Kayne West – SIDE-LINE https://www.side-line.com Industrial, electro, EBM, post-punk, darkwave news magazine Thu, 03 Feb 2022 17:08:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.side-line.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-side-line-logo-png-32x32.png Kayne West – SIDE-LINE https://www.side-line.com 32 32 Marilyn Manson again working with Kanye West despite ongoing rape accusations https://www.side-line.com/marilyn-manson-again-working-with-kanye-west-despite-ongoing-rape-accusations/ Thu, 03 Feb 2022 17:08:09 +0000 https://www.side-line.com/?p=35199 Kanye West, who nowadays goes through life as Ye, is working with Marilyn Manson after...]]>
Marilyn Manson to record new album, release expected for Valentine's Day 2017

Kanye West, who nowadays goes through life as Ye, is working with Marilyn Manson after all for his new album “Donda 2”. Last year, the two already joined forces, which caused the rapper a lot of criticism since Manson has been accused of sexual abuse by several women.

One of these women is his former partner, Westworld actress Evan Rachel Wood. She accused Manson of abuse and manipulation last year. After that, other women came forward with accusations against the musician. “Game of Thrones” actress Esmé Bianco for instance is sued Warner for assault, abuse and human trafficking.

But back to the musical duo. For his earlier album “Donda”, Ye made the song “Jail Pt 2” together with Manson. “Donda” producer Digital Nas has told the entertainment magazine ‘Rolling Stone’ that he often sees the musician in the studio: “Marilyn works there on ‘Donda 2’ like every single day.”

Here’s what “Jail Pt 2” sounds like…

]]> Tidal to close down – a lot of labels still waiting reporting (and money!) https://www.side-line.com/tidal-to-close-down-a-lot-of-labels-still-waiting-reporting-and-money/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:00:11 +0000 http://www.side-line.com/?p=13321 According to the Norwegian outlet Dagens Næringsliv, Tidal (a subscription-based music streaming service of lossless...]]>

New (not so good) study says spending on digital formats and services will overtake physical formats this year

According to the Norwegian outlet Dagens Næringsliv, Tidal (a subscription-based music streaming service of lossless audio) is close to shutting down as it has just enough money left “to last another six months”. The news doesn’t come as a surprise, the start-up has been going from bad to worse since it started.

The company, fronted by rapper Jay Z, gathered a staggering $44 million in losses in 2016 and has had trouble getting traction from day one, although they keep on claiming they are doing well. ‘Well’ is subjective, the service only has 1.2 million subscribers (and not 3 million as Jay Z always claimed).

And there’s more. The claims that it pays the highest percentage of royalties to music artists and songwriters within the music streaming market can be taken with a big grain of salt as it has a very bad track record when it comes to reporting sales, let alone pay, especially to indie labels. But not only indie labels, Kayne West for instance terminated his contract with Tidal, claiming that the service owed him $3 million.

]]> When political correctness goes in overdrive you get this… the victim: belgian electropop act Bazart https://www.side-line.com/when-political-correctness-goes-in-overdrive-you-get-this-the-victim-belgian-electropop-act-bazart/ Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:30:53 +0000 http://www.side-line.com/?p=12841 Drama in Belgium’s Twitterland as pictures of a dressed up Daan Schepers and Simon Nuytten...]]>

When political correctness goes in overdrive you get this... the victim: belgian electropop act Bazart

Drama in Belgium’s Twitterland as pictures of a dressed up Daan Schepers and Simon Nuytten from the electropop act Bazart turned up on social media and caused some drama.

All started with a tweet from an anonymous tweep – especially known for her trout pictweets – called Héloïse. She decided to call out Schepers for ‘blackfacing’ during a Halloween party. Blackfacing literally means performing in blackface makeup, but it has since been recuperated by extreme leftwing activist to turn whatever they don’t like into ‘it’s-a-racism-thing’ even when nothing bad is intended to start with.

Schepers and his girlfriend Paulien Riemis turned up at a Halloween party dressed up as Kayne West and Kim Kardashian (including a cushion of course) as you can see below. Nuytten (in t-shirt saying Bazalt with an L instead of an R) and his girlfriend Olga Leyers showed up dressed as Chinese (Yellowfacing according to critics). In a panic reaction both members deleted the pictures, but once on the social media, it of course stays alive as you can see below.

Even the press jumped on it calling it racist because of click beat reasons of course… Judge for yourself. Political correctness going in overdrive is what we make of it.

Other fans see through the commotion and wonder what the problem is with the Halloween pics.

Note that especially in Belgium and the Netherlands we have a lot less the habit in calling whatever racist – especially this – because we have the good old Saint-Nicolas tradition including every kid’s best friend, the blackfaced Nicodemus.

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