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Dec 21, 2022

I’ve spent December looking back at things I’ve written about for

this year. Stats; artists’ rights; the metaverse; web3 and NFTs; climate action; diversity, equity and inclusion; TikTok etc. Yes listicles, but I promise thoughtful ones 🙃 musically.com/tag/2022-round

Spotify's new vertical discovery feed is more than just a TikTok clone - Music Ally

Mar 7

Some proper analysis of all this:

musically.com

This week, Spotify will hold its 'Stream On' event in Los Angeles. Last held in 2021, it's the company's equivalent of Apple's WWDC keynotes.

So anyway this new Spotify vertical discovery feed that’s being announced tomorrow has… already appeared on my phone 👀

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So much for an impartial BBC, the chair appointment now looks like a right wing stitch up against etc etc etc 🙄🙄🙄 reuters.com/world/uk/bbc-c

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Jacob Rees-Mogg

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg

Mar 2

So much for an impartial Civil Service, the Gray report now looks like a left wing stitch up against a Tory Prime Minister. news.sky.com/story/labour-l

Mar 2

I know journalists like to be grumpy about getting sent press releases that aren't relevant for them, but I've just had one about a "smart spraying robot" for French champagne and wine vineyards, and it's brightened up my day. In a parallel world, this is absolutely my niche!

Mar 2

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Lord Ashcroft

@LordAshcroft

Feb 28

Perhaps @RishiSunak could have a chat with his new best friend @vonderleyen and seek to include U.K. passport holders in the EU line to enter the countries of the European Union to remove another irritant…

New features for teens and families on TikTok

Mar 1

Announcement here: newsroom.tiktok.com/en-gb/tiktok-t (Yes, I know they can make it longer v easily.)

newsroom.tiktok.com

Cormac Keenan, Head of Trust and Safety, TikTok Today we're announcing new features for teens, families, and our broader community. We believe digital experiences should bring joy and play a positive

Announcement from TikTok: "Every account belonging to someone below age 18 will automatically be set to a 60-minute daily screen time limit." Me, delivering this news to my sons later today:

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I mean, on the one hand something has gone wrong with Twitter and the 'Following' feed is broken (but not the 'For You' feed 🤔) and this is Not A Great Sign for how things are going. On the other hand, this is probably the most chilled I've ever felt looking at my Twitter 😃

Feb 24

(tbf I would be the absolute worst A&R person for this band. "Yes, can the whole album be the same riff/drone please, with harmonies on top and plenty of woos?")

No idea why the Dandy Warhols' 'The Black Album' is in my new-releases playlist this morning (remaster/rerelease?) but I'm happy about it. Still boggles me it was originally rejected by the label for being what, too Dandy Warholsy? It's distilled everything-I-love-about-them

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Vagina Museum

@vagina_museum

Feb 22

If a medieval French vagina could speak, what would it say? We actually have the answer to this. Allow us to tell you the tale of The Knight Who Could Make Cunts Speak.

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Well alright then

Hey ChatGPT, write me an imaginary news story linking these four trending topics pls

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Krishnan Guru-Murthy

@krishgm

Feb 20

Truss calls for an "economic NATO". A sort of trading block? Without supply chain barriers? A way of ensuring peace and stability? I'm sure I've heard of something like this before but can't quite put my finger on it......

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Guardian news

@guardiannews

Feb 17

Liz Truss urges 'economic Nato' to stand up to China – video theguardian.com/politics/video

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Pancake Day - Maid Marian

Feb 21

Maid Marian is trending. Absolutely for the correct reason too.

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It's Pancake Day, yes it's pancake day, yes it's P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P Pancake day! - Classic I laugh every time I watch this. Maid Marian & Her Merry Men - Pancak...

Feb 21

Sauce news! Can't think of any good lyric puns but give me time...

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Music Ally

Feb 21

The latest release from Ed Sheeran (@edsheeran) isn't an album, it's another kind of product with two variants: 'Tingly' and 'Xtra Tingly'. NO NOT CONDOMS. Hot sauce! And it's just gone on sale this morning. musically.com/2023/02/21/ed-

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Goth’s undead! The dark return of Britain’s spookiest subculture

Feb 20

Smash Hits was key to me falling in love with music when I was young. So I can’t overstate the delight of seeing Sylvia Patterson using “fright-wigged” in an article in 2023 :D

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From Wednesday Addams to Gen Z’s body-modified clubbers, the black-eyeliner brigade is back – and wearing its deathhawk hair higher than ever. But did it ever go away?

Feb 17

This bit feels important. AI music startups (so Oleg from Endel says) have NOT been scraping the world's commercial music to train their models, but used stock music instead. Good in the context of artist's rights, but not so good for the quality of the AI music...

Given the ongoing rumpus about functional music, creative AIs and streaming, this should be fun ;)

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Music Ally

Feb 17

Amazon Music adds ‘Sleep Science’ playlist from AI music startup @EndelSound. CEO @stvtsk talked to us about the science behind it; UMG boss Lucian Grainge's recent 'functional music' comments; and his hopes for AI music's artist-friendly evolution... musically.com/2023/02/17/ama

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Amanda

@Pandamoanimum

Feb 13

All the mash-up videos I’ve made. A thread.

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It's presumably because I just quote-tweeted him but YE GODS the remaining engineers are now making sure my For You timeline is absolutely jam-packed with his recent tweets (lots more further down too)

Feb 13

Alternative take: journalists have been amongst the most enthusiastic and engaged users of Twitter since its earliest days, so want it to thrive, but also have a sharp sense when things are going wrong. But yes, agendas 🙄

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Feb 12

Replying to @paulg

Absolutely. Twitter is also a competitor to legacy media for news, so they are fundamentally conflicted.

Feb 12

I see the voting for who should host next year's Brit Awards has already opened...

Say what you like about David Guetta but once I was at the V Festival seeing the Stone Roses; wind gusts meant we could only hear the *vocals*; and as we walked away sadly, Guetta was on the other stage and his jumpy-up-and-downy boom-boom-boom was what we needed

Daniel Maier

@danielmaier

You forget how weird Eastenders storylines were in the 00's.

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Nick Walker

@nickw84

Sponsored by MasterCard #BRITs

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Mark Sutherland

@msutherlanduk

Replying to @stuartdredge

Fuck the tories!

PEOPLE AT THE ACTUAL BRITS what did the Wetlegbloke say that got censored on TV pls?

jules graceffa ★ 9 DAYS

SAM CAPALDI EVERYONE

I’ve reached the age where I’m watching the Brits and googling things like ‘Lucian and Camille’ while feeling old

The size of a car, they say 🤫

Rocks-era Primal Scream on the TOTP rerun packs an emotional punch now with Denise, Throb and Duffy :(

Tom Doran

@portraitinflesh

Credit where it's due: the "readers added context" feature has significantly improved the Twitter experience.

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Aubrey Huff

@aubrey_huff

Feb 7

Pfizer spelled backwards is Rezifp. Rezifp is of Hebrew origin & means (‘the Burner' or 'the Ravager') ancient West Semitic god of the plague & of the underworld. The more you know!

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When you're already facing criticism for an all-male Artist of the Year shortlist, giving the Producer of the Year and Songwriter of the Year gongs to chaps as well is... bold

Just pining for an interviewer to follow up with 'So, Dominic, if you're not setting high standards...'

Well, yes *meaningful stare*

ANOTHER fake-news poll geared to the agenda of the liberal elite which lefty newspaper publis... wait what woah

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Christopher Hope

@christopherhope

** EXCLUSIVE poll for the @Telegraph ** Snap general election ‘would leave Tories as Westminster’s third party’ @FindoutnowUK @ElectCalculus telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/

Just published (took a while to write up!) Also FYI if you're getting the 'reached your limit of daily tweets' error when you haven't, you can schedule them for (eg) 1 or 2 mins time and they go through 😎

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Music Ally

Misogyny in music: ‘The imposter syndrome is created by the systems’ Our report on today's @Commonswomequ hearing, featuring @NadiaCTRL of @womeninctrl, @Gleena of @safegigs4women, @vickbain of @theflistmusic and @weareqveen of @cactuscityuk. musically.com/2023/02/08/mis

Surprised at how realistic they look in this pic 🤡

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Spitting Image

@SpittingImage