Description: You may have seen my most recent compilation album, “Wild Woman” featuring singles I released on my YouTube page between 2021-22. You may even be wondering, why have you put out so many compilations over the last couple years? Well, I was a little late to the streaming game. I only put an album on Spotify in 2017. I didn’t even consider the idea of adding my older albums to streaming services until the pandemic slowed things down. It became apparent that I had so many random little songs that hadn’t been on albums, it made sense to create compilation albums so new fans could discover unknown material, and old fans could find songs that they might not even remember. That brings us to Wild Woman, and why you won’t see it on my YouTube channel anymore. The other night, I was playing the album on my YouTube TV app and I watched a non-skippable, incredibly explicit anti-trans advertisement. There’s a number of reasons that ads play on any video, including geography or user data, but in this situation it did appear that the metadata keyword “Woman” was the primary reason that this ad would run on the video. Now, as a monetized creator I do have several options for filtering the types of ads that run on my work. However, what I don’t get to see is a list which ads have played on my videos at any given time. Since it was late at night, and I didn’t catch the advertiser, there’s very little for me to do preemptively in a situation like this. I really don’t like the idea that the only way to avoid profiting off of anti-trans advertising is to wait until after the damage has been done. This is why Wild Woman album and single are no longer on my YouTube channel, and the acoustic version has been demonetized. This is the next part of why I made this video, which is the state of the monetized internet as I know it. If you’ve listened to any of my last three albums, Vine Star Rehab, Soft Girl’s Get Wet, or Elmer Gantry (although I would say Get Wet definitely offers the most direct criticism) you’re probably not surprised to hear that I believe the internet of today has become hyper monetized, and that algorithms have discouraged cross-platform communication. This stifles genuine community building for creators. These last few years, creating content on the internet has generated less and less return on investment, and I don’t mean monetarily. Once upon a time, a song I’d put out might not generate sales, but it would still spread across platforms. Communication between websites was easy, and word of mouth was the only press I really needed. These days, people refrain from posting a link, because there’s a computer program deems your post is less valuable, because it leads the consumer away from whatever service you’re on to the competitor. For me, this has led to a drastic loss of the community I once felt surrounding my music, which has always been something I did just for love. Something I will continue to do. However, I cannot say with any form of certainty that the internet is a place I can continue to create content for in any good conscience. Obviously, this is not about just one bad advertisement. But the idea that I had profited even a penny off of anti-trans advertising genuinely broke my heart. I felt powerless to stop it with the tools at hand and it was a wake up call to the feelings I have had for several years now. My first impulse was to just delete everything, but that’s not what I’m going to do. Instead, I’m going to take a step back from the internet as a medium. So where do we go from here? Well, I am confident in saying that 99% of the music I’ve released, even random midnight uploads, are now available on the major streaming services. If you’ve been a fan of my music, I’m glad to provide this option for the modern age. I encourage you to comb through, and maybe find something you’ve never heard before. As for me, I’ll be around, just not here so much. The next six months will each feature a new entry in the 4K series, where I’ve created cinema quality versions of my old music videos through the use of artificial intelligence. I’m also offering my entire discography, including 2 exclusive albums, at a 75% discount on Bandcamp. I do wish you all the best, I thank you for listening, obviously this isn’t a full dissertation on the state of the internet, and it’s not about just one bad ad—just something I’ve been feeling for a long time and I felt the need to say. If I do have anything new in the works down the line, you know you guys are gonna be the first ones to hear about it. But for now, au revoir and much love.

Description: Manthem is a musical segment from Space and Time: The Movie (2021) Stream it: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jeffburgess/1993 Like the video? Comment and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/justfern?subconfirmation=1 Music producer: Just Fern Movie editor: Jeff Burgess Movie cinematographer: Cottonbro Music in the video Manthem by Jeff Burgess from Music from the Motion Picture: Space and Time Released Oct 15 2021 Provided to YouTube by Dollar Store Copyright © 2021

Description: You can dance like a wild woman You can pray to the crimson light Up into the night Into the night You embrace all the lawless ruin You expose your soldier goals Until it explodes 'Til it explodes You can waver to twisted heights You can slay Rocky Mountain highs And then you can thrive You enhance me with crystal vision You endorse all I'm asking for Whole world to explore Holes in the floor You encase all my excess woman You inscribe me with rich woke writings Then we endure More after more You can haver to quick stroke guys You can hunker with Keystone Lights Or you can walk around the base until it's over You can wager your literal ice You can pave a gilded highway Or go resting on the shoulders that you shored You can play with a glitzy band You can splay your knees and hands And you can always sell the show when you get bored But if all these trials are righteous That explains the dirgish fight chants And the super high tech jet fighters of old Well if all these souls are right Then it just might save your life Or maybe it won't

Description: Happy to debut this Bandcamp exclusive cover album Download: https://jeffburgess.bandcamp.com/album/the-album-cover 00:00 Out of the Woods 03:41 Video Games 08:04 Pet Carrot 10:11 Mona 12:40 Mermaids 16:10 No Children 18:55 Discord 21:56 Take Me Home, Country Roads 25:09 Blue (Da Ba Dee) 28:16 Sitting 31:42 Shivers 34:48 Hungry Heart Credits: released May 18, 2022 Out of the Woods - Taylor Swift Video Games - Lana Del Rey Pet Carrot - Palehound Mona - The Beach Boys Mermaids - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds No Children - The Mountain Goats Discord - Eurobeat Brony Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65 Sitting - Cat Stevens Shivers - Rowland S Howard Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen

Description: Hungry Heart turns 2 today! Stream Quarters: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/justfern/hungry-heart Like the video? Comment and subscribe: https://Youtube.com/JustFern?subconfirmation=1 Yes this was filmed on a Potato at a show in March 2019. The shows I used to do in Pittsburgh were very dark, cold AF, and lit mostly by string lights and dying bulbs. Add some PBR to the mix and this is sort of like a DIY Show Simulator. Produced by Jeff Burgess Originally released on "Hungry Heart" by Just Fern Addtl Credits:Bass, Audrey Romero; Lyrics, J. A. Whitman #TheCow #InTheBackground