Springsteen sells publishing to Sony for $500M
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Sony should concentrate on making enough PS5s so to not ruin 3 Christmas mornings in a row.
Dumbasses.
Dumbasses.
Looks like Sony has the next musician they're gonna kill
I don’t get this at all. I can listen to any Springsteen song for free on YouTube. What’s the play for Sony here?
Ads, movies, TV shows, cover versions, music streaming fees and download sales.
Mav is not gonna be happy about this!
I don't get the Sony deal either and I like Springsteen but good Lord most of his best music is 50 years old now, or at least his best known
It also greatly benefits the artist. It’s been difficult to tour and rake in big bucks during Covid. Also, capital gains tax rate will most certain go up soon, and doing these deals now will save artists tens of millions that they would have to pay if same deal was done in the future.
It’s worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. They got a bargain.
My only hope is Sony’s CEO hates The Mid-Level Manager as much as I do and that this is really a devious — albeit costly — plan to erase Sproingstun from the musical landscape.
I mean, if I had Musk/Bezos-level FU money, I wouldn’t be shooting giant bottle rockets into space. Instead, I’d buy that worthless **********’s entire catalog/music rights/memorabilia too. Everything I could get my hands on — his token Grammys, gold albums, guitars, handwritten original music scores, “trophies,” etc… I’d pile all that **** up, set fire to it, and then prance around the pyre Dancing In The Dark fashion with the Glory Days guitar strapped around my shoulders. Finally, as the last few embers flickered, I’d smash the guitar to pieces with a fury that would make Thor blush.
But that’s just me.
Who am I kidding? If I had Musk/Bezos-level FU money, I wouldn’t waste a penny of it on Sucksteen. I’d buy what all guys want — two chicks at once…and yes, one of them would be Diane F#cking Lane.
I read where some of this catalog selling was estate planning related. Many of these artists are in their 70's or 80's and maximizing the value of the catalog each year is legally complicated and time intensive. Thus these aging stars take cash to leave their heirs rather than a more complex asset.
Meh, depends on your definition of 'winning.'
If you owned his catalog you could sell the rights to a few of his songs to the worst politician ever and let them use the songs in campaign commercials and rallies. That would teach him.
How much time? Didn’t realize you were an expert in music catalogue valuation.
I say destroying all of his prized music possessions = winning.
Did the Boss bang your mom or something? You're really pissed at him for some reason.
You know what, you are right. I’m sure they are paying 500m knowing they will lose money.
Hahahaha, my dad loathes Springsteen and has basically engrained it into me since birth. Bon Jovi is up there as well. The dude just rages out when they come on lol.
Examples? Certainly when he was at his height, it was a LONG time ago. You can debate whether his 'newer' music is better than Born to Run, Darkness, The River albums but that was when he was the most popular.
Dammit dude, how are you not familiar with my body of work on this subject? It's quite extensive. However, since you asked, here are a few of the many reasons I hate that **********...
- He used the term "speedball" instead of "fastball" in a Glory Days lyric about a baseball player, for no reason at all other than he's a dumbass poser. No one in history -- no player, coach, manager, general manager, owner, announcer, analyst, commentator, agent -- has ever said 'speedball' when referring to a pitcher's fastball. It's idiotic. He didn't even need to use it to make the lyric work from a syllable standpoint; he used it because he's a moron, and personally, I find that offensive.
- In the opening sequence of the video for the aforementioned Glory Days, it shows an ostensibly blue-collar, hard-working, salt-of-the-earth Bruce toiling away at his construction job while sporting a brand new, shiny red hard hat and aviator sunglasses. First, that entitled bastard has never worked a hard day in his life, so stop with the working-class-dog ********. At least throw your hat on the ground and scuff it up a little before the cameras start rolling, idiot. Second, aviators are MY schtick (see avatar), so f#ck off and get some f a g g o t y-***-Don-Henley-Boys-Of-Summer Wayfarers. They suit you better.
- The Glory Days video could have just gone straight into a terrible song and that would have been bad enough. Unfortunately for the viewers, however, Springsuck decides to demonstrate his pitching for some inexplicable reason. He looks like an afflicted, uncoordinated orangutan throwing poo at kids. Now presumably no one would show off their throwing motion if they thought/knew it was terrible. Ergo, apparently Bruce thinks this good:
- He fancies himself a be a rock star, yet hops around like a preening ballerina...
- He fancies himself to be a rock star, yet sashays in the dark...
- His cover of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town would make Helen Keller drive rusty nails through her own eardrums AND SHE WAS ALREADY DEAF.
- Have I mentioned his pitching form? Hey dumbass, you're supposed to be winding up, not doing overhead tricep extensions.
- He dumped an in-her-prime Julianne Phillips for this manly *****...
- His songs -- ALL his songs -- suck. Period. Full stop.
- He wears more makeup than Mary F#cking Kay.
- He routinely subjects his fans to 3 hour+ concerts, thus violating the Constitution's provisions against the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment.
- He looks like he's transitioning into Daisy Duke while trying to keep from pissing herself in the batter's box...
I could go on, but you get the point.
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Again...incorrect. His best songwriting outside of BtR and Darkness, was on The Rising, and again of late w/ Western Stars and his most recent album last year w/ the EStB, (Letter to You) which is fantastic.
His "height" has never waned, as evident by all of his tours/works from 2012 to his unbelievable Broadway run. You are too focused on his "hits" that received air time instead of his body of work. He is probably more popular now than at any time since Born in the USA. His tour next year will be ridiculous.
I am biased, as evident by the # of times I have seen him and having studied his music for many, many years. I don't like his politics, but he is arguably the best singer/songwriter ever, and his live performances speak for themselves.
Unlike ya boy Bruce, I don't need help to know it should be called a fastball.
Learn. This is the definitive treatment of the subject, and no where in it will you hear the term "speedball." If "fastball" is good enough for Walter Johnson, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax, Nolan Ryan, and Crash F#cking Davis, then it's good enough for me.
Seriously man, pick a different Springsuck molehill to die on because defending "speedball" ain't gonna work for you.
Seriously man, pick a different Springsuck molehill to die on because defending "speedball" ain't gonna work for you.
Well actually, I tend to agree with you on the quality of his later music, for the most part (wife and I love Western Stars, for example) but then I am a much bigger fan of the Boss than your average Joe (but not in your league, obviously)
P.S. You forgot to mention he won the Oscar for best song (Philadelphia) in his spare time.
I like the guy but he hasn't made a good album in 40 years. I also appreciate Mav's visceral hatred of him
Thanks, brother
. It means a lot to know that my work doesn't go unnoticed.-he's short and from new Jersey (sorry kook)...two strikes.
-his music is boring, it appeals to hamandeggers and basic bitches*, as evidenced in this thread.
*Not that there is anything wrong with that from a business (sony) standpoint. McDonald's sells a lot of ****** burgers. There is money to be made off of the great unwashed.
-his music is boring, it appeals to hamandeggers and basic bitches*, as evidenced in this thread.
*Not that there is anything wrong with that from a business (sony) standpoint. McDonald's sells a lot of ****** burgers. There is money to be made off of the great unwashed.
Not to throw gas on the fire, but there's a live vid on YT of him playing some lead guitar on "Badlands"... and man, is it bad lol. You'd enjoy laughing at it.Dammit dude, how are you not familiar with my body of work on this subject? It's quite extensive. However, since you asked, here are a few of the many reasons I hate that **********...
- He used the term "speedball" instead of "fastball" in a Glory Days lyric about a baseball player, for no reason at all other than he's a dumbass poser. No one in history -- no player, coach, manager, general manager, owner, announcer, analyst, commentator, agent -- has ever said 'speedball' when referring to a pitcher's fastball. It's idiotic. He didn't even need to use it to make the lyric work from a syllable standpoint; he used it because he's a moron, and personally, I find that offensive.
- In the opening sequence of the video for the aforementioned Glory Days, it shows an ostensibly blue-collar, hard-working, salt-of-the-earth Bruce toiling away at his construction job while sporting a brand new, shiny red hard hat and aviator sunglasses. First, that entitled bastard has never worked a hard day in his life, so stop with the working-class-dog ********. At least throw your hat on the ground and scuff it up a little before the cameras start rolling, idiot. Second, aviators are MY schtick (see avatar), so f#ck off and get some f a g g o t y-***-Don-Henley-Boys-Of-Summer Wayfarers. They suit you better.
- The Glory Days video could have just gone straight into a terrible song and that would have been bad enough. Unfortunately for the viewers, however, Springsuck decides to demonstrate his pitching for some inexplicable reason. He looks like an afflicted, uncoordinated orangutan throwing poo at kids. Now presumably no one would show off their throwing motion if they thought/knew it was terrible. Ergo, apparently Bruce thinks this good:
- He fancies himself a be a rock star, yet hops around like a preening ballerina...
- He fancies himself to be a rock star, yet sashays in the dark...
- His cover of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town would make Helen Keller drive rusty nails through her own eardrums AND SHE WAS ALREADY DEAF.
- Have I mentioned his pitching form? Hey dumbass, you're supposed to be winding up, not doing overhead tricep extensions.
- He dumped an in-her-prime Julianne Phillips for this manly *****...
- His songs -- ALL his songs -- suck. Period. Full stop.
- He wears more makeup than Mary F#cking Kay.
- He routinely subjects his fans to 3 hour+ concerts, thus violating the Constitution's provisions against the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment.
- He looks like he's transitioning into Daisy Duke while trying to keep from pissing herself in the batter's box...
I could go on, but you get the point.