Jump to content
OneHallyu Will Be Closing End Of 2023 ×
OneHallyu

Usagi.

Member
  • Posts

    6,802
  • Joined

  • Won

    13,013,190 [ Donate ]

Posts posted by Usagi.

  1. Yeah well...I guess at this point the intentions behind this drama are very fishy. It really looks like some pro right wing revisionism to me, i don't know what the real intentions are, maybe to make NSA look like heroes and bring the theories about Spy students back.

    Idk, I think at least some people can relate if they come from countries that had a past with military dictatorship, it's always the same bs with trying to excuse all the torture and murder against students or young people in general by saying they were spies from a socialist country, there's a lot of revisionism regarding military dictatorship all over, this whole issue leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, ngl...

    • Like 7
  2. Idk what's the point of getting worried about this type of stuff... 

    Sure it must be unconfortable, but they are all adults, and the company shareholders, not damsel in distress who needs their fans to speak over them or protect them from the company all the time.

    This whole idea around going after Hybe for every single thing is just really tiring, even as someone who doesn't participate when a good part of the fandom is yelling about some stuff the company did, it just looks like these people see other kpop stans doing it to other big companies over the years and started feeling the need to do the same, so others wouldn't think they are company stans.

    • Like 2
    • Dislike 2
  3. Should have put all this effort in voting for whoever they wanted in the group.

    Too many people, at least on twt, were too busy saying the vilest things about her every day to do anything else.

    Edit: I just noticed there are two threads about this already, so I guess you are mad. She is going to debut regardless of your opinions, which I'm 100% sure are mostly related to her brother being from Hybe than any other reasons to not like her. That's just sad.

    • Like 1
    • Dislike 1
  4. On 9/20/2021 at 3:02 AM, Brightsun said:

    Nothing.

    Seems like just a bunch of jobless people trying to throw anything at BTS and see what sticks. 

    @the jobless and obsessed: looking for reasons to trash a Kpop group will not help you on the job market, but why not join your country's army if you care so much about the military? 

     

     

     

    So, nothing is what I thought

    • Dislike 3
  5. Is it really true tho? Shelters have all kind of dogs, not all of them have past traumas or a hard to deal with behaviour. They have small pups, adult and older dogs as well. 

    Shelters (at least the ones I know here) give the potential tutors the most info they can give, if they think a traumatized dog won't be the best idea for a person who never had a dog before they won't recommend or even allow for that dog to be adopted by that person. 

  6. 7 minutes ago, Dont mind me said:

    I gave you an answer to your own questions and now it is isn't relevant anymore, that is a bit odd isnt it?  This is what I meant with some fans not knowing how to critically ask questions or know how to review them.

    But I guess we can agree to disagree. 

    What's irrelevant is your frustrations towards a fandom, it's literally what I wrote.

    And no, I said before we are not speaking about the same things, so you didnt answer my "questions" ( opinions, actually). I said over and over again my issue with this article is that you won't see journalists asking about chart manipulation >directly<to western artists on interviews. You talked about Kanye and Drake but none of the questions mentioned are about chart manipulation.

    Then I said these kind of discussions about BB sales can happen with articles, not asking to artists, just like happened with bundles. And again said artists aren't asked about chart manipulation, and you showed me an article where there's a discussion about payola without having to ask anything directly to any artist on an interview.

    Just keep saying whatever to prove whatever point you are trying to make, I guess. I wont bother to open your quotes anymore anyway.

    • Like 1
    • Clown 2
  7. 44 minutes ago, Dont mind me said:

    The same magazine had this article out as well. 

      Hide contents

    Spotify's 'Discovery Mode' Is Payola, Just Not the Bad Kind (Guest Op-Ed)
    By Christopher Buccafusco & Kristelia Garcia
    6/28/2021

    https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/streaming/9593865/spotify-discovery-mode-payola-guest-op-ed/
    Spotify

    Regulating Discovery Mode by effectively putting a "paid promotion" sticker on tracks could potentially close off one of the only low-cost access points available to indie artists on the service
    For decades, musicians have paid radio DJs — in cash, drugs, and copyrights – to play their songs, hoping that the increased exposure would lead to greater record sales. And since the 1960s, this practice, known as payola, has been regulated by the federal government. Now, Spotify has devised a new way for musicians to access coveted and lucrative spots on its playlists. Artists can accept less money in royalties from the platform.

    Spotify calls it "Discovery Mode." We call it reverse payola.

    On June 2, Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Hank Johnson sent a letter to Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek expressing concern that the program could lead to a "race to the bottom," as musicians and their labels accept less and less money for access to audiences. This seems bad. But, it's important to ask whether Discovery Mode is really worse for musicians and consumers than a world in which it doesn't exist. We think the answer is probably "no."


    Anyone with an internet connection can post their music to YouTube or Spotify. The challenge now is getting people to listen to it. To reach audiences, aspiring musicians can hook up with TikTok influencers who will dance to their songs for money. Or they can pay the thousands of independent playlisters on Spotify to add their tunes to popular playlists. An entire subindustry of social media music promotion has sprung up specifically to assist musicians with these endeavors.

    Upside/Downside: As Spotify's ARPU Drops, Subscriber 'Lifetime Value' Has Grown

    Historically, the justifications for regulating payola were (i) that it harmed consumers, and (ii) that it harmed competition. But as we describe in a forthcoming law review article exploring the history of payola, in the 1950s and 1960s, these "harms" were often used as a cover for run-of-the-mill racism. The growth in popularity of rock-and-roll—or "race music" as it was called at the time -- unsettled and upset the established, white songwriters and recording artists of the era. Pay-for-play was one way for traditionally marginalized artists to get a foot in the door of an industry that was otherwise closed to them.

    Christopher Buccafusco, Kristelia Garciá
    Cardozo School of Law/The University of Colorado Law School
    Christopher Buccafusco and Kristelia Garciá

    Today, superstar artists on major record labels have both the resources and the connections to get their songs on coveted playlists without having to resort to "Discovery Mode." Independent artists without major record deals or sufficient resources may not. For them, "reverse payola" serves as a means of access to crucial distribution outlets. Why target regulation at an innovation that could increase the diversity of musical offerings?

    Consider an analogy: An exclusive private high school uses a secret admissions formula to determine which students get to attend. Lo and behold, those spots consistently go to the children of the rich and well-connected. Now imagine that the school adopts a lottery for 20% of the spots in the class. Lottery tickets are relatively inexpensive, and people can buy as many as they want. Of course, some rich parents will still buy a lot of lottery tickets. (Hi, Lori Laughlin!) Others may eschew the whole process either because they're confident their children will be admitted anyway or because they find the lottery vulgar. The lottery system is far from perfect, but in the end, some disadvantaged kids will end up with lottery tickets that hit, and the resulting class will be more diverse than one without the lottery.

    Music Discovery Is Entering New Age, With Streaming at the Helm (Guest Column)

    Streaming payola operates in much the same way. Instead of a closed and secret system where the major record labels control access to audiences, it introduces a lottery for low-priced tickets to success.

    It's important to note that payola is not and never has been illegal. Rather, payola regulation merely requires disclosure of payola by the party who accepts it. Disclosure is effective in minimizing payola because artists don't want to be seen as having paid for their popularity instead of earning it on merit (a romantic, if laughable, concept). Regulating Spotify Discovery Mode like this—effectively putting a "paid promotion" sticker on tracks by artists who opt to use it—makes it less appealing, potentially closing off one of the only low-cost access points available to independent artists.

    To be clear, we don't think this is necessarily the best of all possible worlds for music distribution. While it's amazing that listeners can access tens of millions of songs on Spotify or Apple Music for a relatively low monthly fee, it's also concerning that three major record labels and a handful of tech platforms control so much access to music. If Congress is worried about music distribution and artist equity, it should focus its attention on the increasing market power of platforms and labels—not on the smaller artists trying to get a leg up.

    Christopher Buccafusco is director of the Intellectual Property & Information Law Program at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. Kristelia Garcia is associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School and Director of the Intellectual Property Initiative at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship.

    It mentions several western record company and how payola works and that no artist is actually naturally grown artist. It is a common practice and KPOP didn't invent it, they just perfecting it and put in on steroids. So of course it got noticed.

    Nobody is exempt by this questioning as I said before, even westerns artists are asked as well. The only reason why I am replying to you is that I am frustrated that Army's are babying BTS. They can take care of themselves as we see RM is doing just fine in this article and even had a better question for them. In the end it was a justified and it needed be asked to clear the air.

    At this point I said the same thing over and over again so I wont repeat myself, you aren't even talking about what I'm saying, no point to keep quoting me, just read it all again.

    And idc about your frustrations about a fandom, it's irrelevant to me and to my opinions as well.

    • Clown 4
    • Dislike 2
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.

Back to Top