wanna see how a nytimes journalist fucked over the flashbulb (and a shit load of other artists)

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  • flat chest choof
    FFR Player
    • Mar 2021
    • 47

    #1

    wanna see how a nytimes journalist fucked over the flashbulb (and a shit load of other artists)



    pretty fucked up!
    A musician’s claim that Outlaw Ocean author Ian Urbina misled over 400 artists about their contributions to a journalism-adjacent music project ignited a social media firestorm. “I apologize unequivocally,” Urbina responded.


    here's the bandcamp too, check out some of the artists featured here. I don't personally recognize most of them, presumably because they were pretty obscure to begin with and got like no promotion from this project (or the music they create is not on my stylistic radar). but the names I do recognize are pretty lol. music "inspired" by noam chomsky too lmao.

    Last edited by flat chest choof; 12-9-2021, 07:20 AM.
  • radioamor
    anhedonia extraordinaire
    • Jun 2020
    • 154

    #2
    Re: wanna see how a nytimes journalist fucked over the flashbulb (and a shit load of other artists)

    "Urbina told Pitchfork that he used his New York Times work email address to contact artists after he no longer worked there both out of habit and because it was less likely to go to musicians’ spam boxes. He argued that he’s always been clear that the project is unaffiliated with The Times."
    From the email:
    "My name is Ian Urbina and I work for the New York Times." Later in the email, he provides a link to the New York Times to further elaborate on the project's nature. This is absolutely reprehensible stuff right here.
    This makes me feel especially crestfallen since Machinefabriek and Benoît Pioulard are among my favorite musicians, and to see that they got screwed out of well-earned royalties because some hack dullard with the framework of a hackneyed idea decided to be a greedy fuck is dismaying.
    Also, the absolute audacity to attach yourself as a co-artist on every single track is beyond appalling. I cannot fathom the kind of ego necessary to credit yourself as an artist on what is demonstrably the majority of another musician's work. The fact that he also blamed the musicians for not using the fucking Wayback Machine to do their homework on this guy is indicative of some seriously robust delusion.

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    • katanaeyegaming
      #FearTheWyvern
      • Aug 2019
      • 344

      #3
      Re: wanna see how a nytimes journalist fucked over the flashbulb (and a shit load of other artists)

      I'm just going to go turn my foot out the door on this one before I go on a long winded rant on just how fucked this is.
      It is known that wherever you may go we will follow you
      #Fearthewyvern

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      • rushyrulz
        Digital Dancing!
        FFR Simfile Author
        FFR Music Producer
        • Feb 2006
        • 12985

        #4
        Re: wanna see how a nytimes journalist fucked over the flashbulb (and a shit load of other artists)

        I didn't know my crush had a youtube channel...


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