Old people need to grow the fuck up and accept that they are old.

Good sir. Since you are a man well into your forties, we’d like to bring to your attention the shocking silliness of your username. It is entirely unfit for a venerable gentleman such as you to engage in booger humour, no matter how undeniably comical.

Furthermore, we would like to seize this opportunity to remind the elders present that video games are entirely too childish for citizens of our decorum. Animes are right out as well. We urge you to engage instead in respectable hobbies such as afternoon TV, yelling at clouds and filing your taxes.

It’s fascinating how so many musicians gravitating around Knower (Louis Cole / Genevieve Artadi) are unique artists doing their own crazy thing. Mononeon, Sam Gendel, Fuensanta, Rai Thistlethwayte, Thundercat…

I love that phase of Bowie. The Earthling’s “Look at the Moon!” tour had this amazing cover of Laurie Andersen’s O Superman.

Spotify’s success is heavily qualified, though. It may be the Netflix of music, but it’s never posted a profit; in 2022, with nearly a half-billion users around the world, around 200 million of whom pay for the service, it lost 430 million euros (the company is based in Sweden).

How does one get to repeatedly lose hundreds of millions of dollars on and on and somehow endure? Some stockmarket shit?

Another thing: let’s not forget that when music streaming showed up, the music industry was already struggling. The CD era was over; everybody and their mom were sailing the high seas on P2P networks.