This was great. After a loooong social media break I got back on last year to start sharing about some music and other creative projects. It's been a battle. It often seems like everyone one on a platform kind of hates being there. But at the same time, the possibilities of making new connections are so rich. Anyways, I'm really glad to have a new role model. Thanks for sharing!
Close, but several cigars short. Yes, do it for connection, not marketing, but ultimately, it’s a wink-wink game because he’s simply marketing under a different guise (“connections”), and then blaming artists for being luddites with huge generalisations about what the artistic process entails.
Not really, not anymore, though many folks believe they are doing just that. The thing is, all social media interaction is, at its core, performative and thus unauthentic. Yes, we have social personas in real life, but online, one often never knew who they were actually interacting with, now with AI bots, that's a fait accompli. I left all social media last year, and not only is life more fulfilling as a result, my so-called music career has profited not only spiritually and emotionally, but, dig this, economically as well! (full disclosure - I am still using Bandcamp and Substack, though both of these entities drooling over how the social media aspect could improve their bottom line has me concerned).
on the one hand, derrick gee has great music taste and a great community, really knows his shit, and meant a lot to me for a while as an up and coming music curator. on the other hand, i'll never be able to forget how he talked about how he wants to see more women in music criticism, then went on to say how men like to "put things in lists and put things on shelves" while women "celebrate the intangible and the decorative."
when dozens of women commented (or stitched his video) saying that 1) there are fewer women critics because men bully them out of it and 2) it's not a good take to reduce women's contributions essentially to "girls like pretty things", he ignored all of it. kinda sucks.
Oh hey Gabbie - love your channel! That's super interesting. I'm curious as to whether you heard the podcast where that was taken from? Aproximately 35:45min into the "Music Criticism is Broken" podcast - where I identify my own shortcomings of having my own blindspots when it comes to music appreciation. Also - I said "there is very little celebration of the intangible, of the decorative, of the emotional [within male music reviews]". The decorative comment was in reference to the line before where I realised my own lack of vision and needed help to see beyond my binary logic.
And yeah - the bullying is a crucial viewpoint that I wasn't as aware of at the time of publishing but it did spark a healthy discussion and I did reply to many comments at the time, and have become friends with and supporters of many content creators since, where we share notes daily.
I want to take this comment seriously as it's a serious accusation that I don't feel represents the viewpoints I made more than two years ago now. I'm far from a controversy-driven content creator, and in this case perhaps my point didn't land how I intended it to - as I'd imagine we all experience from time to time. Hope I'm given a second chance or some grace for this but at the end of the day, I can't get it right every time.
When is Derrick getting a Substack … ???
Great question!
he has one but hasn't posted since 2023 https://derrickgee.substack.com/
This is great Declan 👌🏻👌🏻 love Derrick so this is really cool to read
Thank you! Derrick is the king 👑
This was great. After a loooong social media break I got back on last year to start sharing about some music and other creative projects. It's been a battle. It often seems like everyone one on a platform kind of hates being there. But at the same time, the possibilities of making new connections are so rich. Anyways, I'm really glad to have a new role model. Thanks for sharing!
Close, but several cigars short. Yes, do it for connection, not marketing, but ultimately, it’s a wink-wink game because he’s simply marketing under a different guise (“connections”), and then blaming artists for being luddites with huge generalisations about what the artistic process entails.
Do you think it’s possible to post on social media and it not be considered marketing at least to some extent?
Not really, not anymore, though many folks believe they are doing just that. The thing is, all social media interaction is, at its core, performative and thus unauthentic. Yes, we have social personas in real life, but online, one often never knew who they were actually interacting with, now with AI bots, that's a fait accompli. I left all social media last year, and not only is life more fulfilling as a result, my so-called music career has profited not only spiritually and emotionally, but, dig this, economically as well! (full disclosure - I am still using Bandcamp and Substack, though both of these entities drooling over how the social media aspect could improve their bottom line has me concerned).
Comments are also performative to by this measure no? I fear your cynicism only applies to your preferences, as Substack isn’t any different.
Yes, comments as well.
I’m not cynical, I’m Lach.
I see the difference twixt paid subscribers to my Substack publication and Meta, though Substack’s Notes suffer from the same disease.
I was familiar with Derrick from his headphone ratings series on TikTok, had no idea the guy had chops like this. Can’t wait to find out more.
Good read! 💯
on the one hand, derrick gee has great music taste and a great community, really knows his shit, and meant a lot to me for a while as an up and coming music curator. on the other hand, i'll never be able to forget how he talked about how he wants to see more women in music criticism, then went on to say how men like to "put things in lists and put things on shelves" while women "celebrate the intangible and the decorative."
when dozens of women commented (or stitched his video) saying that 1) there are fewer women critics because men bully them out of it and 2) it's not a good take to reduce women's contributions essentially to "girls like pretty things", he ignored all of it. kinda sucks.
Oh hey Gabbie - love your channel! That's super interesting. I'm curious as to whether you heard the podcast where that was taken from? Aproximately 35:45min into the "Music Criticism is Broken" podcast - where I identify my own shortcomings of having my own blindspots when it comes to music appreciation. Also - I said "there is very little celebration of the intangible, of the decorative, of the emotional [within male music reviews]". The decorative comment was in reference to the line before where I realised my own lack of vision and needed help to see beyond my binary logic.
And yeah - the bullying is a crucial viewpoint that I wasn't as aware of at the time of publishing but it did spark a healthy discussion and I did reply to many comments at the time, and have become friends with and supporters of many content creators since, where we share notes daily.
I want to take this comment seriously as it's a serious accusation that I don't feel represents the viewpoints I made more than two years ago now. I'm far from a controversy-driven content creator, and in this case perhaps my point didn't land how I intended it to - as I'd imagine we all experience from time to time. Hope I'm given a second chance or some grace for this but at the end of the day, I can't get it right every time.