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April 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The State of Play: Fame Goes, Music Remains…
“We live in an age of music for people who don’t like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren’t that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music’s annoying, or at the very least they don’t need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a […]Archive
August 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Kirk Walker Graves: Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33 1/3)
Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33 1/3) Kirk Walker Graves Bloomsbury Academic Okay, first up, yes, I was not a fan – at all – of Kanye’s Dark Twisted Fantasy. So why would I read a book about it? Well – why not? Also, I’ll read anything (and I nearly have read everything) […]Archive
July 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Jay-Z: Magna Carta Holy Grail
Jay-Z Magna Carta Holy Grail Universal Music It’s good. You know, I think a lot of people decided it couldn’t be because this billionaire didn’t deserve even more success; didn’t deserve to make money by cynically distributing the album with a new (clever) deal that could only work for one or two names in music. […]Archive
June 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Kanye West: Yeezus
Kanye West Yeezus Virgin Records He might think he’s Jesus – or bigger than – Yeezus even (whatever that actually is?) – but on New Slave you hear him boast that he’s bigger than his own race, presumably better too. He also, in saying it’s better to be a dick than a swallower, manages to […]Archive
December 17, 2011 by Simon Sweetman