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Michael Genius Users – Genius Power Hour: July 2016

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still going on this!

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Message Behan the Scene – Message

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“Message” resembles a phone call, and carries a deep message towards his family and friends.

In this song, Brandon Carter shares his thoughts with his Aunt, Uncles, and Grandparents and wishes they were here. He griefs the fact they’ll never be able to pick up the phone again. And hates the fact some of his friends don’t do it when they have the ability to. He hopes they all can rejoice in the future, and look back on the past.

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For the first part of the song, I directed it towards my lost loved ones. Who, I call to tell them that I miss them and wish they were here. Then as you proceed through the song, it gets a little bit less tearing when. Now it’s directed towards my friends to tell them, I appreciate them even through our ups and downs and fallout. It means everything to me. And I had to write this song to get a little bit of pain off my chest […]. My life is very different, and hard to handle without the people that made you feel good and happy. It’s really hard to have friends, but have a few that don’t recall you being theirs. Where you feel irrelevant to these people but you keep them in your thoughts.

In the Outro, he reflects on everything he’s ranted or confessed. He overall summarizes every song in the album in order. After all of the chaos, after all of the drama and sob stories. He just sits back and finally calls who he loves. Eventually sending a real message.

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“Message” resembles a phone call, and carries a deep message towards his family and friends.

In this song, Brandon Carter  shares his thoughts with his Aunt, Uncles, and Grandparents and wishes they were here. He griefs the fact they’ll never be able to pick up the phone again. And hates the fact some of his friends don’t do it when they have the ability to. He hopes they all can rejoice in the future, and look back on the past.

He stated that:

>For the first part of the song, I directed it towards my lost loved ones. Who, I call to tell them that I miss them and wish they were here. Then as you proceed through the song, it gets a little bit less tearing when. Now it’s directed towards my friends to tell them, I appreciate them even through our ups and downs and fallout. It means everything to me. And I had to write this song to get a little bit of pain off my chest [...]. My life is very different, and hard to handle without the people that made you feel good and happy. It’s really hard to have friends, but have a few that don’t recall you being theirs. Where you feel irrelevant to these people but you keep them in your thoughts.

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My drugs now got a barcode, now that's called moving things
Sing! DJ Drama (Ft. Meek Mill, Pusha T & Ty Dolla $ign) – Boyz in the Hood

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Pusha has gone from dealing drugs to selling products like music, sneakers, and tours. The album artwork for his 2013 album My Name Is My Name is a barcode.

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...y under its comfortable, choice-eliminating spell. But there’s a question so basic you probably don’t always think to ask it, and it’s this question that keeps Hayward and his colleagues up at night: When you reach to put on music, what are you really looking for? The Playlist Professionals At Apple, Spotify, And Google

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good music

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*g.o.o.d. music

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He frowns at this and wilts into the back of the red couch. Then, with a bad taste in his mouth: “I don’t wanna do that.” The Playlist Professionals At Apple, Spotify, And Google

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was the purpose of this section to highlight how these people are HUMAN and actually get it wrong sometimes? idk, maybe this part of the essay is just bad

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i find it helpful that it’s in here. nice to know that personal taste makes its way into decision-making. what is bad about this? also this is not essay, it’s a direct quote!

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“Well, Drake is doing well up there,” counters Kritzia Padilla, a new music editor, before adding, “But he just crushes it always. It doesn’t even matter what the playlist is.” The Playlist Professionals At Apple, Spotify, And Google

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why is this here

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because the first assessment Hayward makes about why there’s “concerning cluster of rap songs” at the bottom of the spreadsheet is “OK, people don’t like hip-hop.” So Padilla bringing up Drake doing well on the playlist is a counter that assessment.

that said… Drake is pop lmao.

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Sponsored by Beats Radio

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...arez, 35, editorial lead for the Americas and a former editor at MTV and Stereogum, chimes in with a different theory. “I’m not totally convinced people don’t like hip-hop on this station,” she says. “I think it may just be that these are the biggest artists on this playlist, and people don’t get that people blog about big, mainstream artists, too.” The Playlist Professionals At Apple, Spotify, And Google

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isn’t that what all bloggers blog about? big artists?

google kanye west news—they blog about his tweets.

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bloggers blog about about all kinds of artists. but yes, she’s saying what you’re saying. that the playlist consumers don’t necessarily understand (at least from the title) that writers blog about big artists as much as they do emerging or less mainstream artists, which is her assessment for why the playlist title may not be working as well as they’d expected.

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