All 12 LOONA members have won their cases for contract termination with BlockBerry Creative. pic.twitter.com/P85LA2UdS0

— Pop Base (@PopBase) June 16, 2023

!nonchuds and !chuds you will love this

Here is the first Glastonbury Festival 2024 line-up poster. Many more acts and attractions still to be announced.

Tickets for this year's Festival are sold out, but our prize draw for 20 pairs is raising emergency funds to support people affected by conflict, at… pic.twitter.com/1NhUYmghuE

— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) March 14, 2024

!chasers !cuteandinvalid

Which one was it for you?

also superior choir version without kino music vid

Nobody likes you when you're 23.

Meet the disgraced "digital-age Beethoven" Mamoru Samuragochi who bullshited his entire 18 year music career.

Born in Hiroshima, Samuragochi claimed that he started playing the piano at the tender age of 4, but in high school he started to get severe migraines and by age 35 he was completely deaf. I like to think he blamed nuke radiation for his deafness. After graduating from high school he didn't go to music school because he didn't like modern music so he instead taught himself how to compose.

In March of 2013 a TV documentary was made about Samuragochi called "Melody of the Soul: The Composer Who Lost His Hearing" that was broadcasted on the Jap version of PBS. The documentary followed him as he met survivors of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan.

Samuragochi-sama, please soothe the suffering of these survivors by playing the piano!

Later in June of 2013 a reporter from the Area magazine went to Samuragochi's apartment to interview him and noticed that he might not be telling the truth about being deaf, such as answering the reporter's questions before the sign-language interpreter had finished, and getting up to answer the doorbell. But the interview wasn't published by the magazine due to them not wanting to slander the guy or something.

When Samuragochi's first symphony was performed on tour by a full orchestra, the composer Takeo Noguchi noticed that it was an adaptation of little-known works from earlier composers like Gustav Mahler, and doubted Samuragochi's story, which was sourced entirely to his record label. Noguchi's article was turned down by musical publications, as Samuragochi's record label was one of their advertising sponsors, and instead was published in the November 2013 issue of the newsweekly Shincho 45, as "The deaf genius composer" - Is Mamoru Samuragochi genuine?

Then the bombshell dropped: Samuragochi's ghostwriter came forward.

ENTER: Takashi Niigaki

On 5 February 2014, it was publicly revealed that music attributed to Samuragochi since 1996 had actually been ghostwritten by Takashi Niigaki, a musician, composer, and part-time lecturer at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo. Niigaki also said Samuragochi was not deaf and states that Samuragochi has normal hearing and was posing as a deaf man to generate a mystique around his image as a composer. Niigaki also said that Samuragochi did not need to use his cane , and that most of his biography printed in album liner notes was fiction. Niigaki went to the press because one of Samuragochi's "compositions" would be used by Japanese figure skater Daisuke Takahashi, at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. On 12 February 2014, Samuragochi released a handwritten statement in which he revealed that he had a Grade 2 physical disability certificate after losing his hearing and to have partially regained his hearing three years previously. He also added that he was "deeply ashamed of living a lie."

Following the revelation, the city of Hiroshima announced that it would be revoking the Hiroshima Citizens' Award it presented to Samuragochi in 2008. On 7 March 2014, he gave a press conference in Tokyo, appearing in public for the first time since the ghostwriting allegations arose. He admitted that while his hearing was impaired, it did not meet the legal requirements for deafness, and that he had returned his disability certificate.

Here's a New Yorker write up about all of this.

Well I know what you're thinking;

>these guys got away with it for 18 years so the music was atleast good, right?

So let's do a little a comparison using the reason why I and every other Westerner even know who these guys are: The Resident Evil Director's Cut soundtrack.

Here's the Mansion Basement theme from the original game that would later be replaced in the Director's Cut:

And here's Samuragochi/Niigaki's track from the Director's Cut:

Bonus: Kenji Yamamoto

Completely unrelated to Samuragochi or Niigaki, but when else am I going to get a chance to talk about disgraced Jap composers: Meet Kenji Yamamoto, he's best known for composing the soundtracks for the popular Dragon Ball Z Budokai games. But all of his music would be pulled from the games forever after he was accused of plagiarism. Now, how bad could it be you might ask? Surely it wasn't too bad or blatant, maybe he just made some riffs that sound familiar or at worst stole some riffs from a small band that's only known locally in Japan?

Here's a playlist with more comparisons. But for real if you ever decide to play the Budokai games hunt down the original release versions, Kenji has some good taste in music.

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— Elliott Wilson (@ElliottWilson) February 14, 2024

Artist is SexyRed aka the face of stds:

Even black folks hate it lol:

Drake truly will do anything for clout:

It is one of Queen's best-loved songs but Fat Bottomed Girls has been mysteriously dropped from the group's new Greatest Hits collection.

The 1978 track, which was written by guitarist Brian May, has been enjoyed by generations of fans as a humorous and hard-rocking tribute to a young man's appreciation of fuller-figured ladies.

But 45 years later, it appears that lyrics such as 'left alone with big fat Fanny, she was such a naughty nanny, big woman, you made a bad boy out of me' and 'fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go round' have been hit by the woke cancel culture.

It was such a popular hit for Queen that it appeared fourth on the band's original 1981 greatest hits album along with Bohemian Rhapsody, Don't Stop Me Now and We Will Rock You.

But last week it was nowhere to be seen when Universal Records announced they would be releasing a version of the record on Yoto, the new audio platform aimed at young people.

The move has left music industry insiders bemused, with bosses insisting that Fat Bottomed Girls has wrongly been singled out as it is 'merely a bit of fun'.

One told The Mail on Sunday: 'It is the talk of the music industry, nobody can work out why such a good-natured, fun song can't be acceptable in today's society.

'It is woke gone mad. Why not appreciate people of all shapes and sizes like society is saying we should, rather than get rid of it.

It's outrageous.' Fat Bottomed Girls has long sparked debate about the suitability of its lyrics, and the promotional material that accompanied the release.

The original sleeve for the song, which was taken from Queen's album Jazz, featured a scantily clad female riding a bicycle but was altered after some stores refused to stock it.

The new version was the same image with knickers drawn over the woman.

May told Mojo magazine in 2008: 'I wrote it with Fred in mind, as you do, especially if you've got a great singer who likes fat bottomed girls... or boys.'

The newly released Yoto greatest hits album, released in collaboration with Queen's record label Universal, is aimed at introducing the band to a younger audience.

Factcheck: This claim has been classified as misogynistic.

@MarseyIsMyWaifu discuss

back to playing the field, neighbors

Study from College Rover finds that Taylor Swift is the most listened to artist amongst students with high GPAs (3.5-4.0). pic.twitter.com/pFYt7ITuuR

— Pop Base (@PopBase) July 25, 2023

hadn’t used the site in years, just wanted to see if i could find some cool new music on there like i used to man

Here's Albini recounting buying child pornography while in Hamburg:

Jaded as I am, I can't help but flip seeing a girl and guy of twelve or thirteen, tops, ramming Martel bottles up each other's asses. These are not the Dutch equivalent of abused trailer-park kids, either. They look to be in excellent health and seem to be honestly enjoying this. Makes all the conventional arguments against this kind of thing seem really silly.

They're kids. Kids like to play with their own and other people's privates. They're just being photographed at it. Now, people who get a voyeuristic charge out of watching them, like me, I guess, well, we've got some grip-on-reality problems. There's maybe 1% of all pornography that has any effect on me, and it's definitely not a turn-on very often. But when it is, and it's as weird as this, it's pretty hard to take.

And here's him promoting his friend, Peter Sotos', chld pronography magazine:

The cover of PURE 2 is a guy holding open a toddler's puny hole so his spuzz can dribble out. The girl is past crying. She is destroyed. [...] Like I said, I like that sort of thing

Sotos later defended his use of child pornography in cout, stating "child abuse is a sublime pleasure"

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/12/06/100000-bond-in-child-pornography-case/

Albini also produced an album for Sotos called Buyer's Market, which Wikipedia describes as "sound collages of spoken word samples from parents, law-enforcement officers and victims of s*x crimes and pedophilia". When asked about his relationship with Sotos in a reddit AMA, this is what he had to say:

Peter's an old friend. I've known him for 30 years or so. I'll help him do whatever he wants to do, from wash his car to edit his album.

The Taliban has released a song confirming the war between Afghanistan and Iran.

From the song's lyrics they are telling Ibrahim Raisi :"We are ready to liberate Tehran ,We are ready to Reform Tehran (Iranian Government)...Our Mujahideen are ready for a big bloody Revolution." pic.twitter.com/BoSyyqW28l

— Mahd (@MAHD_15_oct) May 27, 2023

:marseybleedingears: