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Liz Pelly

Contributing editor Liz Pelly writes about music, culture, streaming and the internet. She lives in New York.

Parodying a digital marketing growth diagram, the outline of a musician holding a guitar is bombarded by flowchart lines, their arrows reading "IMPRESSIONS," "LIKES," "SHARES," "ENGAGEMENT," "CONVERSIONS," "REVENUE" and "BRAND." The word "CONTENT" is stamped over the guitar.

Sofar, So Bad

November 4, 2019
“Thank you so much for this magical moment,” whispered a French singer with a leather jacket and harmonica. “I never thought in my life I’d be playing on the top of the American Copper,” he told a crowd of about fifty, referring to the name of the Murray Hill luxury ...