Most extremely successful people seem like they work 18-20 hour days, always brag about not getting much sleep, have interviews all the time, deal with fame which comes with lots of stress, etc.
It only makes sense that being on TRT would give them this energy to just deal with their productiveness and time management without taking naps so often. And then the confidence that comes from Test would help with constant interviews, concerts, events they have to speak at. I know some people are just extroverted, but this goes beyond that. How are these 40 year old actors keeping up with all this? I know that most people in Hollywood or in the public lens are on finasteride, for obvious reasons.
Im just wondering if there is some secret society for the men, where they all do TRT in their regimen. Even some of these kids who are rappers/singers are 20 years old and doing concerts in front of hundreds of thousands of people. Without drugs helping, it seems like having enhanced testosterone would give them the drive to pull it off confidently.
I remember watching an interview and someone asked I think Elon Musk or The Rock how the fuck they even have time to do all these things, and they obviously gave some cliche vague answer. but it really seems they are fueled on TRT for the ambition/energy it gives them.
Now everybody is jumping on the bandwagon.
I repeat: the Spotify CEO was out of place and I think he worded it wrong, but:
If being a musician is your profession, you honestly can't complain when you're putting an album out and then just hang in your pool for two years, then get in the studio to record another album and repeat.
I always though it was weird when I was a kid reading band interviews (anyone else addicted to interviews?) and the artist would just candidly say like oh we have just been traveling and enjoying X, doing this and that and we got into the studio a few months ago.
Imagine the privilege you had to have to be able to work like that.
And now, with big artists putting music constantly (The Weeknd has 8 albums in 8 years, for example), of course bands who are still working in the old model can't make money. This what I think the Spotify CEO was trying to say.
Because the newer big artists own their masters, they are putting music out constantly and as quick as possible. Just like Prince wanted to do in the 80's and couldn't.
A band like Muse putting an album every 3 years will get buried in that, and the money will stop rolling in 6 months after the album came out.
Any genre of music
My personal pick is Rage against the machine 4 studio albums all packed with jams
He finds his composer.
The other musician replies with "I already know that, why are you repeating that?"
"You know, just for the record."
They’re charging him with lute behavior.
(Whaddaya think? I just came up with it not two minutes ago and it seemed like such a groaner that I thought it would find a good home here)
He has to play by ear
The title pretty much sums it all. I would like you to share an underrated rock musicians in the previous century or early 2000s, before 2010.
We see it everywhere… Zuck is a crook, Jamie Dimon is a crook, etc. Not disagreeing with those statements at all—wealth inequality is insane and a serious problem, and guys like that are actively propping themselves up at the expense of the masses.
But why do we not think of Mahomes and Ashton Kutcher the same way? The fact that athletes and celebrities amass such an insane level of wealth and add very little to the concrete advancement of society is obscene to me and should be looked at with the same righteous anger that we direct to big business for creating wealth inequality in America.
If I had to ask my own question, it would be Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon fame, it angers me that such an incredible singer-songwriter can be that awful of a person.
The cast, made up of high-profile action stars, were choosing their roles.
Sylvester Stallone went "I want to be Mozart!". Bruce Willis said "Then I'll be Beethoven!" and Jean -Claude Van Damme, "I'll go with Tchaikovsky".
After a moment of silence, Arnold Schwarzenegger stood up, looked at everyone in the room, and said "I'll be Bach".
I told him violins is not the answer.
He became a lightning conductor.
Seriously if you’re one person pressing a button occasionally and not playing one real instrument or even singing, you are not a musician. However if you’re actually spinning physical vinyl and have a singer/rapper you can call yourself a musical group.
For a short while last year, I worked as a team lead for one of the app development teams for one of the food delivery apps. The entire team had been working from home since the start of the pandemic and had had a bunch of remote-only people join, so they were spread across several time zones, but we made it work because we thought this was how things were going to be going forward.
After making several billion dollars from people like us working from home and ordering delivery, around the end of summer, the entire C-suite decided that COVID was pretty much over (spoiler: it definitely wasn't and all my people knew it) and that we would all be heading back to the office part time, gradually increasing to full time. Now, this place had pretty high turnover, so most of us had never been to any of the offices since we had been hired. We had been told when we were hired that any return to work policy would be super flexible and it turned out it really wasn't. Moreover, those in cities without an office, even though they were hired as remote workers, were expected to come up with a 1-year plan about how they were going to move without any assistance or compensation to a city with an office.
Needless to say, my team and many others lost their collective shit over this new policy. So the CEO started doing town halls with the other executives to pump the "collaboration" and "team-building" aspects of being back in the office. During one of the Q&A sessions, someone finally asked something like "I was hired remote and I don't live in a city with an office. I don't want to uproot my family. Will you make exceptions for people like me?". To which the CEO replied "Look. This is what we're doing and what we think is best for the company. If you want to work from home, my suggestion is to go work somewhere else".
What happened next was the digital equivalent of the air being let out of a balloon. The company slack channel conversations ground to a halt and became virtual ghost towns, going from spirited conversations to the bare minimum of functional courtesies. The attendance at company-wide meetings fell by half and within a month, there was a veritable flurry of resignations, including mine. Prior to this debacle, we had already been paid below market rates, so this Fuck You from the CEO was just the match being lit on an already pretty sizable tank of gas.
By the time I left, the team that started at 8 people was down to just 2 deciding to stay. And six mo
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