Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community
Alternative Nation : The Fediverse's largest alternative and indie music community! All things alternative music, from 80s college rock to today's indie and all the amazing alternative music in between. Welcome home, music nerds!
Some of y'all may remember MTV's Alternative Nation or 120 Minutes, awesome programs & incredible ways to discover #music back in the 80s & 90s...
Welcome, to the Fediverse edition!
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Share youtube, songwhip, spotify, bandcamp links, music memes, album art, articles, whatever! But avoid links to directly download music (don't want to get Lemmy.world in trouble). Songwhip links always appreciated!
See this post on recs on how to post!
The Golden Rule: Music taste is subjective so don't be a gatekeeping asshole. There's no "bad music", only music you like or don't like.
We Are A Community: So no racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or spam.
🎵 Let's get lost in the Fediverse's record store together! 🎶
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What do you expect from a woman who claims to empower girls, while making them work in her sweatshops, while she's off doing private concerts for amoral Saudi princes.
I'm not one to hate on pop stars but her image always perplexed me. She's clearly an awful human being but somehow avoids being canceled because she's pretending to empower minorities.
Outside of BLM, her image since she went independent has always been to be strategically silent on a lot. She doesn't tweet or even try to communicate her views on the world.
Interviews from when she was in Destiny's Child show she had the education of someone you would expect who spent their teen years working on their singing career instead of focusing on high school or going to college.
She is a symbol because she can be a symbol. Her PR team seem to operate the same way the British Royal Family does; don't comment on controversy and heavily control press events.
And it works.
@HobbitFoot I saw some video last week talking about how Jay-Z was one of the faces of Black Conservatism and I’d never really considered it. Their marriage always seemed more like a corporate merger to consolidate power and branding potential. So it wouldn’t shock me if she’s a very careful curated personality to maximize profits than anything.
If you read into their early history, you can almost make the argument that Jay-Z groomed Beyonce to be his wife/talent. And it worked.
Jay-Z's biggest talent is knowing who to collaborate with to make commercially successful music, and he obviously shared that gift with his wife to keep her career going long after her type of music was commercially viable. So if Beyonce divorced Jay-Z the husband, she is also divorcing Jay-Z the manager.