definitely feel this: “streaming platforms encouraged passive listening—so people don’t even know the names of songs or artists.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing?
This is a bigger problem that you can fix with a Pitchfork
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January 20, 2024 at 3:00 PM
definitely feel this: “streaming platforms encouraged passive listening—so people don’t even know the names of songs or artists.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
“Sooner or later, the #audience refuses to be held captive. And that’s happening now at #Netflix - hence the #stock #sell-off.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
The Collapse at Netflix Signals the End of Audience Capture
The most popular strategy in the tech world has stopped working. That's good news for all of us.
open.substack.com
July 17, 2026 at 7:59 PM
“Sooner or later, the #audience refuses to be held captive. And that’s happening now at #Netflix - hence the #stock #sell-off.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
O homem mais musical do mundo. Belo tributo de @tedgioia.bsky.social ao nosso Hermeto.
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"The Most Musical Man in the World"
I celebrate the life and legacy of Hermeto Pascoal, who left us yesterday at age 89
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September 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
O homem mais musical do mundo. Belo tributo de @tedgioia.bsky.social ao nosso Hermeto.
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
June 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Um ano lendo sobre isso e não me surpreendo nenhum pouco
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open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed
A year-long investigation by an indie journalist is a call to action
open.substack.com
December 21, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Um ano lendo sobre isso e não me surpreendo nenhum pouco
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
Ted Gioia has a great post about Pitchfork and music journalism's ongoing collapse - open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia....
January 20, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Ted Gioia has a great post about Pitchfork and music journalism's ongoing collapse - open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia....
And then this from @tedgioia.bsky.social about how politics and our culture industry is stuck in just rebranding old ideas.
And how AI is just reheating old ideas and information that already exists:
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And how AI is just reheating old ideas and information that already exists:
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The New 80% Rule in Culture
It's ugly out there
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June 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
And then this from @tedgioia.bsky.social about how politics and our culture industry is stuck in just rebranding old ideas.
And how AI is just reheating old ideas and information that already exists:
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
And how AI is just reheating old ideas and information that already exists:
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
“”This #song is so #perfect in its open-endedness that I’m reluctant to analyze it.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
My 12 Favorite Existential Songs
It's not a real genre—but should be
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March 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“”This #song is so #perfect in its open-endedness that I’m reluctant to analyze it.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
“Essa é a estratégia do momento. Você compra um estúdio de Hollywood e o transforma em uma fazenda de conteúdo para pequenas telas. Então, na fase 2, as pessoas que fazem esse conteúdo são substituídas por IA”
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Hollywood Is Turning into a Content Farm for Silicon Valley
In just the last few weeks, things have gotten worse—much worse.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“Essa é a estratégia do momento. Você compra um estúdio de Hollywood e o transforma em uma fazenda de conteúdo para pequenas telas. Então, na fase 2, as pessoas que fazem esse conteúdo são substituídas por IA”
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open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
If you aren't reading @Ted Gioia, you should. He's brilliant and so far, always right. For instance, he's uncovered the Spotify scandal that's... really quite something. We are being fed fake crap, while real artists are starved for money and listens.
www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-t...
#TedGioia
www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-t...
#TedGioia
The Ugly Truth About Spotify is Finally Revealed
A year-long investigation by an independent journalist is very alarming
www.honest-broker.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:59 PM
If you aren't reading @Ted Gioia, you should. He's brilliant and so far, always right. For instance, he's uncovered the Spotify scandal that's... really quite something. We are being fed fake crap, while real artists are starved for money and listens.
www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-t...
#TedGioia
www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-t...
#TedGioia
Ted Gioia, who generously agreed to provide the introduction to our new edition from @bhousepress.bsky.social, reflects on Christopher Burney's Solitary Confinement as a classic of mindfulness:
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How to Discover Mindfulness in a Nazi Solitary Confinement Cell
This extraordinary narrative is now available again
open.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ted Gioia, who generously agreed to provide the introduction to our new edition from @bhousepress.bsky.social, reflects on Christopher Burney's Solitary Confinement as a classic of mindfulness:
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
The Collapse at Netflix Signals the End of Audience Capture
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
The Collapse at Netflix Signals the End of Audience Capture
The most popular strategy in the tech world has stopped working. That's good news for all of us.
open.substack.com
July 20, 2026 at 4:53 PM
The Collapse at Netflix Signals the End of Audience Capture
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
“Vince Gilligan, one of the most brilliant minds in TV, admits that he ‘hates #AI.’ He calls it the ‘world’s most expensive #plagiarismmachine’.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
Paul McCartney Invents a New Kind of Protest Song
The culture war of the future has just started
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November 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Vince Gilligan, one of the most brilliant minds in TV, admits that he ‘hates #AI.’ He calls it the ‘world’s most expensive #plagiarismmachine’.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
Via @tedgioia : Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls?
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Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls?
It was cool to hang out at the mall—until it wasn't
open.substack.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Via @tedgioia : Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls?
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
“ #Working-class #intellectuals have vanished in recent years. Instead we have witnessed the rise of #millionaire—or #billionaire - intellectuals.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
How Jeffrey Epstein Became a Public Intellectual
It's amazing what money can buy nowadays
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February 21, 2026 at 7:13 PM
“ #Working-class #intellectuals have vanished in recent years. Instead we have witnessed the rise of #millionaire—or #billionaire - intellectuals.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
This business model is the polar opposite of the increasingly ubiquitous private equity model. open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?
open.substack.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This business model is the polar opposite of the increasingly ubiquitous private equity model. open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
“A few weeks before #Coltrane recorded #ALoveSupreme, a surprised worker at Boston’s #Jazz Workshop nightclub got to hear the main melodic motif from the opening track—because the #saxophonist was practicing it in the men’s room.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia... #music
John Coltrane's Love Is Still Supreme at Age 60
Today we're celebrating a very special album
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February 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“A few weeks before #Coltrane recorded #ALoveSupreme, a surprised worker at Boston’s #Jazz Workshop nightclub got to hear the main melodic motif from the opening track—because the #saxophonist was practicing it in the men’s room.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia... #music
Our Shared Reality Will Self-Destruct in the Next 12 Months
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Our Shared Reality Will Self-Destruct in the Next 12 Months
What happens when you can't trust photos, videos, text, or the entire web?
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Our Shared Reality Will Self-Destruct in the Next 12 Months
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
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I didn't write it or work on the book, but I love this one from The Divine and the Human (Berdyaev) twitter.com/tedgioia/sta...
November 11, 2024 at 7:45 PM
I didn't write it or work on the book, but I love this one from The Divine and the Human (Berdyaev) twitter.com/tedgioia/sta...
“I learned about #jazz at the public library. That is so uncool, I’m almost ashamed to admit it. I stumbled upon a stack of Downbeat magazines at the Hawthorne library, and read through them like they were some kind of holy script.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
The Live Music Event That Changed My Life
I met my destiny, and nothing would be the same afterwards
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February 16, 2026 at 8:06 PM
“I learned about #jazz at the public library. That is so uncool, I’m almost ashamed to admit it. I stumbled upon a stack of Downbeat magazines at the Hawthorne library, and read through them like they were some kind of holy script.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...