"Good thing I like my friends cancelled / I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal ... At least you know exactly who your friends are / They're the ones with matching scars."
— Taylor Swift from Cancelled!
Here are the posts that have appeared in the New Music Lives™ Group on Facebook this week...
• The Disappearance of Mainstream Music— Why It’s Good News for Indie Artists from the Indie Music Minute on YouTube— Remember when there used to be one “song of the summer”? Not anymore. With streaming and social media fragmenting music discovery, the mainstream is disappearing.
• The Reputation Killers of the Music Industry from Terence Fisher on YouTube— A good reputation in music is like cash in the bank, opening doors to great opportunity and better gigs. Don't let bad credits ruin your chances at career opportunities.
• Spotify has deleted 75m+ tracks in ‘spammy’ AI music crackdown from musicbusinessworldwide— Spotify introduces a suite of new policies for managing AI-generated content on its service…
• This week's TrueFans AMP™... More than 'good enough' (and so are you!)
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... and here's the more...
• Adele’s Story from Interesting world on Facebook— “My dad left me. I was mocked for my body. And yet, I filled stadiums singing about the very things that once broke me.”
• Alan Garmonsway Invites Everyone to check out the ISSA— International Singer Songwriter’s Association, a great way to feel positive about life as a Songwriter /recording artist. PS. Alan’s a Gold Medal winner this year!
• Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' is here: Everything to know. from GoodMorningAmerica— Her 12th studio album came out at midnight ET a week ago (wonder how it's doing?) Thursday, October 2. “The Life of a Showgirl” is slated to include 12 songs (see track list in the article).
• What's the Best Decade in Music? Mailbag from cantgetmuchhigher .com— This month we dive into questions about Mariah Carey, long albums, the greatest artists of all time, and so much more. Really... What do you say. The responses are Onederful.
• The Future of Music (Do This Before 2026) from Manafest on YouTube— Spotify recently Deleted 75M spam tracks created by A.I. We're currently living in the wild west of the music industry..
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