Oh lol -- so that Blue Hawaii post, and our Ciara video post today, both got a lot of random social traffic from Russia via Yandex. (This happened a few weeks ago w/ an Arca video.) I see Ciara post in our traffic report as "Сиара Делится Ярким Видео...'Rooted'" for example.
Very weird but I am too busy too investigate. Thank you Russian reader (?) who is linking to our video posts.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.eremedia.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/09/04131314/sausage-700x467.jpg
A week of comments about cancel culture, “WAP,” and Mark Kozelek was not going to unfold without some downvotes!
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New commenting system this fall will have better moderation tools.
Also did you guys know Pino Palladino played bass on “Watermelon Sugar”?
Have a nice weekend!
Fun fact: DIIV actually recorded a cover for the comp! But Cole really needs to get together IRL w/ their producer to be satisfied with the audio, and ultimately that wasn't possible by deadline. You will hear it eventually, and it *may* be what they're playing for our Zoom Party but I'm not sure.
When I was a kid my dad was going to Record World to buy my sister a 7” of Ashford & Simpson‘s “Solid.” So I said I wanted a record too — “Jump.” But he got me Pointer Sisters’ “Jump.” Great song, but not what I wanted! 😔
Also “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” is a 10.
These are intentionally simple (classic?) to appeal to the most people w/ the smallest inventory — when we have a merch store down the line there will be lots of things that aren’t logos on solid colors promise
Thanks dadguitar and everyone!
I forgot to mention... I've been talking to Billboard about how many copies we'd need to sell to crack the Top Album Sales chart on release week. It may be possible! Eat your heart out Trapt.
Almost did a 'Gum mug but they were surprisingly expensive to customize and also shipping would be much more than t-shirts, so maybe in the future.
Wish someone on our comp covered this late, great Cardigans song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huobAY7gl30
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