Posted on 06/01/2020 11:29:22 AM PDT by Stravinsky
The music industry is planning to turn off the music and hold a day to reflect and implement change in response to the death of George Floyd and the killings of other black people.
Several top record labels organized Black Out Tuesday as violent protests erupted around the world sparked by Floyd’s death as well as the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. Music-based companies Live Nation and TikTok, as well as the Recording Academy, posted to social media that it planned to support and stand with the black community.
“On Tuesday June 2nd, Columbia Records will observe ‘Black Out Tuesday,’” the Sony label home to Beyoncé, Bob Dylan, Adele and John Legend said in a statement. “This is not a day off. Instead, this is a day to reflect and figure out ways to move forward in solidarity.”
“We continue to stand with the Black community, our staff, artists, and peers in the music industry,” the company continued. “Perhaps with the music off, we can truly listen.”
Others that have joined Black Out Tuesday include the Sony imprints RCA Records and Epic Records; the Universal Music Group divisions Republic Records, Def Jam, UMG Nashville, Capitol Records and Island Records; and the Warner Music Group imprints Atlantic and Warner Records. Smaller, independent labels as well as music publishing companies and management firms have also signed on.
UMG’s Interscope Geffen A&M said that in addition to joining Black Out Tuesday, the label home to Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar would not release music this week — the first label to do so.
“Instead, IGA will contribute to organizations that help to bail out protesters exercising their right to peacefully assemble, aid lawyers working for systemic change and provide assistance to charities focused on creating economic empowerment in the Black community,”
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Gee...won’t miss them
I'm going to have my stereo cranking.
How about never coming back?
Adorable.
They think BitTorrent isnt a thing
The music industry is planning to turn off the music
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Boy, that’s really gonna hurt.
SNORT.
Idiots.
I can think of no more than a half dozen songs released since 1990 that are worth *anything* to me.I’ve spent a *lot* of $$$ on music during my life but no more than $10 of it has been since ‘90.
But, but, I’m going to miss the great HD audio performances they have been doing over zoom.
Will they have you arrested of you choose to listen to Music on Tuesday?
Won’t even notice
Will it be followed by "White Out Wednesday?"
That’s another 23 artists blocked in Spotify. About half I would never hear in a playlist, but they won’t get any play time from me in a top hits playlist like so often happens.
All they need is 20 seconds of play time to get paid.
Great feature Spotify.
Years ago there was talk of “Stick Whitey” days when blacks wouldn’t come to work; the idea never took off because it just would have sped up the replacement of them in the workplace.
Meanwhile, I'll be cranking this on whatever computer I'm using. Between the Woo Woo, the noises my house - in need of a roof frame repair - is making in the evenings*, and the insurrection, on a scale of 1 to 10, my anxiety level is cranked to a 15!
*I doubt that a collapse of my house is imminent. I have a repairman coming over on Saturday. The noises are probably more from the house cooling down in the evenings. Last night apparently had a big temperature drop, and more noises than usual. Arrrrgh!
DANG!
If they were serious instead of making a cheap, useless, painless statement, why not one MONTH? ...or one YEAR?
Blacks will still be complaining about racial inequality two hundred years from now because they’re the only ethnic group in America that still refuses to admit most of their problems start with themselves!
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