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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Dec 4, 2020 19:39:58 GMT
Dua Lipa Shows The Music Industry A Way to Make a Fortune AgainHer live-streamed concert event, called Club 2054, attracted five million views. At $10 per person that would be $50 million . To put that in context, it’s around 10-15 times what a Paul McCartney stadium show would generate. Just astonishing. it help selling music when you are young and hot. It has the most to do with it Fantastic. I'll stick with the old fashioned live shows, thanks. Well, we may not have much of a choice, at least for awhile. I see your point. But I still see life as a continuous thing. As always, there’s nothing new under the sun. How is a global livestream that’s “more like TV or a movie with special guests” really any different from Paul McCartney’s 1973 network TV special, or from Elvis’s 1968 comeback special or his 1973 global TV broadcast from Hawaii, or from the old-fashioned 70s musical variety shows we all grew up on? Same old wine in new bottles. Fitting, because let's face it, as with so many other aspects of the concert business (such as merchandising), KISS basically started all this, these huge glitzy stage productions. KISS was prescient, in the 1970s they saw (and helped create) the future that their critics slammed them for and could not grasp. As I noted above, more like the Beatles Our World live 1967 appearance, Elvis’s 1968 and 1973 TV specials (only which of which was live, admittedly) and concert movies from Pink Floyd at Pompeii to Zep’s Song Remains the Same started all this. If the band can’t come to your town in person, you can turn on the TV or go to the movie theatre, or, later, pop a VHS tape or DVD into a player, and watch the band. As others have stated, this is absolutely nothing new and what artists are already doing (living room shows, etc.) online. When I and others had a band project, we had this exact idea that Dua Lipa did, assuming we as a band ever made it that far. The project didn't pan out for various reasons, but they invented nothing here.
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Post by daved on Dec 5, 2020 0:22:26 GMT
I’ve seen her album on a lot of best of 2020 lists. She must be doing something right.
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Post by bradman on Dec 5, 2020 0:24:39 GMT
Her collab with Miley Is good.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Dec 5, 2020 3:28:42 GMT
I’ve grown to like Dua Lipa’s music quite a bit. For the past few years, whenever a song catches my attention and becomes an earworm, it’s inevitably one of hers.
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Post by aaa-appreciator on Dec 5, 2020 13:41:03 GMT
Somewhat on topic, I heard a Taylor Swift song, Betty, on the radio today and I thought it was really good! I only know Shake it Off so thought she was mostly pop but I think I’ll stream the new album as it had more of an indie vibe. I’m sure the thought of streaming a Swift album would trigger many a shite.
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Post by daved on Dec 5, 2020 15:03:28 GMT
Somewhat on topic, I heard a Taylor Swift song, Betty, on the radio today and I thought it was really good! I only know Shake it Off so thought she was mostly pop but I think I’ll stream the new album as it had more of an indie vibe. I’m sure the thought of streaming a Swift album would trigger many a shite. It’s in my top 5 albums of the year. |
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Dec 5, 2020 15:35:49 GMT
I love Betty.
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Post by aaa-appreciator on Dec 5, 2020 17:39:06 GMT
Somewhat on topic, I heard a Taylor Swift song, Betty, on the radio today and I thought it was really good! I only know Shake it Off so thought she was mostly pop but I think I’ll stream the new album as it had more of an indie vibe. I’m sure the thought of streaming a Swift album would trigger many a shite. It’s in my top 5 albums of the year. Wow, OK, I’ve probably misjudged her based on the one song I know. Not that Shake it Off is a bad song at all, it’s not my thing. |
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Dec 5, 2020 17:40:57 GMT
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Post by daved on Dec 5, 2020 22:22:25 GMT
It’s in my top 5 albums of the year. Wow, OK, I’ve probably misjudged her based on the one song I know. Not that Shake it Off is a bad song at all, it’s not my thing. I can’t stand her other stuff. This album is completely different. I’ve said it before, it’s the album I knew she had in her. |
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Post by philspacedoor on Dec 6, 2020 1:31:45 GMT
Dua Lipa Shows The Music Industry A Way to Make a Fortune AgainHer live-streamed concert event, called Club 2054, attracted five million views. At $10 per person that would be $50 million . To put that in context, it’s around 10-15 times what a Paul McCartney stadium show would generate. Just astonishing. it help selling music when you are young and hot. It has the most to do with it Fantastic. I'll stick with the old fashioned live shows, thanks. Well, we may not have much of a choice, at least for awhile. I see your point. But I still see life as a continuous thing. As always, there’s nothing new under the sun. How is a global livestream that’s “more like TV or a movie with special guests” really any different from Paul McCartney’s 1973 network TV special, or from Elvis’s 1968 comeback special or his 1973 global TV broadcast from Hawaii, or from the old-fashioned 70s musical variety shows we all grew up on? Same old wine in new bottles. Fitting, because let's face it, as with so many other aspects of the concert business (such as merchandising), KISS basically started all this, these huge glitzy stage productions. KISS was prescient, in the 1970s they saw (and helped create) the future that their critics slammed them for and could not grasp. As I noted above, more like the Beatles Our World live 1967 appearance, Elvis’s 1968 and 1973 TV specials (only which of which was live, admittedly) and concert movies from Pink Floyd at Pompeii to Zep’s Song Remains the Same started all this. If the band can’t come to your town in person, you can turn on the TV or go to the movie theatre, or, later, pop a VHS tape or DVD into a player, and watch the band. As others have stated, this is absolutely nothing new and what artists are already doing (living room shows, etc.) online. When I and others had a band project, we had this exact idea that Dua Lipa did, assuming we as a band ever made it that far. The project didn't pan out for various reasons, but they invented nothing here. It's the old "my kid could paint that" argument... |
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Post by banjowhackadoo on Jan 1, 2022 4:03:34 GMT
Loved her Future Nostalgia album. That's got some fine tunes on it.
I do love the "she's invented nothing new" shtick here. Maybe not. But she's good, got great talent, and rather more than a bunch of wannabe wannabes on an internet forum. She went out and did it, and you can throw in Sophie Ellis Bextor's lockdown Kitchen Discos as well. These two have more gumption in them than most of the SHites put together and that's the difference.
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Post by krabapple on Jan 1, 2022 4:21:33 GMT
KISS started all this
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