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[blessingx]

Chechnya is banning music that's too fast or slow

"Musical, vocal and choreographic" works will be limited to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM) to "conform to the Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm," said Dadayev, according to the Russian state-run news agency TASS.

"Borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible," Dadayev said, per a translation by The Guardian. "We must bring to the people and to the future of our children the cultural heritage of the Chechen people. This includes the entire spectrum of moral and ethical standards of life for Chechens."

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243632570/chechnya-music-ban-bpm 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/09/chechnya-bans-dance-music-either-too-fast-slow 

[blessingx]

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/maTypfBS7W 

 

[dsavitsk]

What your favorite music says about you — and your politics

https://wapo.st/3UwjXj7

 

[swt61]

I skew that chart considerably. 

Country and Classic Rock are two of my favorite genres. And I'm a very liberal Democrat. 

Edited May 6 by swt61

[TMoney]

That guy's articles rule.

[blessingx]

Let’s play guess the year this was written… 

Taylor Swift Is Not a Good Role Model
https://www.newsweek.com/taylor-swift-not-good-role-model-opinion-1916799 

 

[grawk]

1 hour ago, blessingx said:

Let’s play guess the year this was written… 

Taylor Swift Is Not a Good Role Model
https://www.newsweek.com/taylor-swift-not-good-role-model-opinion-1916799 

 

I'm gonna guess 1964, those women sure were getting uppity then.

[mikeymad]

"A decade ago, she practically introduced Diet Coke,"

Um... prior IP Grahame?

[blessingx]

We just keep looping. 

 

[Grahame]

Just stay away from six flags, OK

https://www.dailydot.com/news/six-flags-diet-coke-cost/

 

 

[dsavitsk]

On 7/1/2024 at 10:37 AM, blessingx said:

Let’s play guess the year this was written… 

Taylor Swift Is Not a Good Role Model
https://www.newsweek.com/taylor-swift-not-good-role-model-opinion-1916799 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/newsweek-josh-hammer-misogyny-taylor-swift

the fact that many people still think of Newsweek as a vaguely reputable brand – has proved very useful to the far right. In 2022, for example, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a respected civil rights advocacy organization, published an extensive analysis that found that after Newsweek positioned the political activist Josh Hammer to run its opinion pages..., the magazine took a “radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders”. In his personal podcast, the SPLC observe, Hammer has frequently spoken about “[shifting] the Overton window” and pushing far-right views into the mainstream; that, arguably, was also his goal at Newsweek. As the New Republic noted back in 2020, it certainly looks a lot like Newsweek’s “former legitimacy is [being] used to launder extreme and conspiratorial ideas”.

[dsavitsk]

 

Cypress Hill makes 1996 Simpsons joke come true

London Symphony Orchestra to play Black Sunday album at Royal Albert Hall decades after featuring on TV show

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/10/hip-hop-band-cypress-hill-makes-1996-simpsons-joke-come-true-london-symphony-orchestra

[Knuckledragger]

Introducing the

🙂🕶️😎

TICEberg.

 

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/giant-phallus-shaped-iceberg-floating-in-conception-bay-surprises-residents-of-dildo-canada

[swt61]

And you know what they say, you only see 1/10th of the iceberg above water!

[blessingx]

 

[dsavitsk]

I wanna be top-rated: Ramones’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Commence arguing.

[skullguise]

Thanks Doug.  No "argument" per se from me....many of them I'd choose as well, would indeed change the order of some.  But everything is just an opinion, this one just expressed in an more public article.

[swt61]

Who are the Ramones?

[swt61]

That was meant to get Doug's ire.

[robm321]

For a summer, San Francisco was home to the most beautiful sound in the world

[robm321]

A Jerry Lewis movie filmed in 1972 was so bad (in a dark way) that it was never released. He donated the unfinished movie to the Library of Congress with the stipulation that it would not be released until 2024.

“This movie is so drastically wrong its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is.”

‘The Day the Clown Cried’: Why Jerry Lewis’s Lost Holocaust Film Is Still Lost

[blessingx]

Wait, I thought it was stipulated until after his death? And it's been seen by select people. 

 

 

[robm321]

I'm a little confused too. Here's where I got the 2024 release date:

"Rob Stone, indicated that the library had whole negatives but had agreed not to release them until 2024."

I Want to see it but can't find anything other than 30 minutes of leaked footage?

https://archive.org/details/project-55

They claim to have ~90 minutes.

 

Edited August 31 by robm321

[blessingx]

Some of Bob Dylan's most raucous rock comes to life on 'The 1974 Live Recordings'
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/g-s1-25431/some-of-bob-dylans-most-raucous-rock-comes-to-life-on-the-1974-live-recordings 

Sampler on some streaming services 

[dsavitsk]

Limp Bizkit’s fraud lawsuit rattles music industry: ‘These accusations are massive’

Band alleges that Universal Music Group owes it more than $200m after concealing royalties

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/13/limp-bizkit-universal-music-group-lawsuit