One of my favorite Wardruna albums is no longer available on Spotify for some reason and this is exactly the thing I've been talking about. I can still see the songs in my Playlist, but they're grayed out and unselectable. So I've paid for a thing that has now been taken away from me with no notice and no compensation.
This is why I buy CDs and burn them and THEN never, ever let iTunes see the original library files. There's a #WeirdAlYankovic song "Couch Potato" on Poodle Hat that iTunes deleted from my library because of a copyright dispute between Al and Eminem. I OWN THE CD, i have a PHYSICAL COPY of the song but iTunes deleted the file from my computer. I never let iTunes see my library again and use #VLC instead.
Also if you want Couch Potato in your rotation just name it something different, it will play anyway and if iTunes catches a whiff of your files it won't know to delete a missnamed file.
"It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on [#Spotify this year,” #WeirdAlYankovic said in his video. “So, if I’m doing the math right that means I earned $12. Enough to get myself a nice #sandwich at a restaurant.”
He added, “So from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support and thanks for the sandwich.”]
@ike_seblon one of the first albums I ever purchased on cassette was Weird Al Yankovic and Wendy Carlos doing a rendition of Peter and the Wolf.
It certainly wasn't the Weird Al album I was hoping to purchase, but given that I was living in an area kind of distant from decent music vendors, I was grateful to find anything at all. Moreover, I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome anyway!
64 years ago today, Weird Al Yankovic, American accordionist and parody singer-songwriter ("Eat It"; "Another One Rides The Bus"), and actor (UHF; Naked Gun), born in Downey, California #WeirdAlYankovic
It mainly shows how distinctive Weird Al’s voice is, though MechaLorde singing ‘Foil’ is pretty good
AI has the potential to disrupt the whole comedy genre of pop-cultural pastiche and parody. Why would you watch comedians doing impressions of celebrities, or riffing on pop-culture texts, when you could just manipulate the celebrity yourself using AI?
Still, what constantly annoys me about the state of AI-driven parody (eg the meme of pop-culture characters as #Balenciaga models) is that the writing underpinning them is so poor
So even if we get to a point where we can completely puppeteer real people’s likenesses and voices, it still fails if there isn’t decent writing
Weird Al’s writing has always been excellent and hilarious. I mean, lines like in ‘Fat’, his parody of ‘Bad’: “When I sit around the house, I really sit around the house”
So far, that kind of stuff can’t be automatically generated – AI-created comedy is of the surreal and absurdist kind that reads as an unintentional, “machine-innocent” artefact of the generation process
This sign is on the men’s bathroom at one of my work locations. There must be a story behind it, but I am not privy to it. I wonder what prompted its hanging?
J'ai découvert le hashtag #pouetradio je vais donc l'utiliser en association avec mon hashtag personnel #incpamoasears pour récapituler ce que j'ai posté jusqu'ici :)
Je continuerai dorénavant sous ce pouet pour en faire un fil :)
Weird Al Yankovic m'a gâché plein de morceaux de musique. Si j'entends la version originale à la radio, je ne peux m'empêcher de penser à sa version à lui. Mais je l'adore quand même :D