Olivia Rodrigo fans disappointed with signed inserts

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7 hours ago, LGAte said:

Honestly this is another reason capitalism just ruins ****.

 

The whole point of getting an autographed vinyl back in the day was that you personally got the artist in the moment to sign your copy….and it was rare.

 

Not to bash Gaga, but artists who do this are just bullshitting their fans with this. Mathematically it takes away from the value of these vinyls. Artistically it looks cheap. And marketing wise: it feels like a cheap trend. 
 

I can tell the industry is becoming increasingly pre-fabbed. 
 

every artist needs their own “challenge” on their tour

evwry artist needs a presale for their tour where Ticketmaster can gouge

every artist needs a viral TikTok dance

every artist releases several bad singles before finally getting a decent hit because labels will not invest in a song but want to only invest when something has commercial value, (this is actually why the music video is dead)

every artist needs to sign a whole bunch of vinyls even though it’s bad for the environment and incredibly forced

every artist needs to have a sound to viral 

 

I feel like no one is making an era based primarily around the art, and then considering how to commercialize it. They are waiting for the commercial moment to hit and accidentally making dull bad eras because they are destroying all the good. 
 

We should all know by now a number one on the BBH100 or a song getting huge streams initially does not actually mean **** anymore. More than ever it’s all so forced. And this is why music feels so “meh” a lot of the times. There isn’t some secret bad thing that happened post-Covid. 
 

it’s actually quite simple. 
 

capitalism incentives profits and that creates big moments but not always great moments. Dollars do not equate to soul or connection. You can’t buy the communal feeling of everyone knowing the lyrics to Party in the USA, I Want it That Way, Single Ladies, or Judas. 
 

In the era of Taylor Swift where maximizing sales has become more important than maximizing art, we literally are creating this dissonance between what looks big on a spreadsheet and what feels big in the culture. which is why so many songs immediately go number one now. And so many that deserve to be number one- do not.

 

These vinyls being ****-ass signed by mega artists is an accidental truth about the output of our times: here is this shiny unnecessary over-produced piece of plastic, and on its cover is an effortless signature from its creator who is rushing to make every consumer buy buy buy. 

 

Capitalism and greed are always roots of things. 

People wanted this signature stuffs to be rare like back in the day for what exactly? Most only want it to they can resale it with high prices. Even those who mostly want to keep it, are keeping it until they are in a pinch and will let go of their rare collection to the highest bidders.

I support mass stuffs like this better, so regular folks can have something nice for themselves too. It just need to be done in more tasteful way.

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[StrawberryBlond 15,450]

Oh, these are bad. Some of them are so faded that you wouldn't even know they were signed if it weren't pointed out. I would feel much worse for these fans if this was the first time that this had happened but its sadly too common now - auto pen or a scrawl. In addition to the signed CD turning up unsigned or with no disc inside. They need to start learning to stop handing their money over for this scam and it might stop happening. I've never paid for a signed copy and never will. The only way I'm ever treasuring a signed copy is if the artist is right in front of me putting pen to paper at an album signing. 

21 hours ago, Ophelia said:

she put her entire rodrigussy into these 4-5 random doodles and stopped gaf afterwards

 

 

The way I'd feel super special if I was the recipient of one of these when you know how the others turned out. Watch those ones get re-sold and become a super rare must have. It's a really bad look on her that she put so much personalisation into the first few and then clearly gave up.

5 hours ago, high culture said:

Mine wasn't too bad. I'm still mad about Hilary Duff sending me an autopen signature earlier this year

Just want to clarify this is a joke: that's what you get for paying for a signed album from Hilary Duff!  Sorry, I just couldn't resist that temptation! Just a joke, no hate! 

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25 minutes ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Just want to clarify this is a joke: that's what you get for paying for a signed album from Hilary Duff!  Sorry, I just couldn't resist that temptation! Just a joke, no hate! 

It's ok. I did not love her new album and it left an especially bad taste in my mouth when she used autopen. However she was the first musician I stanned in 2003 and I wanted to own her signature 🥲 which isn't unreasonable of me

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