“Do women find it particularly difficult to discover music?” Music Business Worldwide wonders. “It’s a new one on us, but that’s what Jimmy Iovine claimed today (November 19) on a live interview with CBS in America.”
“As you can watch in the video below, CBS This Morning host Gayle King welcomed Apple Music kingpin Iovine to the studio alongside ‘queen of hip-hop soul’ and Apple Music endorser Mary J Blige. King introduced the show with a new Apple Music TV ad featuring Blige alongside Kerry Washington and Taraji P. Henson – the second in a marketing series featuring the trio,” MBW reports. “King then asks Iovine: ‘What was your thinking?’ The exec replies… ‘So I always knew that women find it very difficult at times – some women – to find music. And this helps makes it easier with playlists, curated by real people. They’re not made by algorithms alone – they’re made by algorithms but with a human touch.'”
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“In today’s sexist garbage: Apple Music executive and longtime music-industry bigshot Jimmy Iovine thinks women are too stupid to find music,” Dee Lockett writes for The Vulture. “ven worse, Iovine spews this nonsense with a straight face while sitting directly next to Blige, who somehow finds enough poise and self-control not to tape his mouth shut. For that, Mary deserves all the awards. And Jimmy deserves an overdue lesson on misogyny in the music industry.”
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In the new Apple Music ad, “the slogan ‘INSTANT BOYFRIEND MIXTAPE SERVICE’ flashes on the screen,” Lyndsey Parker writes for Yahoo News. “The ad makes it unclear if Apple offers an ‘instant girlfriend mixtape service’ for heterosexual male music-lovers.”
“Iovine’s tone-deaf and old-fashioned remarks have, unsurprisingly, received swift retribution on Twitter from both female and male music fans,” Parker writes. “Perhaps the next time Iovine goes on TV, he should just stick to delivering rehearsed one-liners on American Idol.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Uh oh, stirring up the perpetually-on-the-lookout-to-be-outraged-over-the-slightest-thing is a major league no-no in 2015 America, don’t you know, Jimmy?!
You singled out “some women” when talking about a commercial featuring some women using Apple Music. What are you, crazy?!
Obviously, you should have said “some people” instead. Wait, uh oh, “people” might be offensive to music-loving animals. Oh, crap, we just called animals “animals!” (The horror.) We can smell the PETA petition from here. Wait, wait, wait – we DID NOT mean to infer that PETA smells! Well, they smell, you know, collectively. Like, they have noses… No, no, not BIG noses, just regular, normal, unoffensive noses… Nice noses. Verrry nice noses! Well, except for those born without noses (is that a thing?) uh, we mean… Damn, look at how fast this hole gets dug! So-called “free speech” is a fsckin’ minefield, ain’t it?
If he issues a public apology over referring to some women in a TV commercial as “some women,” we’re signing up for the one-way trip to Mars!
Yup, you guessed it, we’ve had enough of this politically correct, over-sensitive horseshit in which the U.S., among other places, is so horrifically, potentially terminally over-steeped.
Here’s the interview which includes the new ad. Please note the context of Iovine’s statements and sign up for Apple Music, will you? The price is a steal for what you get and the UI isn’t really that bad. Most people can figure it out – even “some men.” 😉
