part of sentences to the last part like in the Madonna section. Perhaps he's not an English first writer?
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Post by Jablea on Jun 28, 2019 17:27:45 GMT -5
I appreciate that he finally found a suit that fit him! It hits him in the right spot below the hip instead of at it. It has one button instead of 2. (I hate that extra button that isn't buttoned style although it looks fine on the vest). Chestbert is always great and the roll up sleeves work for him. Hope he picks more like this for red carpets. Yeah to Beatles tailor.
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Post by Jablea on Jun 28, 2019 15:52:05 GMT -5
Wow...I went to this person's tweet and not only is she stereotyping a whole fandom with her comments but there are comments by Glamberts using words there like ..."we are not all. OLD..RICH..ENTITLED", "it is the OLD AGRESSIVE..". On a day that we are suppose to be celebrating being Proud in who we are with no apologies..inclusion, acceptance, love, and making friends...I find these comments disappointing and not at all in the spirit Adam was expressing today. Stand PROUD if you are OLD, young, gay, straight, black, white and everything inbetween, rich, poor...because we are all important and have worth. And I'll be damned if I am letting anyone make me feel'small' because of my age or anything else that makes me "ME". I do not do well with stereotyping...so this situation just hit me the wrong way. Sorry. Be proud and stand tall!✌🌈 And how do we know if this person was not the problem and just looking for attention? Adam is allowed to have fans and we should not just automatically take blame for anything someone says about us. I remember when Adam was a mentor on RuPaul's drag race and that Queen was so rude to him. By the time the press was done, it made it look like Adam was the problem when she just didn't want to hear anything Adam had to say. Ugh! I don't know who this person is but Adam did a fantastic job and his fans (different types and ages) were there to see him. Hope we can keep that celebration going. They attended something that Adam was introduced at, I'm thinking the Youtube event. Can't find the reason for why she didn't like Glamberts, but not everyone has to like us. The issue I think adamrocks saw was that "so-called Glamberts" were replying to her and throwing those of us over a certain age under the bus.
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Post by Jablea on Jun 28, 2019 15:31:25 GMT -5
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Post by Jablea on Jun 28, 2019 6:04:16 GMT -5
Just to say....I have seen Adam record a couple of tv things and his voice seems, at the time, to be ‘lost’ in the mix....but when the performance is aired, the balance is there. Not sure how it works but there is something different about the way a for television (or for YouTube?) performance is produced...not the same sound for the live audience as if intended for the live audience. Even his performance at the last GMA - from the audience his voice seemed a little thin and quiet - but watching the TV performance back, it was neither. Edit: and as per Jablea above... I'm betting they only feed his ear monitors with the TV stream sound and since it's not his setup he goes by what they give him versus having someone out in the room. I remember he had to work with Idol when he was one to give more full bodied sound to the tv stream. He built clout with them to let the group performances be live etc and the tv sound mix was never better for actually hearing the singers before and since his year.
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Post by Jablea on Jun 27, 2019 23:30:47 GMT -5
I'll wait for a good video. We often hear how bad something is only to find out that the people there loved the performance. And often the video is much better that what we were first told. I think it was the space. The instruments were loud but the vocal mic didn't sound like it was hooked to a speaker. Seemed that way in the rehearsal vid too. However I think in the control room vid sound seemed normal. And since it was being recorded for youtube release then the sound going into the recording booth is the most important.
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