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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 26, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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Alice in Chains’ Dirt is a great depressing hard rock album

I'm a tik tok user, and there are a lot of micro-artists on there. It's interesting to see the different marketing strategies they employ. A common one is to post the same sound (that is one of their songs) over and over again in different videos with text overlaid like, "Reposting again in the hopes that my audience finds me." Something like that. Another strategy is only posting the catchiest part of your song (often unfinished), and build anticipation that way for the eventual release.

A couple examples of the latter strategy off the top of my head are Third Class Citizen by Calva Louise (https://youtube.com/watch?v=nyEw5ABOiOs) and Grief by Flake (https://youtube.com/watch?v=zSUHPYTStkQ).

Unfortunately, I'm almost always disappointed by the final product, but it is an interesting development to me in general.

I like some of the music in your list, but don't recognize many artists, so I'll have to check them out.