Culture
Major Key Takeaways What is the current state of AI music policy across streaming platforms?Spotify focuses on blocking unauthorized AI voice clones, impersonation, and “ghost artist” fraud, but does not require AI disclosure labels and permits fully AI-generated music that doesn’t violate fraud or impersonation rules. Apple Music favors human-made curation editorially and works with distributors on disclosure metadata. YouTube has gone furthest, mandating disclosure for “synthetic or significantly altered”…
A marketing company just admitted to manufacturing virality for major artists. What does it mean for fans, and for the artists who refuse to play along?At her computer somewhere in Stockholm, a teenager discovers a band. She hadn't been looking. A video popped up on her For You Page, another user raving about this new artist in that raw, unfiltered way that feels authentic precisely because it doesn't feel performed.…
Why are physical music formats sales (vinyl, CDs and cassette tapes) increasing, who is buying, and why and how to invest in the physical?
I'm speed racer and I drive real fastHe's speed racer and he drives real fastI drive real fast, I'm gonna lastI'm a big pirate and I like to stealHe's a big pirate and he likes to stealI like to steal and I like to kill(Speed Racer - Devo)Slaves to Speed and Generative AI Tools We are being sold speed. In our consumerist society by and large, and specifically across the landscape…
Art has always been under the influence by Artifice, in all senses of the word: as craftsmanship, as chicanery, and as sleight of hand. We’ve had the Monkees (authenticity under question as a «manufactured» band), Milli Vanilli (not actually singing on their hits), the whole boyband era and holograms, but we’re now seeing the first completely virtual/artificial artist, the Artificial Intelligence «artist» who is bringing a whole new level and…
We are in the midst of a war over content. In my days as an SEO specialist, «Content is King» was the pre-eminent axiom. This due to the fact that content really drove the whole search-engine eco-system, and that volume and quality of content were deciding factors in success with Search Engine Optimization. As Social Media and the whole influencer economy exploded, a new dimension, and complexity, emerged regarding content. «Content…
Discovery Engine And Trends I have a confession to make, when I realized that rock stardom wasn’t in the stars for me, I took a «day job» as a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specialist. Most of my working hours were spent trying to understand the workings of search-engine algorithms, what criteria bring a website to «the top» of the search results.Another «thing» that I’ve worked with quite a bit in my…
The music industry is at a crossroads, and as in the legend of bluesman Robert Johnson, the deal is to sell or not to sell one’s «soul».The unsurprising «Devil» in our story is Artificial Intelligence. The music industry is, and will be, one of the industries that will be most impacted by AI, and by Generative AI, in particular. This is certain not the only form of AI that will…
Parental Advisory; this post may contain academic content!To try and understand the changes that affect artists in the music industry, I’ll try and see the streaming era in the context of one particular concept, deterritorialization.The French, not post-rock but post-structuralist, duo Deleuze and Guattari define deterritorialization as the movement by which something escapes or departs from a given territory. Inspired by Marx, Capitalism's relentless drive to expand and disrupt existing social…
notefornote
Connecting audio with audiences
+47 40034788
©Copyright 2025. notefornote
Culture Archives - notefornote