Accountability in Music • Page 347

Justin Bieber is at the KSI vs. Logan Paul boxing match because of course he is.

 

....what is this sentence

 

KSI and Logan Paul are fighting for the second time and they showed Justin Bieber a little bit ago in the crowd. Disappointing he is supporting Logan Paul after Logan has shown himself to be a terrible person, but not surprising since Justin has supported shitty people in the past such as Chris Brown.

 

I’ve never “heard” a thing. And he was very instrumental in the whole JJR stuff so I am going to wait to see more

 

Yeah. I know nothing about Christian being a part of problematic things, do you have a source?

 

I'm just surprised that Justin Bieber and Logan Paul are different people because they have the same weird haircut

 

very upsetting. these labels and artists mean a lot to me.

 

Feel likes it’s important to remember you can not like someone and not get along with them but that doesn’t mean they’re an abusive person or something. There are tons of men in this corner of the scene I literally hate but that doesn’t mean they need to be “cancelled.” More context needed for sure before jumping to any conclusion.

 

Also to be clear though, Christian’s response sucks ass and sounds exactly like the kind of “I know the language of anti-capitalism and social justice and use it as a tactic” bullshit I see from tons of dudes on twitter. It doesn’t really matter whether Chuck is a mess or not- he is a criminal because he breached a contract that he created and signed. You think that “mess” wouldn’t have sued any of his artists for breaching contract?

 

Also Christian’s thread comes off a little mansplain-y doesn’t it, like “I understand that AM is upset but here’s the real deal about how this works.”

 

Additionally, it truly doesn’t matter how messy or disorganized TE’s management is. Like nothing Christian said in that thread makes any difference whatsoever. Your motives for breaching a contract don’t matter one bit, if they have really failed to provide statements and pay royalties pursuant to the contract language then that’s a breach, regardless of if it was an innocent mistake or not. If the breach is material, the non-breaching party can consider the contract void. This is something that would have to play out in court but I would personally assume failing to comply with terms about providing royalty statements and payouts is a material breach. I just hope Stevie has enough money to see this through to the end. Lawsuits aren’t cheap.

 

Christian is still yammering on Twitter. Maybe trying to backpedal now? But also not really.

Must be nice to not really actively give a shit that your label owes you (and others, who actually need it) money.

 

idk kinda just look like he's adding more detail to his previous point. Only tweet he disagreed with AM was about professionalism

 

Nothing he's saying has any bearing on the situation related to the contract though. It truly does not matter what the circumstances were, or the context, or whatever. If they breached the contract they breached the contract. That's something that will be decided in court, but based on the details that we have (AM gave TE a 30-day notice, they missed it even with an extra day) it definitely sounds like they did.

 

Male privilege thoughts I had:

1) "I empathize with Adult Mom and hope things get resolved but do they have to be so <em>mean</em> when responding to people providing context to the situation? Lashing out doesn't help!"

Then after realizing that someone who has been victimized by their label has a right to be mad, deserves room to be mad when others insert themselves into the situation, and that those inserting themselves should just say "I stand with Adult Mom, this shit needs to be sorted out" instead of rationalizing and protecting the wrongdoer:

2) "I really hope that Restorations doesn't make a statement because I don't want it to be the wrong kind of statement. They're my favorite band so I don't want to be disappointed in them."

I finally knocked that shit off and decided to do something. I love Tiny Engines and their roster. I pay a monthly subscription on Bandcamp to support the label and get digital access to all their releases. I cancelled the subscription and emailed them that I won't renew it unless they make things right and/or relinquish rights to the masters. It sucks but the label I believed in isn't the label in reality.

 

direct action!! hell yeah.

 

I’d love to do a gen with all new Pokémon, none returning from old games. But then after you beat the game the full dex is available with all the Pokémon.

Gold silver always seemed like the best to me because it had two full regions, it was a brand new thing that celebrated the Passat so well.

This just seems like half measures all around.

 

Wrong thread my friend

 

This. No matter what, at the end of the day, the label breached their contract. There’s really nothing to justify that.

 

If I'm an indie artist, like regardless of my level of success, and my label is refusing to provide me with royalty statements and refusing to pay me the money I'm owed under my contract, I'm pissed. There's no excuse for it, none whatsoever. That money should not be going to other things, that's my goddamn money. I don't care how mismanaged the label is, I don't care what the owners' motivations are, I don't care about any of that. My royalties were never their money to use in the first place.

$8,000 is a lot of money to have withheld from you. And yeah that money was eventually paid but it sounds like AM now is in a position where they don't even know exactly how much money they're currently owed because they don't have up-to-date royalties statements. Screw that. No sympathy for TE, the artists always come first.

 

I wish I could triple like this. Well said.

 

Cancel Game Freak

 

But what are Christian Holdens thoughts on this?

 

1 (/?) under capitalism, game freak needs to drive demand and create scarcity, thus the removal of the national dex in the newest games