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Ableton Promoting Offensive Music?
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 6:17 pm
by chrisw63
The Kenny Beats article currently promoted via email is more than a bit outside of my musical preference, but that Vince Staples video included just after the start of the article is just plain toxic waste. Why anyone would try to promote their company (Ableton) with such a foul mouthed, misogynistic 'artist' is beyond me. Anyone I'm around that talks about women like that I either run, not walk, away from (and never come back) or, if I think I can get through to them, try to explain how they're promoting degradation of women to impressionable young men - and making young women think it's normal!
Ableton's PR people haven't exactly impressed me over the years, but this is a permanent record
FAIL that will take quite a while, as far as I'm concerned, to make up for.
The Article:
https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kenny-b ... ting-dots/
The video in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTri3zbX-R8
Re: Ableton Promoting Offensive Music?
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 8:19 pm
by pottering
chrisw63 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 6:17 pm
The Kenny Beats article currently promoted via email is more than a bit outside of my musical preference, but that Vince Staples video included just after the start of the article is just plain toxic waste. Why anyone would try to promote their company (Ableton) with such a foul mouthed, misogynistic 'artist' is beyond me. Anyone I'm around that talks about women like that I either run, not walk, away from (and never come back) or, if I think I can get through to them, try to explain how they're promoting degradation of women to impressionable young men - and making young women think it's normal!
Ableton's PR people haven't exactly impressed me over the years, but this is a permanent record
FAIL that will take quite a while, as far as I'm concerned, to make up for.
The Article:
https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kenny-b ... ting-dots/
The video in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTri3zbX-R8
I was unfamiliar with the artist, but just read the lyrics and some articles and interviews about him, he doesn't seem overly misogynistic, that video is pretty low-grade and seems mostly about false friends in general, it is pretty much just the word b**ch in the lyrics.
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/vince-staples/
https://www.vulture.com/2016/09/vince-s ... c-v-r.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dp7njy/ ... rview-2016
Re: Ableton Promoting Offensive Music?
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:29 am
by jestermgee
Welcome to middle age where you realize just how trash modern music and artists are. These kinds of minimal trap artists are just plain awful (IMO) but unfortunately they are the kids spending money on stuff like ableton. Just how it is these days, I’m sure your parents thought the artists you liked were trash too.
Re: Ableton Promoting Offensive Music?
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:58 pm
by slow.robot
I’m lucky in that I’ve always thought most mainstream music is trash. go me, I guess.
