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Social Media is Dead, Long Live Social Media

How the Internet has accidentally reconfigured the way we think of music, and vice versa.

As you may have heard, Nemo the Blizzard whipped his dick out and splorked 34 ice-cold inches all over the state of Connecticut, where I currently reside. Because I’m from the Lone Star state, I’ve been holing up and staying cozy the best way I know how: beside a radiator while nursing a bourbon IV drip. It’s given me a lot of time to think.

Oddly enough, Kitty (i.e., ♡kitty♡) has consumed my thoughts. Not because her latest effort, D.A.I.S.Y. rage, just dropped (although that shit is dank), but because, as an artist, Kitty is a bellwether of where the industry as a whole is heading. She and the rest of her cultural cohorts – A$AP Rocky and even One Direction, among others – have, in the process of creating music, accidentally reconfigured the idea of musical fame purely by way of Internet hype.

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