The number one driver is disrespect. When people disrespect me, I make a move... I never really make a five-year plan. I just wait for people to talk s***. | | | | Camila Cabello at the MTV Europe Music Awards, London, Nov. 12, 2017.
(Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The number one driver is disrespect. When people disrespect me, I make a move... I never really make a five-year plan. I just wait for people to talk s***.”
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| | rantnrave:// GOLDENVOICE has suddenly, with no explanation, cut all ties with FYF FEST founder SEAN CARLSON, and social media was full of speculation Monday night that I won't repeat but presumably we'll be hearing more about this HOLLYWOOD rock divorce in the coming days. No word from any corner on what this means for the future of the fest, whose marquee performers this year included FRANK OCEAN, SOLANGE, MISSY ELLIOTT and NINE INCH NAILS. "Developing," as the stories are literally saying... SCOOTER BRAUN was looking for three kinds of acts when he started his own management company. A rapper who appealed to people who wear flip-flops—cue ASHER ROTH. A pop singer who could do love songs in a childlike voice like MICHAEL JACKSON—hello JUSTIN BIEBER. And someone who would be "like BRITNEY meets PINK." He never found her. If you're looking to get into music management for yourself, there's your opening. Start surfing SNAPCHAT and YOUTUBE while listening to another solid entry in COMPLEX editor-in-chief NOAH CALLAHAN-BEVER's generous interview series, BLUEPRINT, which is basically an ongoing seminar in how to make it in the (mostly, but not exclusively, music) biz... Speaking of Bieber, move over, HANNIBAL LECTER: Actual psychopaths prefer Bieber and EMINEM to MOZART and BEETHOVEN, at least according to researchers who—here's the other breaking news—apparently were able to find enough psychopaths in NYU's psychology department to conduct their study... Playlist of the day: Inspired by KEN BURNS and LYNN NOVICK's THE VIETNAM WAR documentary, and in partnership with the filmmakers, SPOTIFY's music-and-video collection ECHOES OF VIETNAM features current artists covering Vietnam era songs and talking about why they're doing it. "They say we didn't speak, but we're speakin' through the music," says JON BATISTE, who covers NEIL YOUNG's "OHIO" with LEON BRIDGES and GARY CLARK JR. JOHN LEGEND, who takes on JONI MITCHELL's "WOODSTOCK," sys he learned after watching the documentary that his father was among the enlistees who helped diversify the Coast Guard in the 1960s. This topical, and not untimely, playlist features the classic originals, too... BRAND NEW's JESSE LACEY now has two on-the-record accusers. The GASLAMP KILLER is suing his accusers—for upwards of $5 million... RIP FRANK CORSARO. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| In the year 2000, it was certainly lost on me that "Crash Into Me" was about a stalker. I didn't have cable, so I wouldn't have seen Dave Matthews say as much on a 1999 episode of VH1 Storytellers. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Young music fans are using streaming parties to try to launch their favorite artists to the top of the charts, while the companies that track record sales do everything they can to stop them. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Scooter Braun shares the vision that helped him become one of the most powerful players in entertainment. | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| A new generation is rethinking the much-maligned genre in its own progressive image. | | |
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 | The Common Reader |
| Jazz, technology, and the way we hear music now. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The release of Sharon Jones’s final album, recorded while she had terminal cancer, is the latest example of an artist saying goodbye through music. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Feminism went from an important analytical tool for critics to a job requirement for female pop stars. | | |
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 | British GQ |
| Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jason Isbell and "Lincoln in the Bardo" author and Man Booker Prize winner George Saunders have long admired each other’s work, but have never met — until now. Here, two of America’s best writers discuss the creative process, the difference between art and entertainment, and what America means in the Trump era | | |
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| The new video aspiration is basically just a travel blogger's nine most-liked set to a montage. Why though? | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| To some, assessing an artist’s work in light of his biography is blasphemous. But it’s time to do away with the idea that they’re separate. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| Aaron Gilbreath considers the impact a live Jane’s Addiction recording has had on him, and the effect heroin had on the band’s - and his own - creativity. | | |
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 | Control FOREVER |
| The American culture has always had a fascination with the twisted and macabre. Maybe not in the literal sense, although America is the serial killer capital of the world. However, it hasn’t stopped us from the expression of horror, especially within the medium of film and music. | | |
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 | Tedium |
| For a while, hidden tracks were everywhere, especially during the CD era. But thanks to streaming music, there’s nowhere to put them. Is that good or bad? | | |
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 | Variety |
| Taylor Swift's decision to keep her new album "Reputation" off streaming services like Spotify will drive people back to piracy, said Spotify's global head of creator services Troy Carter at the Internet Association's Virtuous Circle Summit Monday morning. "A lot of it is going to be pirated," he said. | | |
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 | Resident Advisor |
| Yoga, meditation and sober morning raves--as time goes on, healthy living becomes evermore present in club culture. Angus Finlayson considers the implications. | | |
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 | The Creative Independent |
| Musician Sharon Van Etten discusses what it feels like to revisit the sad songs of her early career, recalls the moment when she let go of her day job and became a full-time artist, and the healthy merits of a slow build career. | | |
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 | Dazed Digital |
| "Under My Thumb" is a new collection of essays by women on how they reconcile their politics with the often misogynistic music they love. | | |
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| Vulture |
| K-pop still exists on the periphery of America's pop music scene, but it's had a banner year in the U.S, and Korean boy bands are largely responsible for that. | | |
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| Pitchfork |
| JAY-Z, Common, Remy Ma, Pusha T, and more have taken up one of the most important causes in America. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| The players discuss the success of strange 1992 confection - a smash amid grunge and gangsta rap - and Taylor Swift's unexpected tribute | | |
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