Oh boy, just thought of a new Quip that I can't wait to post on Patreon!

It's been said many times before but it's always worth saying again: The Luddites were a labor movement.

Realized it'd been 10 days so I went to see what was going on with this and it looks like youtube just... ignored my counternotice? I submitted another one, we'll see what happens.

It's been a long time since someone tried to push me this hard. Oh, well. Let's see if they want to get laughed out of a courtroom or not.

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

Some important musicology here and in the replies

Imagine the utopia we could build if a lot of TikTok videos were 20-second clips from podcasts. This is what they took from you.

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

Social media asks us to consider all negative feedback like a setback, but sometimes you’re gonna make a thing and some people are just gonna think it stinks. For everything you love, there’s someone who thinks it stinks. Sometimes it’s good to remember that not everyone SHOULD like what you make

For reasons that will hopefully become apparent eventually, my job has forced me to learn that this is the 29th-best selling single of 1948:

In the end, it turned out even he couldn't handle being Under so much Pressure.

Becoming a chord inversion truther for fun. There's no such thing as a chord inversion, all chords are heard in relation to their bass notes. If you can't find a good label for the voicing, that's a skill issue. Stuck hearing some abstract "function" that implies another root? Also a skill issue.

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

The good news: I finally finished this script. The bad news:

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

they really said you’ll get paid in exposure to the city of los angeles

This is why everyone should have a podcast.

People will say “Oh so Google gets mad about copyright when people do it but not when they do” but these two images are consistent: your creative labor is a profitable plaything for people more powerful that you

This is musicology.

Transgressive art is important to make for posterity because fascists love to try to tell you people didn't used to be weird

between the AI graduation speeches & the Knicks game last night, booing is having a bit of a moment rn. interesting to think about how booing is how publics are manifesting themselves contra technologies & politics bent on destroying society/the public/etc

One good thing I got from the arts and humanities is a sense that things in your inner life can be real even if they are not directly reflected in external reality

Sorry to LA-post on main, but "She has no base" is a very funny thing to say about a sitting City Council member in defense of a guy who was on a tv show a couple decades ago and has never been elected to any office at any level.

It’s not enough for Spencer Pratt to lose I also want him to slip on a banana peel and have his pants split open and then everyone sees he’s wearing heart print boxers and they point and laugh and he runs away to the Palisades in tears even though he doesn’t live there.

The calendar is in lydian.

So, the reason I was curious is that, on the one hand, it has a lot of typical chorus elements, including the title of the song, and it clearly arrives like a chorus, rather than building like a prechorus. But...

Song form question: How would you describe this section in Dancing Queen? Is it the start of a 16-bar chorus, or a prechorus leading into a chorus that starts 8 bars later? I have thoughts but I'm curious how y'all hear it.

Hey, so, I'm sorry this next video is taking so long: I've been dealing with a bunch of other stuff, and, as always, the analysis wound up being more complicated than I thought it'd be going in. But I promise I'm working on it! I just don't know yet when it'll be complete.

I think one of the problems is that people keep saying conservative when they actually mean racist. No conservative is like, "Oh, I can't listen to Kendrick because I'm actually in favor of a small, limited government that doesn't put money into a social safety net."

Daily Memo: ICE Is Detaining People Who Show The “Know Your Rights” Red Cards

Ok fine. In-N-Out is a better burger than, say, McDonald's, but that says a lot more about McDonald's than it does about In-N-Out.

As one of those people who did, for a long time, manage to hack my neurodiversity into a productivity superpower, I'd also add that while it can be very effective in the short term, it's painfully unsustainable. What looks like a prolific output is often just deferred burnout.

In researching the production of this song, I've found multiple sources confirming a particular technique was used, but they're all like youtube videos and blogs and stuff and none of them cite it to anything so I'm pretty sure this thing happens but I'm not sure how confident I can be AAAAAAAHHHHHH

Social media *is* my job and it's *still* not my responsibility to waste my time and emotional energy on twitter. I can't even begin to fathom why someone who's not even a professional content creator would still bother with that place.

why are you proofreading? just believe in yourself

One of my least favorite genres of music theory video title is "This song that you would assume is bad based on what/where/who it's from is actually really good!" All songs are good. Being surprised is a skill issue.

Stockhausen is just astrology for boys

Dang it, I made a cool connection about the song I'm analyzing, then when I went to look at the wikipedia page for unrelated reasons, I saw it was one of the first things mentioned, so now people will think I'm just reading wikipedia. I promise I'm a qualified professional who noticed on my own!

This is musicology.

Even *I* take my research obligations more seriously than these responders and I'm just out here making fun little youtube videos about beeps n' boops.

This is always true, but especially so for media creators talking about celebrities. You can just look up interviews! It's not hard to find clips of famous people saying their own names!

lol call me crazy, but I think we can emphasize clear communication without demonizing academia. 🤷🏿‍♀️

This is musicology.

Feature-length video essayists are really something else. If I had a word count even vaguely approaching five digits I would simply melt into a fine mist and drift away on the breeze, never to be seen or heard from again.

"This one small action won't fix everything so there's no point in the one small action" is just nihilism disguised as savviness. Why even bother commenting on anything if you don't think small actions can ever be effective?

I've been wanting to make a video about this for, like, 8 years, and I decided it was finally time. Enjoy!

This is the only correct way to respond to these sorts of things.

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

No matter how long I do this job, I hope I never become so jaded as to not revel in the post-upload ritual of closing a bunch of tabs and documents that I don't need anymore.