Superstar Slump: Why 2025's Biggest Albums Disappointed

In 2025, the music industry has witnessed a significant trend where albums from top-tier artists like Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne, and Lady Gaga met with surprisingly mixed results, revealing a growing disconnect between celebrity status and guaranteed success. 
While Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl shattered sales records, it faced harsh critical reviews for its perceived rushed quality. 
Conversely, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter VI suffered a dramatic decline in streaming numbers compared to his previous work, and was panned for poor production. This pattern of underperformance extended to Doja Cat, Cardi B, and Miley Cyrus, who faced issues ranging from low commercial debuts to an inability to launch new, impactful hit singles. 
This wave of releases highlights a shifting landscape where star power alone is no longer enough to overcome streaming fatigue, quality control issues, and a perceived lack of artistic innovation.
 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Podcasting since two thousand and five. This is the King
of Podcasts Radio Network, King of Podcasts dot com.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's safe to say the music industry in twenty twenty
five has been lackluster, and that's an understatement.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
The King of Podcasts Radio Network proudly presents to the
Broadcasters Podcast. Here is the King of Podcasts.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
This is episode of four hundred and seven of the
Broadcasters Podcast. Welcome. I am King of Podcasts, and I
welcome you to the program. All set up to go
and pick to you tonight, talk to you tonight about
music and the music industry right now, which is in
such a rough shape this year. You know, the charts
have already been very stagnant this year. We know that.

(00:49):
I mean right now to the last what nine weeks,
eight weeks now, K Pop demon Hunter still rules a
lot of the Billboard Hot one hundred charts for the
number songs that are there, and of course across the
world Golden right now eight weeks and number one as
we are recording tonight. That's gonna change next week because
Taylor Swift's Life of a show Girl has already been

(01:10):
released and three point five million unions so far have
been sold, So you know, the following that she has
out there is obviously all into this, but there's a
couple of things that show that this particular run is
not as massive as it was last year. With the

(01:32):
Torture Podes Department. We don't have that this year, and
the effort that's out there, the feelings of disanticipation for
this album are much different this year for Taylor Swift,
because I mean, does anybody want to hear Taylor Swift
do an album that's positive and uplifting. Where now she's

(01:54):
with Travis Kelsey, now she's engaged to be married, and
now she's probably looking after this album to go ahead
and settle down and have children. When you have an
artist like her that has been putting out music, it's
always been kind of a bit somber and solemn, and you know,
it's always about breakups and all. And we've heard about
the career that she had. Listen all happy for her
happiness right now, but that doesn't necessarily resonate to music

(02:18):
because a lot of good music is always about heartache
and love gone wrong and things like that. So to
turn that around you kind of expect that no matter
how much fandom that she has. It's not going to
overcome the fact that it came in so quickly. And
now we're at this point where it's fine, Okay, they

(02:44):
got the sales, but now we're seeing some signs that
this project did not do so well, mixed reviews and
a couple of telling signs that are going on right now.
Here's one of the things when it comes to Tall
Swift's movie. The official release party of a Showgirl that

(03:04):
happened this past weekend thirty four million dollars for the
box office domestically, fifty million total worldwide as of this recording,
which is great. Bles us up with the first week
of what she did for the aerostour. The concert that
first weekend got ninety three million dollars total gross, fifty

(03:27):
percent of its gross it made, and by the end
of it it would grows two hundred and sixty one
million dollars. It's not gonna do that now, So you
already had that first week and a third of the audience.
By the way, I don't know if there was a
lot of movies that were going on that were opening
up that weekend going up against the Aras tour. I'm
trying to remember what there was. So that weekend October thirteenth,

(03:51):
twenty twenty three, when the Aerostur first came out in
the theaters, Taylor Swift blew away. You had The Exorcist, Believer,
Paul Patroled, the Mighty Movie Saw X Haunting in Venice,
which was a movie I was watching that weekend, the
None Too Equalizer three. Like, there was a lot of
movies and a lot of horror movies were out there,
and Taylor Swifts all of a sudden just swept up

(04:14):
and took all the way, changed all over the way,
and blew everybody else out of the water. This time around.
You know, it's still a stagnant movie box office. We
know that. But no matter what, the fact that this
movie only pulled thirty four million is a little bit
lacking for the most part, because you're going home against

(04:38):
one battle after another, which wasn't gonna make that much
right now in the box officer currently. And then you
had The Spashing Machine, Gabby Stallhouse and the movies like
that and I was It and Demon Slayer Kmetsu no
Yaba right what all else? There's not much else going on,
And as a result of the movie theaters there's an

(05:00):
interesting story that just came out today that the movie
will stop as overseas rule out in theaters new international markets.
Excuse me, We're going to release the movie later this month,
and that has been pulled. It was expected to go

(05:21):
and open up in Canada, Mexico, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland,
South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. But now that's the
longer happening. It's gonna be health. It was gonna be
released in over one hundred additional countries outside of the
United States. So October third, the movie came out. There's
gonna be some word about more dates and more advanced

(05:42):
ticket sales to be announced. Never came about studio distributors.
We have local offices around the world say that the
decision mainly impacts Latin America and parts of Asia. So
Grow did play in Mexico and was strongly performing. Also
was in Uruguay, and there were a couple of things
that were going on with the movie that kind of
they're making reasons as to why the movie was going

(06:03):
to be pulled. Subtitles that were apparently played in English only,
and the fact that certain territories wanted time to review
the film for the ratings and reship rules, and team
Swift wanted to move on. Swift exercises extra extraordinary control
when it comes to business positions and also any studio

(06:25):
that would be willing to work with her. So AMC
was working with her on that. And it did record
making business in the domestic box office. It did fine.
It beat especially machine and one bet after another, no
problem with that. Now, it was not a concert pick,
nor was it a documentary. Again, you're just seeing a

(06:46):
couple of things were going to be featured as part
of the movie and that was it. That was gonna
be the plan for it. In the movie. For the
official release party, the plan was to have the exclusive
world premiere of the Fate of affiliate video behind the
scenes footage from the music video shoot brand New a
lyric videos Taylor has never before seen personal reflections on
songs from the new studio album, her twelfth by the way,

(07:09):
And that was it. So it wasn't like there was
gonna be a whole lot extra to go to. So
I can see where some people might have skipped this,
But for Taylor Swift fans just to get together to
go and sing along. I was surprised that didn't get
more of a crowd to show up, even if she
wasn't gonna be singing herself. And by the way, the
fate of affiliate video she directed herself. Ninety percent of

(07:31):
the audience were females, Seventy four percent of ticket buyers
were under age thirty four largest quant was between eighteen
and twenty four years old. But what's interesting is that
there's kind of a push to go ahead and quickly
pulled this away from theaters, not keep it out there
if it's still making money, because what else is making
money in the movie theaters right now anyway? Not much,

(07:52):
And so the decision, okay, let's just go and pull
this out. Plus then there's the issues that we're being
talking about when it came to the music that they
get got put out, So let's go through that part.
She did set a new modern era record for first
week sales in the US, passing Adele and three point
five million equivalent album units in his debut week, but

(08:15):
critics were pounsing on the project. It has been given
a mixed to negative review to a lot of reviews
out there. Major outlets range from glowing the scathing, some
calling the effort lazy and noting quote it was nowhere
near as good as it should be given the reputation
and the legacy of Taylor Swift and the music she's

(08:37):
put out there before that has been a lot better obviously,
and the turnaround time from her twenty twenty four tortured
pods department. I mean, it's one thing for having her
tailor's version of albums like Red or nineteen eighty nine
coming back out. That's one thing that had those coming
back out once again. But this is new music now
back to back and it is a bit overkilled. Plus

(09:05):
the exposure in the NFL and all that still gets
to be a little bit too much. But for her,
this is not a loss for her. It's just you
could tell that the music industry has struggled this year.
But there's been a lot of struggles this year, and
there's probably been some albums you proba't even know that
came out, that came and went because if you look

(09:25):
at some of the names of artists, major music label artists,
of course they don't want to go ahead and work
on building and developing new artists these days. They're not
even trying anymore. So many independent artists out there doing
their own thing, and they just hope they can hit
somebody that will hit lightning in a bottle and somehow
somebody's going to go and find out about it, which
is exactly how somebody. These artists are coming out in

(09:47):
the first place. Now charty today, I mean, or they're
coming from somewhere else. There's a reason where Alex Warren
or Olivia Dean from Britain or just coming where the
British audience is able to go into track Alex Ward.
Is he British? No, He's American, right, but his music
that really hit like it did in Britain and in
Europe for whatever reason, because carry Me Home was the

(10:10):
first thing I remember singing for him, and then Ordinary
and that became the wedding song, and everybody just blew
that up all the summer long. And now he's got
Eternity as a new single, and now he has an
album out there, and I got great for him. Olivia
Deane just put on a new album. It's great. She's
got a lot of great songs on there. The singles.
Of course, I'm always gonna be positioned to because I'm

(10:32):
always that kind of person. I'm not the person that
goes always into album cuts. Like it's very rare for
me to go after album cuts because you know, when
they labels are out there, they want to put a
singles out. They always kind of know which ones, so
they're gonna be the singles with a rare exception. And
then I just have to wait on the charts to

(10:55):
see what other songs people are resonating to that reach
higher up on the charts like the other songs. So
for Olivia Dean, for whatever reason, man I need is
the one song that everybody's resonating to in the US. Meanwhile,
she's had Nice to each Other that was doing very
well and now hit a new mark at number nine.
She had three songs in the top ten, most two

(11:16):
songs on the top ten on the UK charts this
past weekend, and now she comes in, new album comes in,
and now she has three songs in the hot one
hundred that actually are up there this time, and man
I needs just outside of the top ten. Great for her,
but those are artists that we're noticing here, and you
know they're not much more being paid attention. I mean,

(11:38):
there's other artists that have divined. Verrewell, Morgan Wallen obviously
Kick Dass another album coming out and still rules the
charts today, but there have been some that had come
and went also because of the fact that there are
some older artists. I'm not saying old in terms of
they're getting older in age, but it's been a while
since we've seen them come out with new albums. Wayne

(12:00):
the Carter six his six installment, but it took so
long from the last one to this one, and Carter
five wasn't that much much better either, but an alarming
commercial underperformance this year. It was number two in the
Bild war two hundred one hundred and eight thousand sales
of albums and the streaming data fourteen point two million

(12:23):
first day streams on Spotify. The Carter five had sixty
six million streams in his twenty eighteen debut. When you're
keeping yourself away from the limelight and you're not putting
out music like you used to, that's one thing we're
not getting much of anything right now. We don't have
a lot of albums coming out on a regular rasis
unless you're just white hot. I mean, listen for Sabrina

(12:46):
Carpenter to go and carry right off of the whole
thing with Taylor Swift and me on airs tour and yeah,
taking advantage of it. Sure, go ahead and get out
there and put another album. And you know, she did
her thing with Short and Sweet and a deluxe version,
and then she comes back out again with Man's Best Friend,
and you know it's done pretty well. But again there's
that Taylor Swift approval and the fact that you know,

(13:10):
in the New Life of a show Girl album, the
two songs feature Philia and you know, for me, I
did enjoy the fate of a fel excuse me and
then Enjoying Life of a Showgirl where Sabrinda Carpenter is
a featured artist on it. Those are the two songs
to God and catch It most of all. But we'll
still what the rest of the chart looks like next week.

(13:31):
The chart's gonna be, I guaranteed, maybe all, but what
one or two spots will have Taylor Swift taking up
the whole track. I don't think she takes up the
entire chart. I think she takes eight slots of the
ten because I feel like something will happen. There will
be a couple of songs that will still stay up there.

(13:51):
I don't know why, but I think Golda will still
stay up there, and I can see I can still
see what I want. Morgan Wall and Tam McCrae is
still staying up there, and I think those two songs
will remain. I don't think anybody else is gonna take
that spot, but I think those two songs will remain
in the top ten, and the Taylor supp takes the rest,

(14:13):
and she'll take up probably about the first, you know,
she'll take up out of the twelve songs on the album,
probably about up to the top twenty. I'm sure they're
probably all clear the top twenty. But then keep an
eye on it because in the following week there's gonna
be a lot of drop off of a number of songs.
And I only think a couple of songs are actually
gonna stay around top ten, if any, and that's it

(14:34):
because the other ones are gonna take a tumble. And
that's what you always know. There's something going on with
that there. Now back to Lil Wayne. So the product
was slammed for being awful and incas is the production
and poor sonic cohesion. The beats sounded like some of
the worst production that they've heard in years, and there

(14:54):
was a lack of quality control and vision that have
hampered the artists the artistic and commercial appeal. Yeah, it
which is not good. And I think it was like
one song I enjoyed at there was like and I well,
I think it was I forget. It was like one
song I actually thought was even worthwhile to listen to
it for a little bit, But like everything else was
just no. It's an artist, it's just a legacy listen.
You're just getting a payday off of it. That's fine,

(15:16):
but like they're really not much more. It's a throwaway.
That's the biggest part all these albums. For the most part,
you're getting a lot of throwaway songs. It's disposable, and
we shouldn't be expecting the music labels to be putting
out music that is going to end up being disposable.
It's very tough, some mixed bag for some of the artists. Now,
let's say with Dojacat and Cardi B. So Dungeoncat has

(15:39):
V that just came out and it's been struggling severely
with initial commercial metrics. Thirty two to forty thousand units sold.
Scarlet from a few years back has seventy two thousand
first sweek units, and there's the album's lack of a
major radio streaming single. Jealous Type is the single to

(16:00):
go look forward to. Whether everyone else with that album, no,
not really, not much really came of it, but Jealous
Type was the single and that was pretty much it.
I can tell you exactly what happened with Dojacat. The
problem with her is that she alienated her audience. Let's
not forget that long ago that she really bashed back
of their audience, because then she decided to go on

(16:20):
this other route, a little more demonic. Stop with the wig,
stop with the glam, because she didn't like the objectification
of her. Now, I'm not saying anything wrong about that,
but the thing was, you know, when we saw how
she looked and say so and we see her in
other songs, you know, planet, her was a completely different
vibe and for whatever reason, you know, it all changed

(16:42):
for her. Kiss Me Moore was a great songs and
like you know, there was so much going on to
it get into it. Yeah, also great, and she was
doing just fine. She had a song on the Albs soundtrack,
and then there was just a point before Scholy comes
out that she was going after the fan base because

(17:05):
you know, all you want to do is just you know, fantasize,
you know, you know, having sex with her and all
this kind of thing, and she didn't want to go
and look glamorous anymore. Something changed, because why did she
turn back? Like it was almost like it wasn't like
she could play this off that this was like an
era for her. So it's like Madonna, Okay, she's changing
your look. No, well she actually did doj can't now
it looks like she's gone back to her original persona.

(17:28):
And it's also not like she's very playful like she
was before. That's all kind of like gone. It's a
different feel to her. So her identity is now changed.
But you know that's the also thing where you know,
when you go out there and you hit an album
and it hits so hard and then everything just changes

(17:50):
after that and you don't want to go into another
area with it, like you just Genie back in the
bottle is not going to happen for her, and that's
what happened with her right now. Cardi B also struggling
right now. She did debut number one of the War
two hundred two hundred thousand Nicquintal units, So you still
got a fan base. But again, the album that she
had out first was twenty eighteen. Seven years she's only

(18:12):
been putting out singles that we've seen, like Wop and up.
But like, you know, that's been a while and those
are great songs. But you know what, nothing else has happened,
and she's had out of the songs that she was
doing in either features at all. But she was doing
other things with herself, you know, being a mom and
having relationships, going in other routes. There's critics saying that

(18:36):
she delivered solid rap performances, but the album was long
and criticized for relying on older tracks to inflate consumption metrics.
So too far to miss the mark. And then you
have albums to come out basically concept albums for Liddy
Gotgat and Molly Cyrus and Milly's I don't understand either

(19:01):
because endless of a vacation with a different vibe to her,
and now all of a sudden she's coming back in
and trying to glam herself up as well. This is
the girl that's got like a million tats on her
and just has like a certain like, you know, I
guess she was just channeling Blondie and the Fleetwood Mac
and all this tind of thing, and then she's trying
to go into another route and it just didn't work.

(19:22):
I mean, look, Flowers is a great song, and people
heard it for for years. I feel like, but to
get that again is feeling a bit much. Something Beautiful
was the album that came out. Critics didn't have. Some
people that thought it was very ambitious and introspective, but
she was moving into a genre defying cinematic and almost
prog pop space. The Least sing End of the World

(19:44):
stalled at number fifty two, and the were Hot one
hundred and failed to match. Flowers. No major crossover hit,
and the album's less commercial direction resulted in a quiet
chart performance in the US, and many the labeled the
critically complex but commercially disappointing project as a significant underperformance
relative to her status. And there's just some points where
she's had some hits where just like all of a sudden,

(20:06):
I mean, like when I think Plastic Cards, Okay, Prisoner
was not bad with Dua Lipa. I enjoyed Midnight Sky
a lot. I thought it was a great song. Malibu
was okay for the last album, but then when I
look and say, okay, she had a song nothing Breaks
Like a Heart with Mark Ronson, also great song. And

(20:27):
there have been other things that she did that I
just didn't really get into, like Okay, you used to
be Young, No, not my song Heart of Glass, recreating Blondie. No,
I didn't like that either. And I think we've also
just had her out there for so long that if
she's not staying at a particular land that we're all
always used to, it's just not working. But that's somebody's

(20:48):
been out there. I mean, at what point do you realize, Okay,
she's not gonna be that big star like she was before.
I mean, right now I'm thinking about Ariana Grande is
gonna go back out touring again. And I'm saying to myself,
if she puts out another album coming up for herself
after the Wicked stuff, I don't know if she's gonna
be able to do well to get back into the
lane because it's been a little bit too long away.

(21:08):
Even if she didn't put an album written not too
long ago, it didn't performed that well. And the same
thing goes, even if the Lexi edition didn't do much
better either, But that kind of fate is going on
right now with the rest of these artists. Then you
get the Lady guy got on Mayhem, so she wanted
to go Balls at the Wall pop up extravaganza, the
Lady get the monsters out there and all this thing

(21:29):
going on again. And she put the lead single Disease
that came out peaked at number twenty seven, and then
there was a promotional pivot. Then she came out Would
Die with a Smile in the feature with Bruto Mars
and of course we haven't gotten the rind of that song.
It's just still out there. But the album was deemed

(21:50):
the return to her straightforward pop star mode, some songs
being called unambitious and the failler to sound as trilling
or innovative as their best work. Yeah, it just felt
like it was a kind of bit of an amalgamation
to the same best before and even the song that
she put out for the Wednesday soundtrack, Dead Dance, it
just doesn't work like that whole kind of eighties disco
vibe to it. I don't know this is gonna be

(22:11):
a song that's gonna even get resurrected back for Halloween.
It doesn't really work. I listened to it and I
was like, eh, I wanted to give it a chance,
but no, it's not working for me.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
No.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
So the market is in disarray. Overall. You're looking at
the fact that celebrity power remains immense but still increasingly volatile.
While Taylor Swift, you know, it doesn't matter. She could
put on a bad album, It's gonna sell. That's just
the power that she has. But those that were giants
in the space, she would think, man, these are can't miss.
Little Wayne Doja Cat did not work, could not crack.

(22:48):
Nine to year stream counts that define modern mega hits,
pour production choices, inconsistent artistic direction, and so there's all
that going on, and it's all hurting across the board.
And then when you look at what has been charting
this year that have hit the Billboard Hot one, two hundred,
the album chart, it's amazing what's up there. So the

(23:09):
start of the year, you had a little baby that
came out with this album Wham. It was up there
for a week, up and gone the weekend with Hurry
Up Tomorrow one week and that movie probably tanked it,
and they've been a couple of songs that held off
from it. I mean, you think about Timeless and you
know that's pretty much. I mean, there's a couple of

(23:30):
other songs that came from it, but like you know,
cry for Me, but there was not much more that
came off of that that really was popular. Then you
had gen X with Kendrick Lamar, and of course Squabble
Up came out of that. Luther Man of the Garden
actually did really well TV off that really did hold
up well at the start of the year and it
did a lot two weeks at number one, three weeks

(23:51):
total two hundred and thirty six thirty six thousand units
sold for albums. Also, he won five Grammy Awards and
also had a Super Bowl halftime show that also contributed
to all that. So he did really what really good
that he's one of the real success stories this year.
But also fresh off everything that happened with the fight

(24:14):
with Drake last year, which we went to pretty extensively
in several episodes. Last year, Party next Door come out
with one Week with some sexty Songs for You, which
had a couple of features of Drake in an out
Tam McCray was so close to what one weekend number one,
but a lot of songs could have stayed and have
the test of time when you think about it. Revolving

(24:36):
Door still stays out there, sports Car still holds up
really strong. It's Okay I'm okay was a very good,
strong hit, and you know she's still doing this fine,
also just bringing out extra things, being features, still putting
out some mostly promotional singles out there. Then you had
Mayhem that was one week at number at number one

(24:56):
on the album Start, then Eternal Sunshine Deluxe Friturdays Ahead,
which had a couple more songs that got a little
bit more interesting. So twilight Zone was in there, and
that was the one song that really kind of just
stuck around. And we Can't Be Friends that was the
one song that came out from the original started the album,

(25:17):
and that was not much more. And yes, and but
again that's all from last year. Did you get Played
by Cardi? That was three weeks number one with music
which was just I mean, it was just noise. I'm sorry.
There was nothing redeeming that it's at all, but it
was up there and people got in to it and
it sold. King Carson and More Chaos also got the

(25:42):
number one. I don't know who that is. I don't
know a rapper. I haven't heard of them since it
coming out with their deluxe album Lana, and that also
did really well. But also with all the love of
that came from the Kendrick Lamar album and also her
her work she's been doing out there. She's pretty consistent

(26:03):
going out there and being noticed in her in her
lane for R and B. Ghost Scletta was one week
in number one. Didn't even know about that. Then you
had Bad Bunny with Debi Photos, which killed I mean
once about one of the success stories for album sales
this year at the start of the year was him,

(26:26):
you know, and he had a lot of songs on
the Latin chart that have held up. We're getting pr like,
there's a lot of bangers in this here across. I mean,
I think it was the songs that I was always
hitting up with Velda, Bad Bunny, Omar, Kurtz da V
was really good because there was a lot of that

(26:47):
feel of where he was really getting himself into the salsa,
merengue vioment and even the dembo stuff. EO also in
that same run and d T M F and there
was a lot of good songs. Al don't get me wrong,
when he goes to the Super Bowl this the next year,
he's got a lot of songs to work with. There's
a lot of material. We'll see how it goes. Sleep

(27:08):
Token gimmingg in one week at number one with even
an Arcadia. Then you had Travis Scott with Jack Boys too,
and there's a handful of songs I got off of
that album that I really enjoyed. But again, it wasn't
like it was a big deal coming off of that.
And this is after Morgan Wall had the number one
spot on the chart on the album start for two months.

(27:28):
So Jack Boys, I'm still if you had to go
tell me about his music, I'm still about PBT.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
I did like Shine. Travis Scott with Guerilla, I was
all about that, but there wasn't much more to that
than I really enjoyed. But you know, it was a
few things with it. Todd the Creator one week at
number one in August with Don't Tap the Glass and
now Sugar My Tongue is definitely in the lexicon right now.
It's gotten viral like crazy. The suckond for You was

(28:00):
actually there. I'm not a big title. I'm not into
titic creator. It's just not my thing. It's I'm I'm
not young enough and hip enough to really appreciate that.
Morgan wall As we already said that guy had a
million songs right now within the problem. And so there's
the feature track Superman What I Want Just in case

(28:23):
twenty cigarettes and again there was thirty seven songs. So
something's gonna work with this. Love somebody that was already
a hit before all this ain't coming back and there
was just so much more going on with this here
that he was doing that worked really well. I actually
kind of liked this on Miami the remix it was
actually pretty good. So but again, thirty seven songs. A
lot of people were gonna go back to listen to

(28:44):
that again, Straight Kids Karma also hit number one this year,
and then Man's Best Friend one week at number one,
SID and so on from that album, Manchild Tears and
for me, I also like when you get hot, everything
else else tours not bad, you know, that's fine. But again,
twelve albums, pretty sill, well set, but didn't have a

(29:07):
whole lot of songs that just stuck up there and
stayed for a long time. Twenty one Pilots having an
album this year and also hitting up a little bit
higher up for one week and this was just last
late last week months. I don't even remember about twenty
one Pilots, but yeah, they came out with another album,
and there you go. And I said with Cardi B,
like okay with her album, I'm the Drama. I was

(29:30):
feeling good about safe with Killannie. That song was the
only one, the only one song I really felt like
was like something there Other than that, didn't really feel
anything else about anything else she had on the album
that really just felt I mean, think about it. She
had Tyler on the album. She had a Jackson on
on the album, and I was like and Summer Walker
and you know, I was like, eh, it did not

(29:51):
hit like it would think, not like I would hope.
And then K Pop Demon Hunters, which you know, there's
a lot of songs that are still holding up right now, Takedown,
how It's done, Soda Pop, Golden Strategy, there's your idol.
Those songs are still up there. What it sounds like,
those songs are still up there and performing well, and

(30:14):
no one saw that coming. But that's the weakness right
now the music industry. There's just nothing more going on
with it there, and it's sad to see that a
couple more stories want to go and get into before
we wrap things up. There's a new thing now. Remember
I talked about Tillie Norwood last week, the AI star
that's getting to be an overnight sensation that eventually will

(30:36):
become possibly if she gets an agent, she'll become a
big star, and Hollywood is pushing back against it. Well,
the other part I have to push back against is Sora,
which is not an actress or an actual talent. It's
a platform, it's software. So CA, one of the biggest
agencies in the world, have sounded the alarm over Sora too,

(31:01):
is a new open eye generative generative video model, allowing
users to create social media ready videos with a brief
text prompt so it can be the product of the
user's imagination fan fiction like story using recognizable properties. The
remix feature will allow for mind bending mashups. We've already
seen out there two pocat Score sitting on the set
of Mister Rodgers Neighborhood, Michael Jackson doing Jackass like stunts

(31:24):
or Pikachu's driving on a helmet, the fight in the
thin Red Line, all these kind of things that are
going on. Disney and several other players opted out from
the beginning and put on a stern statement saying that
Sora too exposes our clients quote and their intellectual property
is the significant risk end quote. The Motion Picture Association

(31:45):
and Charles Rifkin, who speaks for major Hollywood studios, set
in a statement that the it's the responsibility of Opening
Eye to prevent infringement in the Sora to service. Open
EI needs to take immediate action and decisive actions to
address the issue. Well established cover law safeguards the rights
of creators and applies here. No response from Open AI yet,

(32:07):
but there has already been some part where some AI
companies are coming in and they're trying to go up
against the breaches. Warner Brothers, Walt, Disney, and NBC Diversal
following suit against San Francis. San Francisco is based AI
firm mid Journey over protected ip Rangiven DC Superheroes to
Star Wars Superheroes and their service. So the AI companies

(32:32):
are coming in and all these big major studios are
all fighting back with lawsuits as best as they can
other news LA Times union now has a strike at
its hands so near the La Times. They have voted
to authorize a strike, hoping to reach a new contract
of management, and the union voted in support by eighty

(32:54):
five percent. The La Times guild, representing reporters, the editors, designers,
photograh over to other journalists at the West Coast's largest newspaper.
No strike date has been scheduled, but the vote gives
the guild leadership the authority to call for a workstoppage
if the union finds it necessary. That's now coming up.

(33:14):
The union has been trying to bargain for a new
contract for three years, during which the La Times has
gone through several rounds of layoffs, cutting union members from
four fifty to two hundred, and we talked about some
of those layoffs as well. With that, I want to
go see Roof Band, the Chatting Tatum movie coming out
this weekend because leiter that or I was gonna go
watch get some other movie coming out. Oh good fortune,

(33:37):
Now that's next week. There's a bunch of movies still
to go out, but there's not much to work off
of music. Movies we could use some more quality, but
you know, until then, come back next week too, the
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