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Monthly Music 08/24 Hehehe

Albums/Multi Song Section:

Taemin released a mini album. Honestly, listen to all of it, even the more ballad-y fare but honestly... Sexy In the Air is a track EVERYONE should give a shot. It's what it says on the tin--sexy. Highlights: Horizon, if you like Kavinsky but want a kpop, energy-infused twist, try this out! (ITS A REACH BUT!!). Crush has some MJ-esque delivery that is very enthralling. Deju Vu is for the people who want to feel songs vibrate in their bones and in their [redacted]

Tinashe released her follow-up to the (superior) BB/Angel! My faves are No Simulation, Thirsty, When I Get You Alone, + No Broke Boys. Chill, alt R&B. Ethereal, sensual. Tinashe and Taemin should collab or at least do choreo to each other's songs tbh. NBB is a modern reimagining of No Scrubs

Foster the People is baack. BIASED REVIEW because I'm a longterm fan. See You in the Afterlife (oddly cunty??), Feed Me (cuntier except some of the instrumental could've been produced on Gene Belcher's random sound keyboard), Paradise State of Mind (Tame Impala knock off, mayhaps), & Glitchzig (discordant, extraterrestrial).

Fromis_9, a kpop group, has had a mini release. Here's a mini review: Supersonic & Beat the Heat have a throwback appeal. Simple, joyful pop with a non-obtrusive vocal power behind it. Talent wins <3

JPEGMAFIA released a new album and it's... beyond explanation? Alt hip hop with an amazing infusion of rock, gospel, dance elements. Dark, funny, slick as hell. Highlights: i scream this in the mirror before i interact with anyone, sin miedo (my fave, I think), don't rely on other men, vulgar display of power, Exmilitary (great use of samples), JPEGULTRA! (denzel!!!!!!!!! HORNS!!!!!!!!1), either on or off the drugs (one of my faves, absolutely), & loop it and leave it. If you're like "that's a lot of songs," okay well the entire album is good. 9.9/10 album

Recent Releases:

"Feel The Way" Peggy Gou. Just a solid dance track.

Ibibio Sound Machine's Black Notes is groovy and vocally ascendant.

"Leave" Low Hanging Fruits is Krock that feels straight out like... mid 2000s alt-pop rock. Just lively and lovely.

My blog title was taken from a Chase & Status song, so of course I need to shout out their collab with Stormzy, "Backbone." Just goes hard, is grimy as hell, and goes WUB WUB.

Want something that goes harder? Petit Brabancon, Japanese metal supergroup, is back and "Gankou" is... growling and intense and also just kinda fun.

Not here for music that might be a bit scary? "Edge of Saturday Night" The Blessed Madonna, Kylie Minogue is some eurodance to take the edge off.

If you like that track, try "Urallineed" by Jazzi Bobbi for some vaguely dancy indie pop. Love her voice.

This could've gone on the album review but honestly... Monkey Majik's new album is kinda Maroon 5-y and doesn't deserve a full shout out but give HYLMN a listen if you want to hear a fun, misremembered rip off of Blur's Song 2. Also, I guess the song Imposter.

"Check" by Flo is like... the kpop tracks inspired by Tinashe but... not kpop. Does that make sense? American, Fifth Harmony-esque song that feels like a kpop GG ripping off American Tinashe. A perfect feedback loop. Delectable.

"Out of Touch" Four Year Strong. Throwback, pop punk sound with a modern flourish.

"Nissan Altima" Doechii. As a Nissan driver, I had to rec this lmao. Great song, great flow, GET YA TITS SUCKED

"Tokyo" Sable Hills. Screamo :3 The guitar fucks

Older tracks: Keep Away by Carly Rae Jepsen (song to sway to), Bloom by Macico (the Japanese sound Harry styles tried to rip off), Thanks for Your Time by Gotye (dour and sensual) and Miss Fatty by Million Stylez (music to shake your ass to)

Posting this early because I know more music (Chungha, Bree Runway) is coming and uhhhh this post is already too full

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Can anybody add to this list? 

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Mixtape T: Awesome Mix Vol. 12

Listen HERE or the playlist below:

Gangsta -Tune-Yards

Idiots Rule Jane's Addiction

The Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

That's Not My Name -The Ting Tings

Ring, Ring, Ring (Ha Ha Hey)- De La Soul

Do This My Way -Blackalicious

Pure Love (Original Mix)- DJ Koze, Damon Albarn

Scooby Snacks -Fun Lovin' Criminals

Miss Fatty - Million Stylez

KILL DEM (Original Mix) -Jamie xx

Nothing Left To Lose - Everything But The Girl

A Girl Like You -Edwyn Collins

If You Leave (From "Pretty In Pink")- OMD

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Run Up features Larruso on new Dancehall jam “Wilding” – LISTEN

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Run Up features Larruso on new Dancehall jam “Wilding” – LISTEN

Run Up has set the ball rolling with a major step with the release of his latest Dancehall Jam titled “Wilding”. Tapping into the Gen Z energies, he recruits Larruso for this new jam produced by CaskeysOnit. The song is out on all music platforms.

“Wilding” is a motivational Dancehall Song by Run Up and is tipped to swiftly take over the streets among the ghetto youths to whom the song is directed. In the song, Run Up urges the youth not to give up and ‘keep striving’ till the bread fills the basket. Larruso also came on with his critically inclined lyrics along same storyline.

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The new generation of Dancehallers seem to have a different and a suave direction for the Culture with their choice of riddims and lyrics; award-winning Ghanaian Producer, CaskeysOnit connected well with both young chaps and delivered the appropriate beat composition to complement their melodies and thought-process.

About Run Up:

Born Felix Odei Tinkorang, but known to the world as Run Up. This Reggae/Dancehall/Afro Dancehall artiste boasts of numerous talents with his versatility across various music disciplines. Raised in Zeetown (Sabon Zongo) and having lived most of his life in Kaneshie, it was in Kaneshie that he discovered his passion for music and began honing it.

As a child, Run Up was heavily influenced by his father, who played a variety of music genres including Reggae, Highlife, and Hiplife. This early exposure fostered his love for music. During his adolescence, Run Up became captivated by Stonebwoy’s music, idolizing him to the extent of sampling Stonebwoy’s beats for school performances. Around this time, he also met Wanga Lee, an artiste who taught him more about dancehall music. Their relationship between Run Up and Wanga Lee was akin to Vybz Kartel and Popcaan’s music relationship.

Run Up’s latest track, “WILDING,” is an inspirational piece encouraging the youth to relentlessly strive for a better life, laying a strong foundation for themselves and their future generations.

Anticipate his upcoming EP with Million Stylez, set to be released soon. Run Up is here to achieve great things. Watch out!

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Million Stylez (Szwecja) @ One Love Festival 2010 / Wrocław

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I just listened to this little gem and it deserves to be shared with other ears Original Uploaded by Million Stylez via SoundCloud https://ift.tt/L386hVl Make the community vibrate: a like, a share, or even a comment can transform our cultural mosaic together. 🔊❤️

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Joey Stylez Speaks to the Rat Race on New Single “The Wild”

Recognized by CBC as one of the top 25 Canadian rappers of all time, chart-topping Cree hip-hop artist Joey Stylez credits his success to faith, family, and commitment after overcoming the struggles common to North American Indigenous youth. With many awards and accolades under his belt, he cites that the greatest award he has ever received is knowing that his strong work ethic has inspired others to succeed.

On his new self-produced single “The Wild,” Joey calls back to the hip-hop basics that his fans appreciate. “As Native Americans, we pride ourselves in being land protectors and social rights activists, but on this one, we just wanted to create a mood that could lift people from their problems.”

His song “Indian Girl Driving Me Crazy” picked up the Pop Music Video award at the 2022 Native American Music Awards. Now, he’s partnered with Director/Producer Aurelien Offner again for “The Wild” music video.

Creating unique music with his multi-genre flair, the JUNO-nominated artist was recently featured on the popular Reservation Dogs TV show as well as on Mayor of Kingstown. Over the past couple of years, the hit sensation Yellowstone series starring Kevin Costner featured the song Save Your Soul. With online streaming in the tens of millions and collaborations with big names such as Dragonette, Bun B & Ty Dolla $ign, he has opened for artists such as Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, and Billy Ray Cyrus. 

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‎Joey Stylez ‘Finally’ Features Lancelot Knight In Latest SingleJoey Stylez is a well-known name not just among Indigenous communities but also among the general public all over Canada and beyond. Joey Stylez was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He has worked with some of the most well-known figures in the business, and his music was used in the film Wind River, which examines the problem of missing and murdered Indigenous women. His work has also been used in other notable films. [embed]https://soundcloud.com/joeystylezworld/finally-feat-lancelot-knight/s-iLkfRRtkTdk[/embed] On the Kevin Costner and Taylor Sheridan-created Yellowstone television series that airs on Paramount Television, he has made a cameo appearance as himself, and his song “Save Your Soul” was used in the pilot episode of the action-packed blockbuster series. His internet streaming numbers are in the tens of millions, and he has worked with major artists like Dragonette, Bun B, and Ty Dolla $ign, much to the joy of his devoted following. He overcame a hard past and became well-known. Along the way, he inspired a whole generation of Canadian musicians. He was named one of the top 25 Canadian rappers of all time by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He also inspired a generation of Canadian musicians. Stylez has made it a point to make good on his promise to give back to the fans, families, and communities who have supported him along the way. [embed]https://youtu.be/grzD-VsRKCQ[/embed] He likes leading seminars for young people, during which he shares his experiences in order to motivate and direct them through some of the challenges of life. He also lives a healthy life, making sure that his mind, body, and soul are all in balance. DJ Kemo, who has won a Juno and been certified platinum, has worked with Joey Stylez on six singles and the executive album production of his next project. This 16-track album by Horsethieves & Bootleggers will win your heart because it tackles head-on the many problems that Native North Americans face. Stylez attributes his accomplishments to his religion, his family, and the devotion he has shown to his work. He is dedicated to all those who came before him. His journey is inspiring because it shows how he overcame the problems that indigenous youth in North America face. The song “Finally,” featuring Lancelot Knight, is an anthem of hope for artists who continue to work hard. The upbeat new track, which features a little bit of rap and a little bit of rockabilly, features Stylez making a declaration. At the Native American Music Awards that took place in November of this past year, “Indian Girl Driving Me Crazy” was recognized as having the year’s best pop music video. [embed]https://open.spotify.com/track/6QjApbaTqNw7PDWmagtmdq[/embed]    

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Alright so here are ten albums that, by all rights, should have been on the rolling Stone top 500 albums list. In my research I did learn that one of them (Buena Vista Social Club) was in a previous version of the list so why the fuck did they take it off? My first pick is probably a lil contentious but I feel strongly about it, the rest are so obvious that it is insane they aren't on there.

Three 6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez

I feel like I am screaming into the void trying to explain why this album is so good and influential. Despite remaining an underground artist throughout the 90s Three 6 Mafia were one of the pioneers of horrorcore hip hop. But more importantly than that their eerie lofi production and laid back tongue twisting was an obvious forerunner to the trap scene of the 00s and 10s. In fact you can hear them nearly create the trap beat several times in this album. Mystic Styles simply does not sound like it could have come out in 95 to me. It belongs much more alongside artists like Lil Ugly Mane than Wu-Tang Clan.

Beyond the realm of mere influence this is also just an incredibly good album that never deserves the lukewarm response that it got from the mainstream. The beats are so stark and sloppy, with such an emphasis on horror movie style dissonance. The resulting beats are perfect for both slow and lugubrious tongue twisters, and the intense violent horrorcore raps. Overall Mystic Stylez creates atmosphere more effectively than most hip hop artists could ever dream of.

Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner

UK garage and grime are not genres that American audiences usually pay attention to. Hell they aren't genres that most UK audiences pay attention to. Dizzee Rascal changed that when he released Boy In Da Corner. The frenetic pace of Rascal's rapping and the equally chaotic beats are transfixing. The wild urgency with which every line is delivered lends credibility to the fairly goofy and teenagery lyrics. Dizzee Rascal can be very goofy, but the catchyness of the songs and the sheer energy of it all made grime a hit genre worldwide if only for a moment. Also I love when someone flips a sample so well that you can't hear the original without thinking of the song that sampled it so basically r.i.p. to Billy Squire but Big Beat is just the sample in Fix Up, Look Sharp now.

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Iron Maiden do two things, rip guitar at one million miles an hour and scream at the top of their lungs. But there's actually a secret third thing and it's that they have some pretty decent lyricism. Iron Maiden are consistently concerned with the horrors of war. The subject is all over their previous singles and is present on both the hits on Powerslave. Aces High portrays a panicked pilot trying to survive a battle in WW2, and the more politically charged Two Minutes To Midnight criticizes the commodification of warfare and the fact that capitalists are bringing the world to the brink of destruction for the sake of profits. It's not all super prescient stuff tho. A lot of Iron Maiden songs are just there to sound cool. And they do. The guitars go fast and squeedly and meedly while the drum and bass are galloping along with the intensity of a freight train.

Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Metallica's first album is good, but the follow up blows nearly every other thrash album out of the water. With just a little music theory knowledge and a willingness to experiment Metallica crafted songs with acoustic intros, actually good bridges and breakdowns and even catchier riffs. All without sacrificing the breakneck speed. In fact Ride The Lightning is probably even faster than their previous efforts. It's not just about speed though, it's pacing. The fact that these songs tend to have slow intros that build into fast paced squeedling helps break up the album so it isn't all on all the time. This would also become a staple of Metallica's sound from this album on. But they never nail their own sound as hard as they do on Ride The Lightning. It's probably my favorite thrash album.

Harry Chapin - Verities & Balderdash

Choosing just one Harry Chapin album was extremely hard because basically all of his albums have at least one of my favorites of his on it. But there was no way to get Taxi, 30,000 pounds of bananas, and Mr. Tanner on one album. So I went for the album that I thought Rolling Stone would be most likely to choose. Verities And Balderdash starts off with Chapin's most well known song, Cats In The Cradle, and then it only gets better from there. Harry Chapin is the greatest lyricist of the 70s adult contemporary scene. Fuck it he's probably the best of the 70s period. Chapin's knack for writing complex and sincere emotions that give a voice to perspectives that don't get enough play in popular music. He gives a voice to people who are typically voiceless. Everymen with humble aspirations that still amount to nothing. The musical arrangements are part of what make this work. Chapin's voice is bolstered by a combination of folk guitar and bombastic strings that make every line about failing marriages and fascist fire departments seem exactly as big as they are to the characters in the songs.

Okay I'm just gonna talk about one song from this album. This song was a hit. The Town That Made America Famous. This is one of the best songs every written. Top ten songs of all time easily. In it the narrator describes his life in a tenement building with a poor family and all the poor families that have given up and don't see any prospects beyond day to day existence. It describes their oppression at the hands of their landlord "The best that we all could afford / But still too fine for the rich landlord / To tear it down" and the local police "The cops would make a point to shadow us around our town". And then when a fire starts in their building the fire department refuse to show up as retaliation for someone drawing a swastika on the firehouse. In the narrative it is made clear that the narrator and friends were the ones that did it, but the fire department doesn't know that. The only person who shows up to fight the fire is a plumber, the only working class member of the fire department. The plumber let's the narrator's family stay at his house and the singer reflects that "It's funny when you get that close, it's kind of hard to hate". This song actually makes my heart race with anxiety whenever I hear it. It is so horrifically real. So basically if you are one of my anarchist friends and you think that some fuck from the 1970s writing folk rock can't be infinitely more woke and prescient than anything coming out today then I've got some news for you. Harry Chapin is a fucking comrade.

Buena Vista Social Club - s/t

By the time this album was made in 1996 many of the musicians featured, Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén Gonzáles, Elíades Ochoa, to name just a handful of the more prominent ones, had been performing for decades. Segundo was already in his 80s. Almost all of them were Havana natives and played the local circuit, but the Cuban trade embargo severely hampered the ability for this music to reach wider audiences. Now there's no obligation to make your music for any audience other than the one right in front of you, but when American blues musician Ry Cooder ran into visa troubles while trying to put together an afro-cuban project he wound up smashing the Cuban musicians he was already working with into a group with several other local artists in the Havana music scene.

Okay history lesson over. The music on this album is so clearly the work of passionate experts with decades of experience under their belt. The delicate and vibrant melodies represent a slowing down of intensity that had become present in the bolero and danzón music of the time. Though many of the songs were newly written for this album, they feel like a return to some comfortable childhood place. A place that can only be kept alive in song. Solo escuchas un álbum de música Cubana escucha de Buena Vista Social Club.

Apex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Alright if anyone says IDM imma go feral. This is an ambient techno album. We don't gotta be elitist about this electronic music. In fact I think it is important that this is an ambient techno album because it gave the techno scene more mainstream attention than it ever had gotten in the past and it brought the ambient subgenre of techno more into the foreground.

If there is one thing that Richard D James understands it is texture. Every track on Selected Ambient Works is so much more than just a drum beat and a melody. While the drums have a hint of hip hop and the melodies are more present than other techno music, the real star is the diverse sonic textures that populate each track. From distant wet sounds that sound like the inside of a submarine to dry buzzsaw sounds to fuzzy bass lines there is so much to focus in on. When a new sound enters the mix it changes the entire flavor of the song as it's new texture slots into the sonic palate. And while later Apex Twin releases are just as incredible it is on this debut that Richard D James shows restraint. Any less and the songs would be boring, any more and they would be overwhelming. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is one of the high points in electronic music.

KLF - The White Room

The KLF are a weird anomaly, they jumped into the electronic music scene in 87 made a handful of incredibly creative releases and then dipped in 92 after firing a machine gun full of blanks into the audience at the BRIT Awards and deleting their entire back catalogue of music.

So uh The White Room is a house album. Kind of. The KLF were not really easily pinned down to a genre. There are aspects of rave, house, dub, hip hop, acid, etc all over this album. It has a grand and mythological sound that would be at home in an underground rave or a huge stadium. The lyrics are mostly spiritual nonsense. I don't mean that in an "Its spiritual so I hate it kind of way" I mean that The KLF are primarily inspired by the satirical Illuminatus! Trilogy and therefore use satirical takes on spiritual aesthetics. Songs like Last Train To Trancentral make a trip to the rundown shack they used as a recording studio sound like a religious pilgrimage.

Avalanches - Since I Left You

There is absolutely no other album like Since I Left You. There are plenty of sampledelica / instrumental hip hop / turntablist / plunderphonics records but no album is as dedicated to being all of those things at once as this one. The Avalanches conceived of this album while looking at all the weird and forgotten albums that populated thrift stores in their native Melbourne. To quote one half of the group Darren Seltman "[t]he more rejected and unwanted the record that a sample comes from, the more appealing it is, I guess it's almost a reaction to rare record finding, but occasionally things like 'Holiday' come up".

The way that samples are used here is unique. The album is made entirely of samples as is the case with plunderphonics, but the sheer number of samples and the dense layering is incredible. A breakdown of any one song on the album will show dozens of samples flitting in and out things making up the entire backbone of the track that you didn't even register was something you might have recognized. Hell even the very obvious samples like the aforementioned Holiday by Madonna is woven into the mix so well that it is fully divorced from its original context.

Now the other thing that Since I Left You has is atmosphere. Instrumental hip hop in this style has a tendency for one aesthetic and only one aesthetic: driving on the highway at 2:00 AM while feeling contemplative. Trust me that isn't overspecific I have listened to a lot of records. Since I left you is the polar opposite of this. The album is a brightly lit tropical dreamscape. A psychedelic reimagining of a cruise vacation. The joy of creativity and sunshine flows through every second of Since I Left You and it is impossible to come out the other end without a smile on your face. This is one of the greatest albums ever made and it definitely makes my top ten.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor

The complete and utter lack of any east asian music whatsoever on both rolling stones top 500 albums and the 1001 albums list actually makes me livid. I could make at least a top 100 list of just Japanese music. So I'm gonna do the bare minimum and put on probably the first Japanese albums to hit it big in the west.

YMO have a sound that, while not strictly ahead of their time is still fairly pioneering. There is a lack of the punk/new wave aesthetics of Tubeway Army, but more pop sensibilities than Ktaftwerk. They wind up falling in this unique synth pop place of very sincere bubbliness, but also artistic integrity. Nothing quite sums it up like their cover of The Beatles' Day Tripper. It's a fun off beat cover that retains the poppiness of the original but with a thrumming synth line that almost predicts techno. And techno artists do tend to list Solid State Survivor as an influence.

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Tagged by @slowwshoww to put my "heavy rotation/on repeat" playlist on shuffle and let y'all pick you faves of the first five songs!

I put genres if you aren't familiar with any of the songs lol

Also I'm too lazy to tag anyone!! If you wanna be tagged dm me and i'll edit this to tag you and justify you doing it, lol

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I tried to go to sleep but I can't this whole thing is incredible.

As a person in corporate communications who has served time in the dungeons of rep risk and been tossed asunder the shores of crisis management, I know from shitshows.

I am, full Hideo Kojima stylez, BEWITCHED by the choices that Be On Cloud is making, and I could argue that there's a fascinating case study to be made by someone studying PR and crisis management, but not me, because I already escaped the halls of j-school and you can never make me go back.

I'd heard distantly that BOC had pissed a lot of people off by mismanaging some of their talent and fan engagement, which isn't difficult to imagine because marketing--which is basically lead/sales generation--is one of the hardest needles to thread for any organization. Also so many fandoms are absolutely batshit insane so like who the fuck knows what misalignment of the house of Jupiter had pissed everybody off. Don't @ me you know it's true.

But the first time I was like, "Oh BOC needs to hire an agency," was when the first round of controversy arose re: Build and some of his old tweets and comments that lead to his (first) hiatus.

The first rule of crisis comms is to shut the fuck up.

I would say almost 99% of effective communications is knowing when not to say anything at all. The human instinct is to explain, to argue, to justify; we hate being misunderstood, and it's amplified by about 6 million when you have an echo chamber of people talking about you and getting it--in ways big or small or debatable--wrong on some level. But truly, and I know there are a lot of you who are in this business with me who are nodding along, the number one most important thing I do in my job is preventing people from talking.

Despite your desire to be understood, you will not be understood. Firstly: you are not good at communicating; if you were, I would not have a job and there would not be a vast, multi-billion dollar industry built up around employing people like me. Secondly: your silence is powerful. It's your opportunity to recognize and benefit from the second rule of crisis comms:

Which is understanding that feelings are your enemy.

If you are having an emotional reaction to something--which we all do! we are human!--it is impossible to take an objective stance and see the full scope, potential ramifications, or identify the oftentimes painful next steps that need to be taken. I know this feels over the top, that if--for example--there is a natural disaster it should feel easy to lean into your empathy and kindness and say "oh let's support a bunch of charities." But that same impulse is going to lead you to realizing later that you gave $20K to a religious group that throws LGBTQ+ youth out onto the streets as part of your spray and pray approach to wildfire support, and then you've gotta call someone like me again, which nobody wants. This is the same position a lot of HR practitioners are in, but whereas they have the impossible job of firing people or navigating their compliant departure, comms has the job of sometimes having to do a live, public amputation of something or someone you care about to save the larger organism.

There are nicer and meaner ways to do this, and the tone of your reaction is just as important as what you react with, as is understanding as a risk management function the consequences of your silence, of any delay, of potentially moving on misinformation or incomplete data, and having a ruthlessly clear vision of the actual goal.

That's always the first conversation I have with someone on what is frequently one of the worst days of their professional career: what's the objective here? There's an ideal outcome, an idealized outcome, and what the actual imperative objective for the organization is. That objective is not always pretty, it often feels bad--but it's a controlled descent rather than a catastrophic disintegration.

Which is why if you are an organization where optics are important, it is critical to have the cold dead heart of someone in the communications discipline at your operating committee table. So while you are like, "Oh but Danny has worked here for 35 years and has a three-legged dog and he didn't mean to say that," someone like me can make all sort of sympathetic noises and then provide you the professionalized air cover to say, "That's nice, but also fuck Danny and fuck his three-legged dog. Cut him."

Like, if we engage in this exercise with BOC--what is their objective? What's the imperative at the end of this clusterfuck? In theory, for them still to be a successful production company, for their other remaining and newly incoming artists to have fruitful careers, for their future projects to be well-received, and for them to continue to cultivate lucrative sponsor relationships leveraging the rising fame and popularity of their stable of talent--right?

If that's the case, then the math on the current set of circumstances is painfully easy: regardless of how this ultimately lands, this is a person who has now twice exposed BOC to massive reputational risk. And because there are actually multiple people involved, distance yourself from all these other parties, too, in a clear, comprehensive way before it starts fucking your books.

And that's not an abstract thing, there are likely numbers behind this kind of thing. If you're a brand thinking about collabing with BOC's artists, even if they're not Build, do you want to be associated with a production house that continues to hang onto him? Or let's say he leaves but it takes ages and there was a whole circus before it happened, as a brand you have to think twice about your association with BOC. That's not just feelings--that's money, that's an existential concern for your organization.

And I'm aware that it's not great that none of this actually takes into account the so-called truth of what's happened. That's not really something that should or can be effectively litigated in the court of public opinion. Will you get shit if you cancel someone and it turns out they were innocent? Probably. But it's going to be a lot less shit than you'll catch if they aren't. It's all about risk management.

And then there's BOC.

The fact that they are holding a live presser has me in transports. The fact that the accused and the accuser are both going to be present made me lightheaded. The fact that like half of BOC's people are in fucking Japan doing something and that the whole thing broke when the CEO was following Mile around Paris full Kris Jenner style has me in its unshakeable thrall. The fact that execs at BOC are engaged in active dialog with fans (!!!!!!) over social media (!!!!!!!!!) about this pending shitshow is UNFATHOMABLE to me. I would simply tackle phones out of peoples' hands! I would throw them into a river! EVEN BIRDIE FROM FUCKING GLASS ONION KNEW SHE WASN'T ALLOWED ON SOCIAL MEDIA GET OFF INSTAGRAM OH MY GOD. Even recognizing that there are profoundly different social and media expectations for Asian fandoms--live press events in response to significant events negative and positive are much more common in East Asia, I understand--this is such an absolutely unhinged deployment of what is a scenario where there are potentially real legal stakes involved. Truly I feel hashtag blessed to be witnessing the professional equivalent of a white guy in an infomercial at 3 a.m. failing to carry two plates at the same time.

I don't know anything about the Thai legal system, and I don't know any real detail about the substance of the very serious allegations that BOC and its artists and management are currently wrangling with, but I know this: they should shut the fuck up, and they should not let anybody who has a single emotional attachment to any of this make any of the decisions.

Also: they need to hire a crisis comms agency.

Genuinely the urge to go make a LinkedIn post about this in some professional group of PR people just to watch everybody start frothing is so intense but then I would fully experience that Lenny from the Simpson's situation of asking them all not to tell anybody how I live.

I just want y’all to know this whole BOC situation is my Super Bowl.

[thistunerocks]

Million Stylez - Miss Fatty (Chick Flix Bootleg)

[riddimworld2021]

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YOU’VE BEEN BAD RIDDIM – REALITY SHOCK x REALITY CHANT Tracklist: Chieftain Joseph – Musical Farmer Cookie The Herbalist – Likkle Green Plant Deadly Hunta – Congratulations Errol Dunkley & Daddy Freddy – You’ve Been Bad Idren Natural – Wonderous Louie Culture – Fyah Chant Marga – Move & Galong Million Stylez – Total Control Miss Fritty – Give Me A Reason Norrisman – Demon Road Silva Mc – We See…

[9misoundsystem]

Million Stylez - World Crisis (Ft. Don Carlos)