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As a fellow ‘creator,’* can I suggest that it may be time to move on?
* Yuck. Yuck. Newspeak 2.0. https://twitter.com/hanearlpark/status/1289603553162452992
* Yuck. Yuck. Newspeak 2.0. https://twitter.com/hanearlpark/status/1289603553162452992
Also, while we’re here navigating this post-industrial hellscape, let’s be careful not to stumble into another trap. https://twitter.com/hanearlpark/status/1256348456223899654
Even when they’re your friends, they are not your friends. https://twitter.com/coreymwamba/status/1334920717012439042
In this gig-economy-fueled late-capitalist condition, the distance between The Best and The Worst is never as great as your friendly corporatists would like you to think.
Musicians are as likely as anyone to identify with ‘success,’ and believe in economic-mobility-by-magical-means. Sadly. https://twitter.com/coreymwamba/status/1334922473083711495
I think there are additional complications stemming from positioning capital-seeking corporations or ‘platforms’ as ‘saviors,’ and one is that it becomes harder to imagine a solidarity that is not engineered from the top-down. https://twitter.com/lee_re/status/1334951718526709761
Other than the fee-waiving,† there was no reason for artists and labels to wait until the corporate rubber-stamp of Bandcamp to instigate something akin to a Bandcamp Friday.
† Which, cynically to be sure, one might suspect is a small price for a lean, efficient online company to pay in exchange for extra ears and eyes.
Ask yourself: every time we repeat ‘Bandcamp Fridays,’ who really wins? When the dust settles, who gains cultural capital? Who is actually at the steering wheel?
As creative peoples, one of the most valuable things we bring to the table is our capacity for imagination. Yet……… https://twitter.com/hanearlpark/status/1330893669499592707
What we do is labor. It has value. https://twitter.com/lee_re/status/1335252915359891456
