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Social media offers a never-ending stream of content, but to get it, you have to put up with a lot of manipulation. Influencers entice you with clickbait, notifications hijack your attention, and algorithms tune your experience to keep you glued to your phone. The internet can be a hostile place, but recently, I found a thriving little community that feels different. It’s called Blast Radio, and it’s the most creatively refreshing thing I’ve seen online in years.Does Charlie Have a Kryptonite to Her Power?Blast Radio is a…

Image: Frazer Harrison/Gareth Cattermole/Victor Boyko (Getty Images)Artificial intelligence and the music industry are having a moment, and it’s unclear at this point whether it’sa great one. As AI generators like ChatGPT and DALL-E get better and better, so too do AI voice generators—and that’s no better exemplified than the rise of completely fabricated songs from major artists. An AI-generated song from Drake and The Weeknd called “Heart on My Sleeve” went viral earlier this month before being pulled from streaming…

Gen Z acts like Conan Gray, Olivia Rodrigo, and Billie Eilish stack up against legacy acts like Fleetwood Mac and Red Hot Chili Peppers on the Spotify Billions Club this year.Graphic: Lori PedrickSpotify is one of the premiere music services of the 21st century, and modern music consumption favors streaming over nearly all formats. In 2021, Spotify unveiled the Billions Club, which consists of every song that has accrued at least one billion streams on the platform since their respective date of upload. So far, the…

Data shows that beginning influencers who are women and people of color are making 20% to 21% less on average than white men.Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock)There is a wide discrepancy between how small time and up-and-coming content creators on social media are being paid just as more folks are hoping to generate some new income by monetizing their content on social media.According to new insights released by Adobe based on their Future of Creativity study from earlier this year, 53% of U.S. “non-professional” creators are…

Nicki Minaj took to Instagram to share that the music video for her song “Likkle Miss Remix” featuring dancehall artist Skeng has been age-restricted on YouTube. While that would definitely upset most artists, Minaj claims that the age-restriction is a plot to prevent her from raking in views.Nicki Minaj is not one to shy away from sexually explicit lyrics and representations of sensuality in her music and visuals. But shortly after the release of the music video for her song “Likkle Miss Remix,” Minaj found that the…

Earlier Wednesday, Facebook endured the digital equivalent of what happens when you drink one too many and your body says: “No, ma’am.” It filled users’ news feeds across the globe with very weird posts that random people had sent to celebrities like Eminem, Taylor Swift, and Nicki Minaj—stuff that wouldn’t turn up on the app’s front page if Facebook were operating normally. Users baffled by Facebook’s digital vomit went over to Twitter to discuss, vent, and laugh their butts off at the truly outrageous comments and…

The rapper posted an explanation on his Instagram stories Drake/ Pic-Twitter Canadian rapper and songwriter Drake cancelled his Young Money reunion show, the last instalment of his three-day event dubbed 'October World Weekend', after testing positive for Covid-19.According to Variety, the rapper posted an explanation on his Instagram stories, revealing that he has tested positive for COVID.He confirmed the reunion, which…