Just last night he did a 45 min Instagram Live (which is still available for a few hours) diving into the Cubase project of "Pretty Please" off the new Dua Lipa album.
AFAIK he has done this a few times already in the past few weeks. A Q&A is also permanently available in his highlights.
He is cloudology on Instagram, and if you have no idea who he is, here is his Wikipedia entry listing some of his work.
We did that!! 😍 What y'all think ?
He is the one who produced many PopHeads favorite songs like:
• Don't Start Now
• New Rules
• Bad Liar
• Souvenir
• If I'm Dancing
and many more!!
Ive been seeing trends wherein bassists will cover this song and adding their own fills to it and i must say, it is great for the bassist community, especially during this lockdown.
In hindsight, its easy to dismiss Dua Lipa's music cos she seems like the poster child for wannabe Victoria's Secret models but if we see past that and focus on the trend that the song was able to put out, its actually quite great. If it makes people want to pick up the bass and learn something, then I say its good. Heck for all we know, this could be a gateway bassline for starting bassists to learn that style and dwell deeper into that type of bass playing.
The whole thing is just unbelievable, overall. I mean if somebody were to tell me last year that someone like Dua Lipa can put out a song that makes people want to pick up the bass, i wouldnt believe it. I cant remember the last famous modern pop song with a great bassline, so kuddos to Ian and Warner for putting out such.
Lastly, I noticed that many of the biggest mainstream hits such as Hello, Chandelier, New Rules etc. were produced by guys who do not really seem to be known to the wider audience like Ian Kirkpatrick or Greg Kurstin. You will hear about them if you watch Grammy awards or read Wikipedia song descriptions, but otherwise the chance is probably pretty small because they don't even seem to publish their music. The question is: how did they come to that point that they can work with the biggest artists in the industry ? I mean: how do you become such a successful music producer if you don't publish your music !? Is it then just all about contacts with record labels ?
https://www.forexlive.com/news/!/us-september-ppi-yy-vs-87-expected-20211014
>Prior was 8.3% y/y
>PPI ex food and energy 6.8% vs 7.1% expected
>m/m PPI +0.5% vs +0.6% expected
>m/m ex food and energy +0.2% vs +0.5% expected
This is the highest since at least November 2010 on the headline but the ex food and energy numbers are on the soft side. That highlights that pipeline price stresses might not be quite as high as advertised. Services PPI rose only modestly (helped by a contraction in prices for transportation and storage)...
40 percent of the advance in PPI goods can be attributed to a 2.8-percent jump in prices for final demand energy.
What do we think, inflation Bulls and Bears?
Heckova job, Jerome Powell, Yellen the Felon, & Brandon.
Prices at the wholesale level surged by 9.7 percent for all of 2021, setting an annual record and providing further evidence that inflation is still hammering all levels of the U.S. economy.
The producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, did slow on a monthly basis, rising just 0.2 percent in December compared with 1 percent in November, the Labor Department said Thursday.
Thursday's report came a day after the government reported that consumer inflation jumped 7 percent in December from a year earlier, the highest such inflation rate since 1982.
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