TikTok and the Pop Music Rough Draft

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The wildly popular platform has reshaped pop during the coronavirus pandemic, and changed how record labels grapple with unpredictable virality. Guest: Caryn Ganz.

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0:00.0	5, 6, 7, 8.
0:02.0	It's the Aussie vote.
0:03.0	I'm in the gut in my whip bar, but I guess I'll play right in, come on paint on me.
0:06.3	Welcome to the New York Times podcast, your lightest whale of music, music, and criticism.
0:12.5	I'm your host, John Kerr, Monica.
0:14.5	No, it's no time to relax, it's time to relax.
0:16.5	I mean, here for the fight, but I want here for the back.
0:19.5	Before we get into this week's conversation, I want to say thank you to everybody who last week
0:26.0	came through for what I think is the inaugural clubhouse Q&A chat for pop gas listeners.
0:34.5	A lot of folks came through, a lot of really good questions.
0:37.0	You know, didn't come through as Karen Gans, but Karen Gans is here right now, Karen.
0:42.0	Before we switch hats today, why did you not come to the clubhouse chat?
0:46.0	There are some social platforms, John, that I don't engage with.
0:50.0	And at the moment, I'm not going to roll it out.
0:52.5	It's never say never.
0:53.5	At the moment, clubhouse is one that I am not engaging with, along with Facebook.
0:58.5	Apologies to our pop cast, Facebook group, why here are the best people in the world?
1:03.0	Why don't you just insult them by just literally straight up being like your two platforms are not valid to me?
1:08.5	That's just why I wanted to just name them all and insult them directly.
1:11.5	Geez.
1:12.5	As briefly as I can tell this, many years ago, I wrote a story for the near post about not being on Friendster.
1:18.5	So when Facebook arrived, I really felt like it was just an extension of Friendster,
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