Welcome to another weekend edition of the Meme Accountant. Today we discover all about the Bulgarian Who legally scammed Spotify for $1M. Simon making deification sounds, but looking like a fat cat: 2 (Actually imitating Tom York) Boi with the Blaze: 2 Script slaps: 1 Script taps: 7 Woo-HOO! I'm a college Man: 2 Simon's transformer is broken: 1 Pain in the arse: 1 Simon's ETA heater gets a kiss (again): 1 Simon's ETA heater gets a slap:: 4 What's that Apple logo doing in a Microsoft Meme?: 1 Allegedly: 13 Those bastards lied to me: 1 Kid saying yes: 1 Simon having trouble talking: 35 Simon shouting at Danny in the basement: 1 Drilling through the F*ing walls: 1 Oh for F*s sake: 1 Simon blows his brains out: 1 But its against the law tho: 1 F* you Paul, pay me Bish: 1 Uh...: 1 F* Spotify: 255 Fought a bit and then surrendered: 1 I'm F*ing Broke, Dude: 1 Danny Why??: 1 Commie Superman: 1 Danny Disappoints Simon and Sam has to sit through this (as do I): 1 #metoo Dick-in-cider (I bet that's fizzy): 4 Gay He-Man: 3 Ken Leee: 2 Kvetch to "Soulful Music": 1 Yoko thoughts: 1 Penis fly Trap: 1 That sounds a bit far fetched: 1 (Ya don't say?) Fake News Trump: 1 1,000 Sh*t tracks that no-one wanted: 1 Apparently this was legal: 1 Spoiler alert: 1 Let me tell you a story about Spotify: 1 Delete. Delete. Delete. Delete. Delete. Delete. Delete.: 1 Am I breaking the law: 1 Smart: 1 Sh*t content: 1 (you can't mean Business Blaze, can you????) That's going to be a lot harder: 1 (that's what she said Simon....) This makes me want to deafen myself: 1 A bit dickish if they did: 1 They are completely ok with being absolute Bell-ends: 2 Yes (who was that woman?): 1 The Pirate Bay - "terrible": 1 No Sh*t Dany: 1 You can F*-off on this one: 1 F* right off in the comments: 1 Purple dancing "thing": 1 Bonus Spotify Scam "OOOoooh": 1 Wolfpack: 1 So much that is better than Yoko Ono: 1 Stay Classy: 1 Tulibu Dibu: 1 Douchooooo: 1 Meme Count total: 368 (Do we get overtime for this being the weekend?) Simon is stumbling over his own words a lot this video. Hope he doesn't have an illness of some kind Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah. And that was just the introduction! Don't worry folks, Danny is just mocking Simon about his lack of British popular culture knowledge. Simon doesn't know the Cider Drinker song? What? He claims to have gone to a British University but I very much doubt THAT!!!! We used to down pints in a drinking game to that song when I was at University. Several bins were used as puke containers after that too. Oh the times spent at institutions of higher learning...
Poor Danny thinks he's being clever inserting clues to his servitude and location in the script. We're on to you Danny. It's not going to happen. Keep writing the scripts. Allegedly.
I've been watching Mr Simon for some time now on all 478 of his you tube channels and I must say his descent into madness is absolutely fascinating, and not entirely unentertaining.
Maker is the biggest one I've heard of. I'm not sure why he's pissed at them but I can guess. They take about 30% of your revenue after google takes it's 40%, in return, they help protect you against Copywrite claims. So the income breakdown for every dollar is as follows. About 40% goes to youtube, 20% goes to Maker and the content creator gets 40% (allegedly). When my channel was active it was worth it to sell out to maker, because they would go to bat for me in the case of Copywrite claims and strikes, which provided security and peace of mind to a very small creator. I only made $200 off youtube at my peak so they can have their $40 a year. In Simon's case, he has multiple highly successful youtube channels so I can see the issue with a big company taking 20% of your earnings. If he can afford all that cocaine (allegedly) he can afford his own Copywrite lawyer.
Got an idea for a Video thumbs up this one peeps you know Simon will lose his shit doing it. Video idea is DRUM ROLL!!!! How Multichannel Networks made their money and how it all went wrong!!!! LMAO
And both sound like (probably Sam's) hairball barfing cat! I have to back up & replay so often from laughing so hard...my neighbor thinks I should be in a psych ward from all the random swearing and hiccoughing and hysteria that goes on around here!
Fun Fact, that cat was tripping acid. Was a really old YT video that last i looked (3 years ago) was taken down. Cat is just freaking out saying "no no no no" over and over again.
That's four thousands of a DOLLAR. Four tenths of a cent. It is NOT four thousandths of a cent. [Your high horse dies; you come crashing to the ground.] Your move:
Its ya Boi wit da Blaze! Makes my day better instantly!!!!!! I need to quit slapping my desk everytime Simon slaps the script!!!! The untold amount of coffee that has been spilled!!!
Yes. There is a reason why a record label executive had access to Spotify's "confidential" list. And that reason is because record companies pulled this kind of *bleep* with Spotify before in order to corner the profits from the platform and get their artist more recommended hits and have a bragging point in the media. ALLEGEDLY. ua-cam.com/video/Z_y_zeql7pc/v-deo.html
Weirdly enough spotify has made me start buying music again - mainly due to them having huge enough gaps in their catalogue that I end up having to track down the paid for digital download on a semi-regular basis (I spend about 50-80€ per year on digital download albums). (Going on a rant) So to anyone that argues that spotify is "access to all the recorded music" - expand your listening horizons. (And don't even get me started on the regional availability crap either, or that spotify really should add an option to list music their database is aware of but is missing so that you can stop wondering if you remembered the artist and title correctly, and then we have the entire thing with that they usually only have the latest edition of each album (in general the remastered and remixed albums suck - seems like they (usually) mastered them for el-crappo in-ears rather than studio-grade monitors and studio-grade headphones), and then we also don't have the regional variations either (if I listen to an austrian artist I usually tend to prefer the austrian releases of albums rather than the international versions (or the US versions - which tend to emphasis six remixes that are bass-heavy rather than adding obscure songs))).
Herr U Sadly most of the music I like is Japanese, so if I can’t get it on Spotify then there’s no real legal way to get it that I can then play in Australia. 😕
Simon: "0.004 cents- so basically, like, half a cent"... Everybody with a basic understanding of how numbers work: *raises eyebrows* I think I know why that company was able to convince Simon to accept such a rubbish deal!
@@simdimdim getting a cent confused with dollar or pound in the same sentence as the thing he had literally just read it out loud is still kinda bad, especially since this video was edited before being released. It also diminishes his point- since half a cent for each click is pretty good; 30,000 views would get him $150. Since he then goes on to say that 30,000 UA-cam views gets him about $120, thinking that half a cent per view is an unnaceptable amount means that he's settled for a worse one without even realising it. Like- he implies that he wouldn't accept half a cent per view on Spotify because it's a terrible deal, and then says that UA-cam pays him less than half a cent per view and says he "feels pretty well compensated" for it.
Ok, why calling is "scam"? Is it strictly by the rules? By the Spotify rules? Does the owner lied anyone? He paid for all of his accounts fair and square. There is nothing in the T&C against playing music without listening it. I mean, the guy is freaking genius, who used not very well designed system to make "some" money. P.S. And yes, it will be really, really, really hard to sue anyone here in Bulgaria. Especially, if he got a million dollars. :P P.P.S. Allegedly.
I love that as well as getting that horribly wrong, and implying that half a cent per stream is a terrible deal, he goes on to say that 30,000 UA-cam views will earn him about $120, and that he feels pretty well compensated by it. Basic mathematics is clearly difficult for him, and I think I understand how that company was able to get him to accept such a bad deal (allegedly).
The selling point for bands to go to digital services was that they would finally get paid for actual sales. As apposed to the old system where record companies would press 1 million copies of a record but claim to have only sold 100,000.
Oh my god, Danny knows about Penis Flytrap! :D That's amazing! I have their tales of terror album, but I sort of assume that I'm one of 3 fans that appreciate women punk bands from the 80's. Also, a fan of 45 grave, Dinah Cancers primary band. But hah! That really IS obscure. Hat's off to you, Danny! Queen Bitch is a David Bowie cover though, but by now I am going to assume that Simon don't know who that is either! ^_~ Edit: Had to edit out that it was a vinyl, because I was lying! It is a cd! ...Does it even exist as a vinyl? If so, do I need it? Or are there limits to my pretentiousness? Maybe I should just buy a Gloryhammer album instead, to cool down the inner hipster.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, always amazing videos, Danny's the channel's number one LEGEND, allegedly and all that, always entertaining, Sam rocks, Brian rolls, the real star today was that cup of coffee. Also, John Lennon wasn't a great ... person, let alone business man, if he said: "No, thanks every other woman on the planet, I'll take this screaming japanese thing all my friends hate!".
Watch for a note under the door. If I were your neighbour, I’d be really tempted to just slip a “WTF” under the door And because of the opening, I was expecting the video to be about a Bulgarian who put rip off Yoko Ono music on Spotify
I say it was an scam, you can scam someone while being within the law. Overpriced HDMI cables is an good example :) Spottily did not thought of bots so they did not check for that or had it in the terms. People used bots to manipulate the internet 20 years ago.
Spotify is all over these types of scams now. A friend of mine had his band's Spotify account suspended because their bots detected suspicious behaviour. Someone had put his music on repeat and must have accidentally left it running 24/7. Spotify assumed it was a spam account, but it all got sorted in the end.
Fair play. I have no time for Pandora or Spotify because they are legally obligated to never play the song you want to hear, just random songs that are related in some vague way.
My biggest problem with Spotify is the lack of a music upload feature like Google/UA-cam music, considering it may have missing or ‘incorrect’ versions (e.g. live versions) of songs. Main reason I’ve kept it is because I get it ‘free’ through my phone network and Google/UA-cam isn’t on Alexa.
Wow. The Dickens Cider was a skit from my favorite drive time morning radio show here in the States, Bob and Tom. Wasn’t expecting to hear that lol. Have whole CDs if you want Em Simon 🤣🤣
YES! Someone else who caught that. Simon, you would love these. Morning syndicated comedy show, only music played were social comedy guests (like DaVinci's Notebook, a barbershop quartet a capella group with a sing called Enormous Penis). There were several Dicken's Cider ads over the years. Funny story: I'm from the town they started in, and used to play at the bar they met at, albeit 20 years later, when they finally returned to the area on air. After they were paired, they took a 44 ratings share and the competing stations made a compilation tape of their stiff and sent it to a program director national convention.
This actually destroyed one of my favorite authors on Kindle. Had bots flipping pages on Kindle unlimited. They didn't even give the authors information about what happened until it was too late. No information about how they decided they were doing it. I'm sure some people did know and pay the botters, but not necessarily all of them did.
I’d like to see a Blaze about these multichannel networks (never heard of them before) and why people sign up to them, then how they allegedly screw creators over.
I just watched the "I Am A Cider Drinker" music video and I don't have words. I am so curious about Danny's eccentricities that you should do a Biographics on him. I can't be the only one by now. I mean who can reference such an obscure "cocaine induced fever dream" of a song like that? Their life has to be intriguing even if the life they lead isn't so Ian Flemming'esq.
This is why I like to use Bandcamp. If I find an artist I like, I can pay a small amount of money for either a song or pay a little more for the album... and the money goes directly to the artist.
My daughter just walked in on me watching this video and I was at the part where Simon is doing his impersonation of Tom York ... she looked me dead in the eyes and said “why? Just why mum?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 thank you Mr Whistler 🤣🤣🤣
Haha, dafuq with the end credits Sam? Great episode team, and this is actually one I'm going to share, because my relatives use Spotify and don't know why I hate it (and screw them if they don't understand the in-jokes, they'll have to watch ALL of Business Blaze and give you that sweet sweet watch time!).
spotify still has security flaws, like sometimes you'll suddenly notice trashy songs/albums/playlists you've never listened to in your 'recent' tab - bot-played on a "web client" as soon as you turn off your client, or sometimes hijacking/replacing your currently playing list. annoyingly, the only thing you can do against it right now is to go to your account page, disconnect all clients, change your password, disconnect all clients again, and re-authorize your actual client/app. *again* .
Simon knows Macklemore, and Taylor (and the Creep that Radiohead is), but not of the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin?! Inconceivable! 😣 #AgreeWTheBieberThing 😝
Simon, how about doing an episode for Biographics about Terry Fox? He lost his leg to cancer and ran from Vancouver to the eastern side of Canada as a fund raiser for cancer research. It would be a great episode.
16:30 One more thing to factor in is that there’s lots of ‘one month free trial’ offers for Spotify, so especially if they used those disposable credit cards you mention they might not have had to pay the upfront $10.
One day I'll reach the impeccable meme level of being mentioned in a video. That is my declaration! Not sure how yet... I'll just keep being nice I think xD 🎩👌
@@Pennywise-nx4jz Generally, not always. He's forgotten a name and even then mentioned that fact, at least once on BB. I also know that he occasionally has forgotten, and then not mentioned it at all, at least once. He did make sure not to say it was his idea in that instance though. Some others if he doesn't say who may be from other people, but idk that for sure. Especially with all the different shit going, it's super easy for things to get lost. Or ignored 🤣🤣🤣
I'm a musician - and I don't believe that the streaming services are paying enough to the actual artists. The record companies have historically screwed musicians. My particular preference is Jazz music - other than Miles Davis (who was taken advantage of by the record companies earlier in his career) who basically wrote his own ticket because he was such a stubborn, narcissistic ass, pretty much all Jazz musicians - who didn't form their own recording companies - were horribly screwed. And of course, everyone knows that the pop/rock world has historically been cheated by managers and record companies. My only thought that might semi-excuse the corporate assholes is that streaming could almost be considered to be equivalent to radio stations. Although, with the radio you can't choose which songs you listen to and FM radio is way below the high definition quality of most streamed music. If anyone knows about how much musicians are paid for radio broadcasts of their songs, I'd really appreciate knowing. Thanks - and thank you Simon for covering subjects like this.
A tour of silent music? Did it consist of invisible artists playing the silent music? For only $100 and you can get a ticket to my silent concert with nobody playing music, at no location, at no specific time. The ticket is written in invisible ink.
The Macklemore & Ryan Lewis song is called "Jimmy Iovine" in which he ended with "Rather die a starving artist than succeed at getting fucked" from the album The Heist from 2012 and 2013. For the like 4 people who were curious, and Simon :)
Artist labels: we like money Also artist label: we like money but we want more Artist label in the back room: if we don't get more money then we don't want any at all Artist label: we like money we will go with that
there's a classical song 4'33" where the instrumentalists are completely silent for that whole time. Dude named John Cage wrote it in the 50s. You're meant to listen to the ambient noise in some zen sort of way.
Aah. This remimded me about time 2010 when finnish people started trolling spotify by putting repeat Kari Tapio - Juna kulkee, It peaked at number 13 at most playd list. There is silverling to this story, it restarted Kari Tapio´s career, sadly him passed away December 2010.
Legit Deer in the headlights as soon as this video started. Ty Simon for leaving me speechless when there's not even anyone here to talk to. I love you for all you do!
Gone are the days of sitting in your bedroom, cassette recorder right next to your transistor radio, fingers hovering above the record & play buttons, waiting.... patiently.... for your favorite song to come on. Hoping! The DJ won't talk over the beginning & you dont miss too much of the song!
Personally I both hate and love digital media. Its helpful, useful and doesnt take up physical space. But, the problem is companies can taken it/ discontinue it any time, making it useless.
Still gotta do a BioGraphics on Richard Wagner, Antonin Artaud, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, August Wilson, Eugene O'Neill, Konstantin Stanislavski, Anton Chekhov, Michael Chekhov, Edward Albee, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Georg Duke of Saxe-Meiningen(The FIRST Director)
As someone who grew up buying many, many, many records, cassettes, and CDs, one thing I love about Spotify is not having the crap-shoot of buying an album of 12 tracks and ending up only liking 4 songs. CDs were better for skipping, but cassettes... *eye twitch*
The nice thing about having music and movies and games on physical media is that you actually OWN the thing and can resell it if you want. Digital is just a license to listen, watch, or play until the license holders say "Yeah, I think I want to just piss everyone off. Rights revoked!"
Well, I've watched this. Now every corner of my screen will be filled with offerings for some weird collections of sounds that are pawned off on the young as music. It may take a dozen or so views of the lissome ladies of Shanz III (Шанз) to reverse the process.
I just buy albums off Google play. I don't appreciate Spotify assuming what songs I'd like to hear when I specifically search for songs I want to hear.
I have never seen a Terms of Service without a clause that basically says they can disregard their own rules if, at their sole discretion, they believe the rules have been abused. I have also never seen a Terms of Service that grants the same liberty to the user.
Assuming someone already mentioned this, but the Dicken's Cider skit was from Bob and Tom, a syndicated talk show in the states that's been running for a few decades now. Lots of clever double entendres :)
Welcome to another weekend edition of the Meme Accountant.
Today we discover all about the Bulgarian Who legally scammed Spotify for $1M.
Simon making deification sounds, but looking like a fat cat: 2 (Actually imitating Tom York)
Boi with the Blaze: 2
Script slaps: 1
Script taps: 7
Woo-HOO! I'm a college Man: 2
Simon's transformer is broken: 1
Pain in the arse: 1
Simon's ETA heater gets a kiss (again): 1
Simon's ETA heater gets a slap:: 4
What's that Apple logo doing in a Microsoft Meme?: 1
Allegedly: 13
Those bastards lied to me: 1
Kid saying yes: 1
Simon having trouble talking: 35
Simon shouting at Danny in the basement: 1
Drilling through the F*ing walls: 1
Oh for F*s sake: 1
Simon blows his brains out: 1
But its against the law tho: 1
F* you Paul, pay me Bish: 1
Uh...: 1
F* Spotify: 255
Fought a bit and then surrendered: 1
I'm F*ing Broke, Dude: 1
Danny Why??: 1
Commie Superman: 1
Danny Disappoints Simon and Sam has to sit through this (as do I): 1
#metoo
Dick-in-cider (I bet that's fizzy): 4
Gay He-Man: 3
Ken Leee: 2
Kvetch to "Soulful Music": 1
Yoko thoughts: 1
Penis fly Trap: 1
That sounds a bit far fetched: 1 (Ya don't say?)
Fake News Trump: 1
1,000 Sh*t tracks that no-one wanted: 1
Apparently this was legal: 1
Spoiler alert: 1
Let me tell you a story about Spotify: 1
Delete. Delete. Delete. Delete. Delete. Delete. Delete.: 1
Am I breaking the law: 1
Smart: 1
Sh*t content: 1 (you can't mean Business Blaze, can you????)
That's going to be a lot harder: 1 (that's what she said Simon....)
This makes me want to deafen myself: 1
A bit dickish if they did: 1
They are completely ok with being absolute Bell-ends: 2
Yes (who was that woman?): 1
The Pirate Bay - "terrible": 1
No Sh*t Dany: 1
You can F*-off on this one: 1
F* right off in the comments: 1
Purple dancing "thing": 1
Bonus Spotify Scam "OOOoooh": 1
Wolfpack: 1
So much that is better than Yoko Ono: 1
Stay Classy: 1
Tulibu Dibu: 1
Douchooooo: 1
Meme Count total: 368 (Do we get overtime for this being the weekend?)
Simon is stumbling over his own words a lot this video. Hope he doesn't have an illness of some kind Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah.
And that was just the introduction!
Don't worry folks, Danny is just mocking Simon about his lack of British popular culture knowledge.
Simon doesn't know the Cider Drinker song? What? He claims to have gone to a British University but I very much doubt THAT!!!!
We used to down pints in a drinking game to that song when I was at University. Several bins were used as puke containers after that too. Oh the times spent at institutions of higher learning...
The legend we should all aspire to be
Brian Richman how many times do you have to re-watch his videos to make these comments you are a legend allegedly!!!!
Brian i want you to know that i absolutely love u and you should hit up simon and get on the payroll
You are doing God's work Brian!
Legend
Simon's facial hair is gradually transitioning from "hipster" to "cult leader"
Soon he will achieve the Rasputin
Someone should send him an over the top 1980-era Soviet Uniform.
I’m all in if he starts a cult
A bald Admiral General Aladeen is more like it.
Id love to start a cult one day
“Mommy, why is the guy next door yelling again?”
“Don’t worry about him, he is just some weirdo that talks to his heater all day”
Poor Danny thinks he's being clever inserting clues to his servitude and location in the script.
We're on to you Danny. It's not going to happen. Keep writing the scripts.
Allegedly.
"Makes me want to stand next to a Saturn V rocket". Now Simon, I think you're just mega-projecting.
"people breaking into the office"
Quick! Danny is tunnelling his way out!
...hiding the hole behind a poster of Yoko Ono!
DawnMarie Skora ......I would dig a hole to hide a poster of Yoko Ono!
ALLEGEDLY
Nah that was Brian getting out. That's why he hasn't been here in ages.
I've been watching Mr Simon for some time now on all 478 of his you tube channels and I must say his descent into madness is absolutely fascinating, and not entirely unentertaining.
"It's not like I do anything but Blaze anyway"
same, buddy. same
"And by Blaze I mean work"
....oh....yea....work. That's what I meant too.
Awww, I wanna get paid to Blaze tooooo!
*sigh*
I miss my old job.... in.... 'agriculture'...
.....
Allegedly.
fourtwenty. business blaze it. and with that... I mean work of course.
Damn, too late to leave this comment lol
Why would you just ‘cause you came into a room full of people Blazin? 😎
My Dr. asked me if I smoke once and my answer was "smoke what?" He meant cigs though.
Who else scrolled down to the comments at 6:19 to see if anyone did mention who Simon was talking about?
Still don't have a f**king clue btw.
Believe it was Defy Media (backed by Viacom and Lionsgate)... allegedly
Me, exactly why I'm here right now
Same
@@hankthepatriot3733 It's allegedly allegedly Defy.
@@RichieK2005 allegedly, allegedly 😉
Simon: "Maybe it's because I'm not a horrible person"
Danny: "There is hope for unleashing my chains!"
Never. Danny has to keep writing until the channel dies. Or the authorities catch on to what is allegedly happening.
Not horrible?! ALLEGEDLY
Don’t get ahead of yourself...
Simon, The Breaker Of Chains
@@oliverc.griffin1304 I actually heard he's a knob. Allegedly.
Simon: *hates working for a multichannel network* I know! I'll be my own multichannel network!
I'm still curious which MCN he was shading.
ALLEGEDLY
Maker is the biggest one I've heard of. I'm not sure why he's pissed at them but I can guess.
They take about 30% of your revenue after google takes it's 40%, in return, they help protect you against Copywrite claims. So the income breakdown for every dollar is as follows.
About 40% goes to youtube, 20% goes to Maker and the content creator gets 40% (allegedly).
When my channel was active it was worth it to sell out to maker, because they would go to bat for me in the case of Copywrite claims and strikes, which provided security and peace of mind to a very small creator. I only made $200 off youtube at my peak so they can have their $40 a year.
In Simon's case, he has multiple highly successful youtube channels so I can see the issue with a big company taking 20% of your earnings.
If he can afford all that cocaine (allegedly) he can afford his own Copywrite lawyer.
@@YbotPoweredGaming he could've been with Defy Media. They REALLY fucked the channels on their network before they folded.
Got an idea for a Video thumbs up this one peeps you know Simon will lose his shit doing it. Video idea is DRUM ROLL!!!! How Multichannel Networks made their money and how it all went wrong!!!! LMAO
@@YbotPoweredGaming Isn't he actually a lawyer anyways? I thought he mentioned that in another Blaze video.
That beard is getting gloriously luxurious.
Don't ever wear a fedora though.
Simon, in a fedora? nuh uh
It has to get Gandalf long right ! 🤣 I would pay money for that to happen 😆
@@daveg7516 that would be interesting considering his dislike for Lord of the a rings, for whatever the reason.
@@CrazyAjvar Simon just hates culture... that isn't a Blaze. Or one of his other shows. :)
He has actually worn a fedora on a TIFO video.
I believe it was the one about Snoop Dog attempting to rent out a country.
"I basically have no cultural knowledge and I'm just totally okay with that." You and me both, Simon. 👍
OMG Danny has totally embraced that he’s trapped in Simon’s basement.
It's not that he's embraced his imprisonment , I think it's more a case of Stockholm syndrome.
Danny doesn't really have any other option
I think he is down there
I think it’s called Stockholm Syndrome.
@David Reads Allegedly
Simon is getting soft. Danny now gets music in the basement?!
It's probably just to drown out the sounds of him sobbing.
"Don't do that, he'll thinks he's people"~Sterling Archer talking about Woodhouse.
I know right, he used to only be able to listen to strictly bucket sounds. He's gonna get spoiled down there
It's to play Yoko Ono if he stops typing scripts.
A phone with Siri needs to be strapped onto good ol' ETA so you can talk to it. Honestly I just want to watch you argue with a space heater.
this could be heated projects channel
chronoss chiron BA DUM DUM PSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH
SSSHHHHH
10/10 would watch
"My neighbors can hear me" (also Simon) "SILENCE INFIDELS"
As long as they can't hear Danny
"Basement Danny" would make a cool T-shirt.
I've thought this many times.. chained by the ankle to his workstation 😆
I shall make an art wooooork~* La basement Danny
@@shaggyspade2468 Awesome!
#freebasementdanny
Think you mean "basement daddy"
"I'm not a terrible person. SHUTUP DANNY, OR I'M REMOVING THE SPEAKER FROM YOUR CAGE!!!"
Sam is a damn genius. The cat when Simon was imitating radio head 😂. Very accurate I know that video it sounds exactly like Simon's singing😂
And both sound like (probably Sam's) hairball barfing cat! I have to back up & replay so often from laughing so hard...my neighbor thinks I should be in a psych ward from all the random swearing and hiccoughing and hysteria that goes on around here!
Fun Fact, that cat was tripping acid. Was a really old YT video that last i looked (3 years ago) was taken down. Cat is just freaking out saying "no no no no" over and over again.
This channel quickly became my favorite Simon channel. Keep it up boys
Spotify basically uses a model similar to tip pooling in restaurants, except instead of benefiting the small potatoes, it hurts them even more.
That's the best comparison I've heard.
I mean, it helps small potatoes who would otherwise never get any attention (or money) otherwise.
Allegedly.
"Born Free"
"Chain of Fools"
Cries for Help, obviously. No joke.
Also, 0.004 cents/stream is Four Thousandths of a cent, not half.
Allegedly...
@David Reads nope, it's cents, not allegedly either.
yeah , Danny's music choices are worrying
1/250=.004 you are correct
That's four thousands of a DOLLAR. Four tenths of a cent.
It is NOT four thousandths of a cent.
[Your high horse dies; you come crashing to the ground.]
Your move:
So Simon how are you doing with the quarantine?
Simon: I made friends with a heater I named Eta😂
Its ya Boi wit da Blaze! Makes my day better instantly!!!!!!
I need to quit slapping my desk everytime Simon slaps the script!!!!
The untold amount of coffee that has been spilled!!!
This guy is a legend. The music industry has been robbing artists blind for decades. They deserve it
Yes. There is a reason why a record label executive had access to Spotify's "confidential" list. And that reason is because record companies pulled this kind of *bleep* with Spotify before in order to corner the profits from the platform and get their artist more recommended hits and have a bragging point in the media. ALLEGEDLY. ua-cam.com/video/Z_y_zeql7pc/v-deo.html
Weirdly enough spotify has made me start buying music again - mainly due to them having huge enough gaps in their catalogue that I end up having to track down the paid for digital download on a semi-regular basis (I spend about 50-80€ per year on digital download albums).
(Going on a rant)
So to anyone that argues that spotify is "access to all the recorded music" - expand your listening horizons. (And don't even get me started on the regional availability crap either, or that spotify really should add an option to list music their database is aware of but is missing so that you can stop wondering if you remembered the artist and title correctly, and then we have the entire thing with that they usually only have the latest edition of each album (in general the remastered and remixed albums suck - seems like they (usually) mastered them for el-crappo in-ears rather than studio-grade monitors and studio-grade headphones), and then we also don't have the regional variations either (if I listen to an austrian artist I usually tend to prefer the austrian releases of albums rather than the international versions (or the US versions - which tend to emphasis six remixes that are bass-heavy rather than adding obscure songs))).
Herr U Sadly most of the music I like is Japanese, so if I can’t get it on Spotify then there’s no real legal way to get it that I can then play in Australia. 😕
Simon: "0.004 cents- so basically, like, half a cent"...
Everybody with a basic understanding of how numbers work: *raises eyebrows*
I think I know why that company was able to convince Simon to accept such a rubbish deal!
well considering he could've been confused with 0.004 dollars/pounds its kinda excusable
@@simdimdim getting a cent confused with dollar or pound in the same sentence as the thing he had literally just read it out loud is still kinda bad, especially since this video was edited before being released. It also diminishes his point- since half a cent for each click is pretty good; 30,000 views would get him $150. Since he then goes on to say that 30,000 UA-cam views gets him about $120, thinking that half a cent per view is an
unnaceptable amount means that he's settled for a worse one without even realising it.
Like- he implies that he wouldn't accept half a cent per view on Spotify because it's a terrible deal, and then says that UA-cam pays him less than half a cent per view and says he "feels pretty well compensated" for it.
ETA reached out over the web and said it loves you too Simon.
It just wanted to help someone stay warm, but it's gotten used to being loved.
No Bulgarians were harmed during the making of this video, allegedly
Doubt
I'm Bulgarian and this offends me
Who is this kurwa and why didn't I get the 1 million
Simon: "Maybe that's just because I'm not a horrible person".
Me: "Allegedly"
Ok, why calling is "scam"? Is it strictly by the rules? By the Spotify rules? Does the owner lied anyone?
He paid for all of his accounts fair and square. There is nothing in the T&C against playing music without listening it.
I mean, the guy is freaking genius, who used not very well designed system to make "some" money.
P.S. And yes, it will be really, really, really hard to sue anyone here in Bulgaria. Especially, if he got a million dollars. :P
P.P.S. Allegedly.
What an intro. F in the chat for the transformer, transformer.exe has stopped working
F (respects paid)
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Simon: "we need to stop this spotify thing"
The subtitles: "we need to stop this spotify fish"
6:50 no, it's already in cents; 0.004 cents per stream works out at 1 cent per 250 streams.
I love that as well as getting that horribly wrong, and implying that half a cent per stream is a terrible deal, he goes on to say that 30,000 UA-cam views will earn him about $120, and that he feels pretty well compensated by it.
Basic mathematics is clearly difficult for him, and I think I understand how that company was able to get him to accept such a bad deal (allegedly).
It's us, we're drilling through the walls. We've got to save Danny!
A Saturn V rocket launching also accomplishes something.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
But is it worth it
Oof.
Also people would be willing to give way more than their hearing to see a Saturn V launch in person. Like a kidney.
Yeah, it melts his face. He established that
The selling point for bands to go to digital services was that they would finally get paid for actual sales. As apposed to the old system where record companies would press 1 million copies of a record but claim to have only sold 100,000.
Oh my god, Danny knows about Penis Flytrap! :D That's amazing! I have their tales of terror album, but I sort of assume that I'm one of 3 fans that appreciate women punk bands from the 80's. Also, a fan of 45 grave, Dinah Cancers primary band. But hah! That really IS obscure. Hat's off to you, Danny!
Queen Bitch is a David Bowie cover though, but by now I am going to assume that Simon don't know who that is either! ^_~
Edit: Had to edit out that it was a vinyl, because I was lying! It is a cd! ...Does it even exist as a vinyl? If so, do I need it? Or are there limits to my pretentiousness? Maybe I should just buy a Gloryhammer album instead, to cool down the inner hipster.
As a Bulgarian, the 'Ken Li' reference by Sam is just truly phenomenal. Simon, this man needs a payrise!
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, always amazing videos, Danny's the channel's number one LEGEND, allegedly and all that, always entertaining, Sam rocks, Brian rolls, the real star today was that cup of coffee. Also, John Lennon wasn't a great ... person, let alone business man, if he said: "No, thanks every other woman on the planet, I'll take this screaming japanese thing all my friends hate!".
*simon straight up tells me to stop watching*
*smashes dislike and keeps watching*
Legend.
Welp
I appreciate his continued demands to hit dislike or stop listening to this channel!
And I refuse to listen.
Okay, so I searched for about 2 minutes, got bored and decided to just ask... which company did he used to work for?
Nerdikles TV probably Machinima. They do sketchy shit and take all your money too
Other comments are saying Defy, but :shrug:
What I came to the chat to find out as well.
Barstool sports is a shit squirt too
Balibodybodaityuo was THE hot meme of 2007 in Bulgaria.
Thank you, Sam, for the nostalgia.
Watch for a note under the door. If I were your neighbour, I’d be really tempted to just slip a “WTF” under the door
And because of the opening, I was expecting the video to be about a Bulgarian who put rip off Yoko Ono music on Spotify
Wish I was Simon's neighbor!
... 🤔
Ripeoff Ono music....on spotify.....
🤔
Canadian Dee ....but Simon lives in the Czech Republic, so "wtf" might mean please join us for coffee or something.
Or start screaming back in some weird duet.
Remlat Zargonix I could live with that
I say it was an scam, you can scam someone while being within the law. Overpriced HDMI cables is an good example :)
Spottily did not thought of bots so they did not check for that or had it in the terms.
People used bots to manipulate the internet 20 years ago.
"The perfect time for the He-Man meme ...", or in my case, for the Toyota commercial. :-)
Spotify is all over these types of scams now. A friend of mine had his band's Spotify account suspended because their bots detected suspicious behaviour. Someone had put his music on repeat and must have accidentally left it running 24/7. Spotify assumed it was a spam account, but it all got sorted in the end.
I didn't expect the bloody Spanish Inquisition...
Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition!!!
Yes, their chief weapon is surprise and fear. Their two main weapons...
@@ExMachinaEngineering are surprise, fear, and ruthless efficiency. 3! Our three chief elements are..
I see what you did there. Well played my friend.
In fairness, Thom Yorke is annoyed by everything that isn’t Thom Yorke
And even some things that are...
Happy colonial rebellion day Simon! Let's blaze!
It's America Day
I play 3 songs max and close the app to avoid the ad.
''I don't know why I buy these things, it's not like a do anything else other than Blaze.....& by ''Blaze'', I mean work. ....allegedly ;) 🚬
Fair play. I have no time for Pandora or Spotify because they are legally obligated to never play the song you want to hear, just random songs that are related in some vague way.
Yoko Ono: IEAYAAAAAIEEEEEEEEEEE
Me: Click
My biggest problem with Spotify is the lack of a music upload feature like Google/UA-cam music, considering it may have missing or ‘incorrect’ versions (e.g. live versions) of songs.
Main reason I’ve kept it is because I get it ‘free’ through my phone network and Google/UA-cam isn’t on Alexa.
Wow. The Dickens Cider was a skit from my favorite drive time morning radio show here in the States, Bob and Tom. Wasn’t expecting to hear that lol. Have whole CDs if you want Em Simon 🤣🤣
YES! Someone else who caught that.
Simon, you would love these. Morning syndicated comedy show, only music played were social comedy guests (like DaVinci's Notebook, a barbershop quartet a capella group with a sing called Enormous Penis). There were several Dicken's Cider ads over the years.
Funny story: I'm from the town they started in, and used to play at the bar they met at, albeit 20 years later, when they finally returned to the area on air. After they were paired, they took a 44 ratings share and the competing stations made a compilation tape of their stiff and sent it to a program director national convention.
Dickens Cider is an actual brand of cider.
This actually destroyed one of my favorite authors on Kindle. Had bots flipping pages on Kindle unlimited. They didn't even give the authors information about what happened until it was too late. No information about how they decided they were doing it. I'm sure some people did know and pay the botters, but not necessarily all of them did.
Lol what was that start
Simon giving zero fks😆
A Tom Yorke impression. Allegedly.
Legendary
Allegedly a perfect imitation of Yoko Ono singing.
The into is a track off the bathroom scenes classic hits.
"this is the perfect time for the He-man meme, "gets interrupted by an ad..........."
Yup, Raid Shadow Legends oddly enough
"I don't know why I buy these things. All I ever do is blaze"
I’d like to see a Blaze about these multichannel networks (never heard of them before) and why people sign up to them, then how they allegedly screw creators over.
We either listen illegally,or get paid to listen!
I just watched the "I Am A Cider Drinker" music video and I don't have words. I am so curious about Danny's eccentricities that you should do a Biographics on him. I can't be the only one by now. I mean who can reference such an obscure "cocaine induced fever dream" of a song like that? Their life has to be intriguing even if the life they lead isn't so Ian Flemming'esq.
Woohoo good timing on the upload! From a minority female fan #alledgedly
Why are we a minority anyways?
Asking as a female European fan who's watching all of Simon's videos and loves the Blaze 😇
Same question! Also femald european who is a big fan!
Me too. I love Bb, but I suspect its a bit laddish for alot of women. X
@@chrisbcakes4949 how? It's just funny. I don't see how it's specially funny for guys?
@@stephjovi I just think that it has a 'vibe'. Not judging, I love it too, just a gut feeling. X
This is why I like to use Bandcamp. If I find an artist I like, I can pay a small amount of money for either a song or pay a little more for the album... and the money goes directly to the artist.
Last time I was early, Bulgaria was communist
never again!
*socialist *....... but nice one, Kimmy
@@ralz97 both sucks, so it doesn't matter.
My daughter just walked in on me watching this video and I was at the part where Simon is doing his impersonation of Tom York ... she looked me dead in the eyes and said “why? Just why mum?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 thank you Mr Whistler 🤣🤣🤣
Wait a second, I caught this one while it was still new? I don't know what to do here...
Pray for sempai to notice you!
Also yell at Simon not to make fun of something
Ikr
Oh. I just assumed it was released days ago... Well I'm usually right
@@WeirdOne19142 well, he didn't do any cocaine.
Haha, dafuq with the end credits Sam? Great episode team, and this is actually one I'm going to share, because my relatives use Spotify and don't know why I hate it (and screw them if they don't understand the in-jokes, they'll have to watch ALL of Business Blaze and give you that sweet sweet watch time!).
just as i warm up some leftover shit for meal you upload a video to go with it, excellent service simon.
not sure if you just came at the end of that introduction sequence.
@@Jop3lius phrasing?
Edit: also, don't eat shit, you'll die.
That does not sound healthy
@@lookihaveausernametoo4231 at least it's warm shit?
spotify still has security flaws, like sometimes you'll suddenly notice trashy songs/albums/playlists you've never listened to in your 'recent' tab - bot-played on a "web client" as soon as you turn off your client, or sometimes hijacking/replacing your currently playing list.
annoyingly, the only thing you can do against it right now is to go to your account page, disconnect all clients, change your password, disconnect all clients again, and re-authorize your actual client/app. *again* .
Simon knows Macklemore, and Taylor (and the Creep that Radiohead is), but not of the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin?!
Inconceivable! 😣
#AgreeWTheBieberThing 😝
Simon, how about doing an episode for Biographics about Terry Fox? He lost his leg to cancer and ran from Vancouver to the eastern side of Canada as a fund raiser for cancer research. It would be a great episode.
Simon is slowly turning into something else
My dude, he was always this
Into a legend... allegedly!
Transforming, perhaps? 😂
16:30 One more thing to factor in is that there’s lots of ‘one month free trial’ offers for Spotify, so especially if they used those disposable credit cards you mention they might not have had to pay the upfront $10.
One day I'll reach the impeccable meme level of being mentioned in a video. That is my declaration!
Not sure how yet... I'll just keep being nice I think xD
🎩👌
I got mentioned in a video by suggesting the weird ways people make money. Just come up with a good idea and hell shout you out if he makes the video
@@Pennywise-nx4jz Generally, not always. He's forgotten a name and even then mentioned that fact, at least once on BB.
I also know that he occasionally has forgotten, and then not mentioned it at all, at least once. He did make sure not to say it was his idea in that instance though.
Some others if he doesn't say who may be from other people, but idk that for sure.
Especially with all the different shit going, it's super easy for things to get lost. Or ignored 🤣🤣🤣
I'm not sure that it's necessary a good thing to be mentioned in this channel.
It's like 95% about fuckups.
@@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 and my life isnt?
I'm a musician - and I don't believe that the streaming services are paying enough to the actual artists. The record companies have historically screwed musicians. My particular preference is Jazz music - other than Miles Davis (who was taken advantage of by the record companies earlier in his career) who basically wrote his own ticket because he was such a stubborn, narcissistic ass, pretty much all Jazz musicians - who didn't form their own recording companies - were horribly screwed. And of course, everyone knows that the pop/rock world has historically been cheated by managers and record companies.
My only thought that might semi-excuse the corporate assholes is that streaming could almost be considered to be equivalent to radio stations. Although, with the radio you can't choose which songs you listen to and FM radio is way below the high definition quality of most streamed music. If anyone knows about how much musicians are paid for radio broadcasts of their songs, I'd really appreciate knowing. Thanks - and thank you Simon for covering subjects like this.
Who is the MCN?
A tour of silent music? Did it consist of invisible artists playing the silent music?
For only $100 and you can get a ticket to my silent concert with nobody playing music, at no location, at no specific time. The ticket is written in invisible ink.
Not Great at Gaming ...yes, it was the greatest hits recording of air guitarists.
I’m old school, I like to own my music.
"Danny, GET BACK IN THE BASEMENT!!!"
The Macklemore & Ryan Lewis song is called "Jimmy Iovine" in which he ended with "Rather die a starving artist than succeed at getting fucked" from the album The Heist from 2012 and 2013. For the like 4 people who were curious, and Simon :)
Artist labels: we like money
Also artist label: we like money but we want more
Artist label in the back room: if we don't get more money then we don't want any at all
Artist label: we like money we will go with that
there's a classical song 4'33" where the instrumentalists are completely silent for that whole time. Dude named John Cage wrote it in the 50s. You're meant to listen to the ambient noise in some zen sort of way.
Aah. This remimded me about time 2010 when finnish people started trolling spotify by putting repeat Kari Tapio - Juna kulkee, It peaked at number 13 at most playd list. There is silverling to this story, it restarted Kari Tapio´s career, sadly him passed away December 2010.
Legit Deer in the headlights as soon as this video started. Ty Simon for leaving me speechless when there's not even anyone here to talk to. I love you for all you do!
Gone are the days of sitting in your bedroom, cassette recorder right next to your transistor radio, fingers hovering above the record & play buttons, waiting.... patiently.... for your favorite song to come on. Hoping! The DJ won't talk over the beginning & you dont miss too much of the song!
Personally I both hate and love digital media. Its helpful, useful and doesnt take up physical space. But, the problem is companies can taken it/ discontinue it any time, making it useless.
Still gotta do a BioGraphics on Richard Wagner, Antonin Artaud, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, August Wilson, Eugene O'Neill, Konstantin Stanislavski, Anton Chekhov, Michael Chekhov, Edward Albee, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Georg Duke of Saxe-Meiningen(The FIRST Director)
As someone who grew up buying many, many, many records, cassettes, and CDs, one thing I love about Spotify is not having the crap-shoot of buying an album of 12 tracks and ending up only liking 4 songs. CDs were better for skipping, but cassettes... *eye twitch*
The nice thing about having music and movies and games on physical media is that you actually OWN the thing and can resell it if you want. Digital is just a license to listen, watch, or play until the license holders say "Yeah, I think I want to just piss everyone off. Rights revoked!"
Well, I've watched this. Now every corner of my screen will be filled with offerings for some weird collections of sounds that are pawned off on the young as music. It may take a dozen or so views of the lissome ladies of Shanz III (Шанз) to reverse the process.
finally, a video when the sign in the back doesnt burn into my phone screen
I just buy albums off Google play.
I don't appreciate Spotify assuming what songs I'd like to hear when I specifically search for songs I want to hear.
I have never seen a Terms of Service without a clause that basically says they can disregard their own rules if, at their sole discretion, they believe the rules have been abused. I have also never seen a Terms of Service that grants the same liberty to the user.
That beard is becoming a legend...I still need to purch the merch.
Assuming someone already mentioned this, but the Dicken's Cider skit was from Bob and Tom, a syndicated talk show in the states that's been running for a few decades now. Lots of clever double entendres :)
Simon's impersonation of Tom York is still way better than anything Yoko Ono has ever recorded.
That was the best Radiohead impersonation ever. Allegedly.