mattlemay.com
Product and music. Drums and guitar. London and New York. Fashion and food.
https://mattlemay.com
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everything changes but the avant garde en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viennes...
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Definitely my favorite Berman song, maybe my favorite song.
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Have you read Ben Goldacre's "Bad Science"? There's a whole bit in there about the "proprietization of common sense" that I think about all the time w/r/t both the wellness industry *and*, um, "Agile" stuff
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I have a *W* *E* *B* *P* *A* *G* *E* for it and everything www.aquestionoffrequency.com/touring
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Email is great! Matt at mattlemay dot com.
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Oh absolutely!!!
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I love this!!! My first song was "mean mole". 😆
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... along with these
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Thank you! That's the idea. Actually implementing it and chasing down feedback tends to be... less simple, but at least the broad strokes are pretty easy for folks to understand and work with.
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lol same
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Just picking up a goddamn guitar and feeling it resonate when you play an open G chord is more satisfying than like 99% of the techy stuff I do
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I saw Qui when David Yow was performing with them back in 2007. It was certainly a memorable experience!
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at the end of the movie, the two protagonists inevitably wind up in the bed together and Goldie Hawn turns to Kevin Kline and says "it's a smart system" and that's the end of the movie and it was cute.
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... and even then, it seems like the Charli collab didn't exactly turn around H&M's commercial fortunes.
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I'll never forget the manager of my deceased father's storage space explaining to me that I had to pay an "abandonment fee" to leave the unit behind, and then kinda meandering his way to a several-hundred dollar amount through sheer vibes 🤷
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The thing I'm still struggling to make sense of is that 2010 felt so much like "these cool artists have credibility and brands want adjacency to it" and 2025 feels so much like "the engine of creative commerce no longer generates or recognizes credibility as a thing of any value".....
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I guess "commissioned background music as blank canvas for monetized consumer attention units" is the new "chillwave as blank canvas for blog discovery and lifestyle branding deals"?
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surre is
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Like, 15 years ago "branding and curating content is ultimately more impactful than creating new content" felt kinda weird and dirty to write. Now, the business model (and it's always the business model, isn't it?) demands a constant flow of nondescript, fully-owned background content. Hmph.
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oh I sure did! The Friday/360 mashup is i co nic
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also gets me thinking about who gets(?) to be fetishized as an "outsider artists" vs who is ridiculed as a clueless try-hard
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the whole rebecca black redemption arc is fascinating because it (rightly!) reframes "LOL THIS 13 YEAR OLD MADE A TERRIBLE SONG LET'S DUNK ON IT" to "huh, this literal child has a burgeoning interest in creating pop music, I hope they find their own angle and voice some day [continues living life]"
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gosh, this was my very first time in London! Feels like a million years ago (and I look about a million years younger)