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I remember leading up to the Brexit vote that my English friends were getting emails saying Turkish people were going to invade the UK when they joined the EU. Strangely I didn’t get that email. Still waiting for Turks to join the EU & flood the country.
#BBCLauraK: “You said that Turkey was being fast tracked into the EU, that wasn’t right was it?”
Nigel Farage: “Yes it was. We’ve been paying Turkey billions in aid for many years”
LK: “It wasn’t true they were being fast tracked”
NF: “It was entire true”
LK: “It wasn’t true”
This is a horrific idea. Seriously fuck Spotify. I hate the fact that they’ve engineered it so you can’t get your music heard unless it’s on their platform
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
This has been a project in the works for 4 years now. Today we released our first single. Go and stream it where you get your music.
forwarders.co.uk
Our today, our first single “Shade & Common Ground” out on all streaming platforms.
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Seems like @Nigel_Farage social media bots are malfunctioning. Same happening with @LeeAndersonMP_ or @RobertJenrick accounts 😂 might have something to do with the fact that Meta backend rolled out a tweak that essentially, for lack of better phrasing, digitally concussed the bots, so they can't completely touch base with the central LLM.
So it's defaulted to absurd nonsensicalisms from the bots.
Just shows that Reform is basically a bot farm. Something that we knew for a long time.
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Elon Musk
Just what an incredible fall from grace…
From innovative, eco-conscious, cool nerd…
To depraved, entitled, evil, war-mongering, self-radicalised fuckwit.
Been saying for a while now, Nicholas Jackson has all the attributes to be a very good striker. So disrespected at Chelsea
