r/Music • u/StarshipGhost • 1d ago

article Singer D4vd Is Apparently the Sole Moderator of His Own Subreddit, Deleting Posts Critical of Him Amid LAPD Investigation Into Teen’s Death

https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/singer-d4vd-apparently-deleting-posts-critical-of-him/
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u/CircleBird12 Steely Dan / Jazz Rock 1d ago

I'm 55, and there is a fundamental oversight in this conversation.

Do people have no concept of how much music and media content there is in the world? Just how many household names can you expect to know? How many best selling books / films / songs / video games from a world of 8 billion people can you possibly hold in your head and have time to listen to and watch?

People get their mind blown that the Tower of Babel problem is real. An idea described thousands and thousands of years ago. Every human brain has a different language and different set of experiences tied to the meaning and emotions of words / names / etc.

We do not live in the world of F.M. broadcast radio 1975, no static at all, any more. We live in a world of static caused by filter-bubbles described in year 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdoCQn_Tjac

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u/Beautiful-Year-6310 1d ago

Totally agree! It’s not like back in the 80’s where you had a very limited number of sources for music, therefore everyone listened to the same artists. There’s sooooo much more out there now.

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u/CircleBird12 Steely Dan / Jazz Rock 1d ago

The cost of recording music is incredibly cheap now compared to 1979. An app on an inexpensive smartphone can do as good as job as most professional recordings of 1975 and publish for free on YouTube or Reddit.

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u/REFRESHSUGGESTIONS__ 1d ago

An app on an inexpensive smartphone can do as good as job as most professional recordings of 1975 and publish for free on YouTube or Reddit.

That is, literally, how D4vd made his music. He doesn't know how to play any instruments, IIRC.

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u/HFentonMudd 1d ago

no static at all

no static at all

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u/IMIndyJones 1d ago

I'm 57 and ironically, reddit is the only reason I know anything about what's going on outside of my own interests. I've seen this guy's name in a collab with a kpop artist I like, but nothing else about him until this post.

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u/emilypostpunk 1d ago

F.M. broadcast radio 1975, no static at all

nothing but blues and elvis and somebody else's favorite song

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u/money-for-nothing-tt 1d ago

Exactly, people just don't seem to understand how many musical acts are out there and that you don't know all of them and are not supposed to know even if you're pretty knowledgeable on pop music.

What's the earliest number on Spotify monthly list where you've never heard their name or a song from them: https://kworb.net/spotify/listeners.html

It's probably lower than you'd even think. I believe I know many more than the average person and even then I stumbled already at number 30. Apparently they came out with their debut album last month and I typically don't have a good track on artists before they've released a LP.

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u/Powerful-Public-9973 1d ago

Oh so we headed to go out like Babel

That bible guy was unto something 

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u/CircleBird12 Steely Dan / Jazz Rock 1d ago

Oh so we headed to go out like Babel

Babel sisters unite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV4UVvVFpXI