Accountability in Music • Page 252

imagine typing that and thinking you’re “right”

 

This deserves some more background -- I'm not familiar with family issues he's had but it was a big part of the official Warped Tour lore that Fronz was some sort of role model for kids -- seriously -- because he ran a successful business and had a family. I guess it's because whether or not he's been consistently a great family guy he's never been known for being spectacuarly violent and/or stupid like Ronnie Radke, Tim Lambresis, etc?

I have asked before if there are statistics one can access publically on Spotify plays to see if R Kelly and others were getting a spike in streaming plays when various headlines broke and I'll ask it again here. I know this may be propritary information (or they may just want to charge for this kind of info) but it would be really interesting to see if outrageous and irrational statements like this are directly tied to an increase in fan interest and revenue for the artist.

I'm not looking for literal real-time stats, I suppose that would be propriatary, rather is there any part of Spotify's web presence that has information about recent trends on streaming plays for a lot of artists, or does any music media site like Billboard, etc, have a "top ten" (or better, top 100, etc) of streaming plays, like radio used to have a "top ten" and similar charts for public plays of popular music? If this was YouTube one could count the views and likes or dislikes, but it's eerily radio-esque that streaming stats for Spotify artists seem (to me, so far) to be propriatary information.

I'll leave that question at that, I don't think I could phrase it any more simply and relavently.

 

@Martina

Despite Spotify change, R. Kelly's streams still intact

 

Thanks, arewhyayein. While I wasn't so much interested in R. Kelly's charting but about artists streaming plays and trends in general, the article you linked though did reference Nielsen Music, which I really should have though of (Nielsen and all). Thanks! I will check them out.

If anyone knows of competing or similar charts and would like to post a comment with a link, etc, I'd appreciate it.

 

This is an excellent question, but honestly one I probably do not want to know the answer to... It would be too maddening. This is the guy who sells "THIS B!TCH LYIN" t-shirts after he gets accused of rape.

 

If I had artistic talent or more time to spend on Photoshop I'd be editing Bernstein Bears cartoons to show Papa Bear as Fronz singing or speaking Attila's lyrics (maybe reading them like a story?) around the house (or mansion), driving his Lambo, etc, as the Bernstein Bear kids are dressed in his shirts, baseball caps, etc. Well, I wouldn't really do that since there are some very young kids (and a mother) involved in this story but the juxtaposition would be fitting, I think.

 

Reading this post was confusing and upsetting in more ways than I feel like describing at the moment

 

I had no idea who Fronz was and had to read up about that entire situation. Full disclosure though: I still don't understand the "blowjobs are like hugs" thing she is saying.

 

She’s essentially saying they were given to him as often as hugs are given to friends or acquaintances. They were common for him to receive with her not knowing was my interpretation.

 

Ahh, ok. Thank you. She's talking about from other people. I read what she was saying wrong from the beginning. She's talking about him downplaying them from other people, like he wasn't cheating. I read it as her referring to something between the two of them.

 

Every time I think I’m at maximum hatred for Chris Brown he continues to surpass it

 

Seeing people on social media coming out in defense of Chris Brown, and even citing racism as a motivation for Chvrches comments on the matter, is very upsetting.

 

Seems like that’s exactly what he was trying to do when he included the “black and proud” part in his rant

 

I hope we can grow as a culture to not let celebrities brush off controversy by saying “Let’s all stay positive.”

 

CHVRCHES are supporting a black woman who has been abused when they call out Chris Brown so I dunno how people can cite racism. Are black women not worthy of support?

 

My friend said there were people heckling CHVRCHES at the show here due to their Chris brown comments

 

I know right like where's Tyga to tell Chris to stay positive? Since when is supporting abuse survivors not positive anyway? This positive/good vibes only stuff is getting ridic

 

Its much more harmful for a musician to call out abusers than it is to be an abuser

Whole system is fucked

 

it's weird because with Chris Brown it's not like there's any plausible deniability, we know he beat Rihanna and stalked Karrueche, it's so obvious that he's a shitty person
so people defending him are either saying that there should be a statute of limitations on that, which there shouldn't, or that his talent makes it okay, which it doesn't

 

remember when he smashed a window with a chair on good morning america when asked about rihanna

 

Re: the needle drop. Someone sent this to me, I don’t have a horse in the race but it looks like he was unaware and removed it when he found out. Not saying this cleanses him, but seems relevant.

 

Austin Jones sentencing is today:

YouTube star faces prison for coercing teen admirers to perform sexually explicit dances in live online chats

 

YouTube is poison

 

i forgot Austin Jones existed before I clicked the link and just assumed it was BryanStars

 

Austin Jones, singer who hit it big on YouTube, given 10 years in prison for child pornography conviction