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In the coming days/weeks you’re going to hear a lot of people talk about Watch the Throne, the current coupler album between rap’s biggest names in 2011, Kanye West and Jay-Z. You’re going to hear people talk about how magnificent it is, how grim it is, how intent it is, how boring it is, how whatever it is and how not however it is. You’re going to hear a lot about how the record didn’t leak, and how that affected sales and public knowledge and changed the direction other artists might handle their unreleased music. So let me just preamble all of this by mentioning that I, Chris Bosman, have not heard Watch the Throne additionally.

Partially this is for I’ve been busy, partially it’s for I don’t have a release calendar and forgot it was coming out, and partially it was one of those high-handed fussy offers to hear to a record afterward the hype has passed, so I could hear it in for many of a fussy vaccuum as I possibly could. Thonce and for all reason is forever the worst, mostly for it’s pretentious as entire perdition, but likewise because in 2011 it’s just impossible. We musto much message from also many angles inundated into our journal lives. I check Twitter and Facebook everyday, and the odds were that I’d hear something about Watch the Throne ahead I actually listened to it, even now I averted any and entire music websites, even despite the truth that it didn’t drip.

And I did. Logging above apt Twitter this quondam week, by least half of my feed at anybody given period was someone about Watch the Throne. Whether it be fellow Prefix writers or additional commentators arguing it, or Aziz Ansari and ST 2 Lettaz from G-Side quoting it, the album was just everywhere. So I closed out my Twitter and opened up my Facebook and it was the same object, including correlates to YouTube rips and Mediafire downloads, which would probably have been shut down at all times I got to them. Basically, the log was inevitable.

This isn’t the 1st time that this phenomenon has happened this annual. On Valentine’s Day, Radiohead announced that they would be releasing their latest album, The King of Limbs, on the 18th. I went during the daytime on the 18th, but worked to check it out while I got family. On my Twitter feed, on my Facebook, on my phone’s text messages as fuck’s sake, there was speak about The King of Limbs.

What’s the cause for this? Well, it’s two-fold. Firstly, how we talk about melody in the public sphere has changed, and secondly, high-profile artists have changed their unlock strategies. The combination of the 2 has created a night-time Harry Potter film release air in the music blogosphere. If you weren’t there exactly when it dropped, you better hike around with your fingers in your ears until you do.