Maroon 5 & The Super Bowl
Is all publicity good publicity? It was a strange game, since the NFL’s ratings were resuscitated by the Chiefs and their passing attack, and this contest was fought on the…
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The State Of Stardom
Everybody does not know your name. No one is as big as they used to be in the pre-internet era. No one reaches everybody, no one is known by everybody,…
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Fyre Festival – The Netflix Version
Sure, Billy McFarland is a sociopath and a crook. But everybody working for him wanted to get paid. And everybody who bought tickets to the festival wanted to live the…
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Pledge Music
Fastball can’t get paid. I got a call from their manager Ron Stone today. The band was due their 20k on 1/1, Pledge said to wait a while, they’d dribble…
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Baby Shark
Is it time to redo the “Billboard” chart once again? Or is this the harbinger of a new dawn, wherein radio is less relevant and hip-hop is not America’s sound…
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Bohemian Rhapsody
So what have we learned? It was the worst-reviewed Golden Globe winner in 33 years: https://bit.ly/2CUTuoO Not that I needed Rotten Tomatoes to tell me this, I’ve been tracking it…
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Coachella Lineup
It’s not the boomers’ Coachella anymore, nor the Gen-X’ers. I thought the transition would happen when America’s #1 festival booked Justin Bieber. But now, that old man has been passed…
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Spending To Dominance
Everything is on Netflix. Not only the Boss and Tay-Tay, but all the comedians, if you’re susceptible to hype, you’re aware that Ellen DeGeneres is launching a comedy special. How…
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Artist Of The Year
Ed Sheeran. In a business that only cares about money, he triumphed. He grossed $432.4 million dollars, and an incredible percentage of that was net, because just like a comedian,…
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