Music starts to sound different if you think of every collaboration as an audience-building partnership (this is also a good way to look at celebrity couples, but that’s neither here nor there). Rosalía, though, is on a collab kick and each one slaps harder than the last. Her latest is with Tokischa, a “fearless, iconoclastic, and sex-positive star” from the DR, whose audience deserves Rosalía if they don’t already have her in orbit. So do you. Listen here.
Also, to continue on our bonus-track theme this week, please enjoy Young Thug’s “Tick Tock,” brought to you by the letter “C.”
Have you heard the one about the Wall Street influencers who make more than bankers? It’s is juicy any way you slice it: In the public eye, the only person who deserves their salary less than a banker is an influencer, but here are all these kids making Tik Tok videos on investing, raking in half a million a year from Betterment, Wealthfront, Fundrise, and whatever other finance app is looking for hot, young users. And when you look at it that way, bankers and influencers are actually the same: what is value if not the potential to make other people rich?
Of course, you don’t have to know about finance to make more than a banker. Take it from Brooke Castillo, founder of The Life Coach School, which in 2020 collected $37m in gross revenue from people feeling unfulfilled enough to leave their careers behind and instead seek meaning in helping other people self-actualize ( “The life of your dreams is one click away” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩). Only hiccup being that the school is maybe a sham. A bunch of people who paid for the courses have reported that they never even got feedback on the work that made them “certified life coaches” (would you believe that this industry is unregulated?), and when they heard back from the administration, they were told the problem was not the instruction but their attitude, which is apparently also the main thing you’re supposed to say to people as a life coach? Real Yoga To The People vibes.
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