The real issue has to do with transparency. Artists who negotiate coverage behind closed doors, through strategic relationships or undisclosed payments, get the appearance of organic recognition, while artists who'd rather pay for a placement openly, or can't access the back channel at all, get treated as suspect for the same underlying transaction. If the industry's actual objection is to coverage being bought, the backchannel deal is the more serious violation of that princ

Over the years, Moriarty has undergone some of the most drastic reinventions of any literary villain, transforming from a briefly mentioned plot device into a pop-culture archetype of the criminal mastermind, setting the pop-culture standard for the intellectual bad guy that has survived to this day.

From “Time” by Pink Floyd to “Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper to “Sign of the Times” by Harry Styles. It seems like the theme has been covered by almost every genre across almost every decade in one form or another. That makes sense, time touches all of us, there are no exceptions. But the song that I kept coming back to is Steve Miller’s “Fly Like an Eagle.”