We Need To Talk About Hell’s Kitchen Gay Scene (2023)

Tom Tales was in New York Hell’s Kitchen, more particularly at Hush for Bears Happy Hours when they played Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton back to back. Hiding in a corner while the female equivalent of Nickelback singed while holding is 9$ beer, he became hopeless….. what has become of gay culture and New York « edgy » bars? Britney was not even on yet but he felt she was about to come….He later told me Christina Aiguilera “Genie in a Bottle” is a hit at Flex……

Manifesto : We Need To Talk About Hell’s Kitchen Music

Welcome to The Corporate “Taste” du Jour : a place where you are free of any judgement about anything you like and where only money drives the intentions of any given cultural statement. Music is not art, it is a way to make you drink. Inclined with Spotify, major labels and what television tells you, you will be able to listen to it while working at the bank or shopping at the mall. Drake is your friend and Taylor Swift is your god! « Gurlll », you are in heaven!

If you think the previous songs are jams, then you have very corporate tastes my friend.

The Musical Gay NPC lives in Hell’s Kitchen!

A musical NPC (Non-Playable Character) is unthreatening to the system and willing to spend a fortune on things fed to him by the machine without question. They are everywhere and perfect fit to justify paying overpriced tickets for any Live Nations Act while buying this new Ice Spice Starbuck Coffee after clicking on targeted ads via their latest iphones.

I Will Become A Machine

Machines took over the music in the last 5 years. It means now, every bar and coffee shop in America runs on Spotify playlists.They just work, are easy to use, reliable and somewhat good.

Flat White Corporate Taste all over America

The dark side of the machines is that it flattens our general music taste and leads to mainstream. I have travelled to many cafes, and they all now play a derivative of lo-fi Chill Cow music. No personal flavor : New York is not special anymore.

Lets put it this way, Netflix pays for shows. Thus, it is good for Netflix to have the highest number of listeners for the lowest number of shows. So what does the algorithm do, it curates the specific to bring you slowly towards the mainstream without even you noticing it. IT TRAINS YOU to become generic. That is what it ALWAYS DOES. The ads money is in the mainstream….and these companies want money…..

Don’t brag about your Spotify Recap

Think about this. Did you really picked the song on your playlist or was it the machine based on your “tastes”. Either way, don’t brag about it : it is not healthy for humanity.

(2025 update : it is the machine)

In retrospective, normalizing that the most expensive bars in New York have the lowest taste in music is marking the death of the city : corporate bankers can’t have good taste since they are the machine.

Tom Tales is considering going to Coachella with a plan payable in a 12 month plans after hearing one song of one artist on « randomly » on Spotify.
It was called : Do it gurl!