(via iorr Cristiano Radtke)

From an interview with Paul McCartney for Brazil's O Globo:

(Also, via Shidoobee)

The #1 album is Utopia by Travis Scott. All 19 songs from the album debuted in
the Hot 100. Four different album covers. More guests than tracks. Guest artists include:

KayCyy
Teezo Touchdown
Bon Iver
Sampha
Drake
Playboi Carti
Sheck Wes
Beyoncé
Rob49
21 Savage
The Weeknd
Yung Lean
Young Thug
James Blake
Westside Gunn
Kid Cudi
Bad Bunny
Future
SZA

Travis performed the entire album for a big crowd in Rome at the archeological site
Circus Maximus on August 7, and the next day released a film of the event
on youtube...

The Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, which measures
earthquake magnitude, said on its website, "we have received many requests for
information from Roman citizens who felt one or more earthquakes after 21:30." 

A seismologist with the Institute Giovanni Diaferia noted that the impact measured
from those jumping at the concert was equivalent to "a magnitude 1.3 earthquake,
at each jump" in a social media post on Wednesday.

Alfonsina Russo, an archaeologist who runs the nearby Archeological Park of the
Coliseum, criticized the choice of venue for such an event.  "The Circus Maximus
is not a field, it's a monument; it has subterranean galleries, archeological areas. 
You can't have tens of thousands of people jumping up and down for hours".

Here's the movie. I gave up after ten minutes. And I have a high tolerance for
this kinda crap. I mean, I very much disliked the current Taylor Swift show, but
I was able to watch almost all of it, mostly out of morbid curiosity, but at least
she's got some catchy tunes to compensate for her dearth of heart and soul




Also, FYI, the results of a recent survey...



So... It's not taste that's the big problem. It's the spending (in terms of both time
and money -- youth rules, sometimes for the better, and sometimes, like now, for
the worse)

A nobody. 7 days. 15 million views. And now its all the establishment media saying its racist.






But black reactors are spreading it like wildfire.

God I hope Mick and Keith have also decided to spit some truths this year...
The timing might be right for it.

That was good, thanks. But I do think Mick is getting carried away with
this maracas gig. Its beneath him. Not to mention he's been skipping out
on some of the ongoing rehearsals with the Stones. I thought Mick was
immune to addiction. Bloody maracas take down another good man.
I blame Andrew Watt.

"rich men north of richmond" refers to the powerful washington politicians
of BOTH political parties. you may want it to be about "the south"or "race" or "right-
wingers" but it isn't. its about the plight of working class people of every race in
every region. And thats who's responding to it.

Album News

-- Post Malone featuring Mick Jagger on maracas drops from #2 to #7

-- New entry: Post Malone Greatest Hits #16 (he's the artist with the greatest number
of diamond-certified singles in chart history)

-- Forty Licks drops from #61 to #81

-- Taylor Swift only has 7 albums in the Top 20 this week, down from 10

-- Taylor Swift has turned down the Super Bowl halftime show. Super Bowl is
considering an offer to play during intermission at a Taylor Swift concert.