What do we think of her?
Is she counter-hegemonic, or part of a Bonapartist counter-gang?
>>2301Correct response.
Vid related is a huge redpill.
anarchismAnarchism >>2311The documentary pretty much confirms she's part of a Bonapartist counter-gang.
Basically, the music industry has been going through crisis since the mid 2000s. Big Tech has tried to take over the entire music industry as a means of stabilizing the crisis. They're doing this by ensuring streaming services become the dominant medium, and in order to "sell" streaming to the broader music industry they used Billie as their figurehead.
Billie was "discovered" in 2015 by her brother's manager who had ties to Interscope Records. He got her signed to Platoon, an artist development company which was created by the co-creator of iTunes. Soon after being "planted" by Platoon she was signed to Interscope and received a ton of promotion from Apple, to which Platoon was affiliated (it's now owned by Apple). It was due to this massive amount of promotion via Apple that Billie became an enormously successful pop star.
Platoon functions very similar to a label except for one thing: it allows artists to keep their masters. The reason why this is highly significant is because streaming services need to have labels license artists' music in order to host them on their sites. If the artist owns the masters, they can give their music to the streaming platforms without needing to go through a middle man, and because streaming has become the main form of music consumption, artists will be very willing to hand their music over for that exposure/distribution. The future Apple and Spotify see are Big Tech agencies like Platoon taking over artists from labels and prioritizing them on streaming playlists (since these agencies are all affiliated with streaming platforms). It's all about monopolizing the industry against the major labels.
>>2313Both of her parents are Hollywood actors.
Her uncle is also ex-Congressman Brian Baird, who is close friends with John Kerry.
>>2314Ok. So a bunch of capitalist pigs eating other capitalist pigs.
But is her music like legit? is she actually talented?
If the answer is yes for both questions then it doesn't matter if she really is a plant or not. Real talent deserves praise irregardless IMHO.
I don't know if she is good or not cuz I have never listened to any of her songs and I don't plan to.
>>2314>>2315It's not just that. Artists have been trying to organize against the streaming platforms for at least seven years now on account that streaming isn't paying them and is making album sales pretty much useless. Crises in capitalism (especially labour unrest) ALWAYS occur whenever a new technology is brought in. It's known too that many artists (especially independent ones) are going public about starting some kind of musicians' union in order to take down Spotify and Apple. Billie is very useful to the music industry in this regard because her career was supposed to "prove" that a legitimate artist could become extremely successful due to streaming as a means of shutting up any other musician who complains about streaming screwing them over.
So basically, Billie is a glorified strike-breaker.
>>2332>probably selling their music directly to the streaming platform is a little less exploitative than rellying on the labelNot entirely true. The only reason musicians sign to labels in the first place is for exposure. With the advent of streaming, it would seem as if labels are obsolete because any obscure artist can put their music on to Spotify and get some attention. But, that's not how it works in practice. Playlisting from streaming sites is how unknown artists get big, and artists only get put on playlists due to deals with the streaming sites (which are usually made by a label or an agency like Platoon).
Labels are horrible, sure, but streaming services are equally as horrible.
>>2414Happier Than Ever is her second album, set to release in 10 days.
When We All Fall Asleep… is her first album, released in 2019.
She also has an EP she released in 2017.
one of the most obvious industry plants
>>2432center right image haunts my dreams
>>2486Also, I don't think I'd compare her to Marina. I see Billie's music as a watered-down version of the dark electronica type stuff that had a presence in the late 2000s/early 2010s, artists like Zola Jesus and Fever Ray or the entire Witch House genre.
Vid related is what her new song reminds me of. I wouldn't be surprised if other songs on her new album sound like this.
sabo-tabbySabo-Tabby >>2301This
She's your new ordained pop queen.
>>2301Radlibs: "capitalists create products"
Marxists: "capitalists steal the value created by workers and alienate them from the fruits of their labor"
>>3116>whisper singerskek
now that I think about it, I fucking hate whisper singing
>>2730red meat and beans isn't a fucking cure for health problems lmao
also it's a shit diet besides
>>3450goddamn
>>3661opposite for me tbh
>>3662low income/hungry/low iq
>>3666nou
>satan tripsoh fuck I got owned
>>3669yes i have a small penis
u should admit your own shortcummings to urself tho
>>2462>>3449>>3450>>3657oh my fucking GOD
probably has a horrible personality though
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