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How to get attention in the music business if you’re a third rate commentator: rail against whatever is obvious, and use big statements that mean nothing but pe
by saaaaaam 3y ago
How to get attention in the music business if you’re a third rate commentator: rail against whatever is obvious, and use big statements that mean nothing but people can get behind. That’s much easier than working out the nuance of the business.
- dylan604 3y agoThey lost me with the "honest-broker" domain.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoHe's been writing stuff for years. Some of his essays have been frontpaged on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=honest-broker.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=honest-broker.com That said, he's not really what I come here to read.
- dylan604 3y agoI'm not familiar at all, but seeing that a musical artist known for fighting ticketing systems and ticket brokers with an "open letter" while purporting to be an honest broker just already strikes me as something that I'm not going agree. It's just has the air of something like big oil running a website called clean-energy. That's just from reading the link. After reading the TFA, I'm not impressed at all
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoHe hasn't had that "honest-broker.com" domain name for too long. Most of his writing was done under a different domain, which I can't recall.
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoSay what you want about music critics but Ted Gioia is certainly not a “third rate commentator”. He’s certainly more accomplished and more thoughtful in his writing than 99% of critics out there https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia
- saaaaaam 3y agoA lot of what I see from him is outright clickbait, or is such an over-simplification and elision of complex arguments as to be misleading, or is just incorrect opinion dressed up as fact. I know he is well regarded as a jazz critic but that’s very different from his current incarnation of industry commentator/pundit.