Many years ago, friends of friends... wouldn't come and see me because I play techno. Now they say they do want to come and see me because I play techno. People used to be scared of my techno and now they're not. They should be. | | | | Money moves: Cardi B capping her album release day a week ago at E11even Miami.
(Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Many years ago, friends of friends... wouldn't come and see me because I play techno. Now they say they do want to come and see me because I play techno. People used to be scared of my techno and now they're not. They should be.”
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| | rantnrave:// The fact that Cardi B's INVASION OF PRIVACY was certified gold immediately upon release was a simple accounting trick. The fact that it may be one of the most audacious pop debuts ever is something else. The reviews are as damn near close to unanimous and universal as I've seen for any album since maybe KENDRICK LAMAR, and they're warranted. One of those rare albums where pretty much every track sounds like a single, like this, and like this, not to mention this, but which also coheres into an actual album. Genius + soul + sass + craft. MusicSET: "Cardi B Made the Hip-Hop Album You've Been Waiting For"... Why is everyone saying NICKI MINAJ has to respond to Cardi B's album? I don't hear anyone saying MIGUEL has to do something about the WEEKND's album... (Minaj *is* dropping two songs today, though, now that you asked)... After months out of public view, following an accident that damaged her face, CARRIE UNDERWOOD returns with a single that doubles as an emotional TUMBLR announcing her return and an insta-classic feminist country anthem. NPR MUSIC's ANN POWERS does a nice job putting it in context... How and why we might start thinking about MARIAH CAREY differently... Hip-hop freeze-out in my old hometown: a long-running awards show in Asbury Park, N.J., with separate categories for indie-rock, Americana, punk, jam bands, rock and "psych/garage/surf," and then a single category covering the entirety of "R&B/soul/hip-hop." This in a city that's more than half African-American/black according to the 2010 census... This SPOTIFY/HULU bundle makes all kinds of potential sense as an optional package. Maybe several years from now when it's no longer optional, everyone will hate it and the buzzword will be unbundling. But we can worry about that later... APPLE MUSIC has 40 million subscribers and a new worldwide boss... Wait, I thought the entire point of vinyl is that it isn't digital... One billboard inside Detroit, Michigan... Fare thee well, PUREVOLUME... "Spotify Hard Mode" LOL... RIP TIMMY MATLEY. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| The fact that Cardi B's "Invasion of Privacy" was certified gold immediately upon release was a simple accounting trick. The fact that it may be one of the most audacious pop debuts ever is something else altogether. Meet pop's feminist, sassy, self-aware future. | | |
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