I am new here. So I don’t really well know the rules, culture, etc. I have not voted on an edit, though I am able to.
I came across a new release entry (2025-12-30) under “Pink Floyd (another one)”. It clearly is NOT Pink Floyd. To me it looks like a misguided attempt at either self promotion or to sexualize some unfortunate woman.
My gut instinct is to vote it down. But I’m REALLY new. So I seek guidance.
What is the appropriate thing for me to do?
Are there specific guidelines that deal with this sort of thing? ( I’m not even sure what to search for)
It’s not credited to Pink Floyd the band, but to Zippy Kid. He appears to be legitimate. The Bandcamp release is linked to it. There’s a whole bunch of these types of releases on YouTube that have been entered on MB. As far as I know, if it’s legitimately released music, it can be cataloged on MB.
Sad to say that what the others have said is true. However, having looked at this “artist’s” Bandcamp page, I don’ think it’s a very serious artist. With album prices of hundreds of dollars for 2 or 3 tracks, and faked images of celebrities, it’s clear to me that it’s probably just some kid taking advantage of the internet.
If you happen to have a Bandcamp account, you might consider reporting the artist for abusive and offensive content.
If this person wants to sleep with Nicole Murkovski, who (based off a Google search) is an adult/porn performer and probably would appreciate the promotion, then that’s their business, and you can choose not to listen to their music.
I saw that. But I searched Bandcamp for “zippy kid” and found the artist, so I assumed they just killed the album. Then I looked closer, and the artist I found has a different URL (zippykidking.bandcamp.com), so they appear to be different users. So, yeah, it looks like they nuked the user.
I’m not so much opposed to vulgar content as I am to what I would call a non-serious artist, or a “spammer.” The faked nude images of celebrities on his “album” images, the unrealistic prices, etc., led me to this conclusion. Bandcamp appeared to agree.
As for the MB content, there was another incident recently where a vandal added some bogus releases, which were (I think) removed. I suppose marking them as “withdrawn” would be appropriate, if deletion isn’t.
Then, as I said, since Bandcamp decided to remove the release, setting the status to “Withdrawn” might be the appropriate path.
For the record, I don’t think my statements here can be fairly characterized as a “call to censorship.” I merely pointed out that it looked like a troll posting garbage, and suggested that it could be reported to Bandcamp. Apparently, someone did, and Bandcamp apparently agreed.
It looks like this to me, too.
Not music for music, but just random (maybe AI) crap, to take some space on the internet and being gratuitously insulting.
That guy achieved his secret goal to make us waste our time.
We at MB are a too easy target for that kind of time wasting bombs.
An advice I would give A wish I would make is, if one is not an actual listener, just don’t import fresh random download releases.
But it will never be the case for most editors.
sure, but i believe the artist themselves imports their own music.
I agree with @aerozol and the general sentiment, there’s plenty of naff music in our database (you should look to seek out some of the 4chan music albums that are in here) but it’s not our decision to say what we do and don’t include, if its been publicly released then along it shall come.
Let’s be honest, things are going to get worse - with AI generated music gaining more popularity, flooding streaming services, and people (sometimes unintentionally) enjoying it, we’re going to see a lot more of that stuff.
Yes it may not to be to your particular taste, but it is interesting to document regardless. And if the AI artist themselves wants to spend time adding it, then so be it
Maybe it would be interesting for more and more people to have a genuine “Hide Web Releases” (and release groups with no physical releases) preference setting or GUI toggle in MBS itself, rather than relying on mb_HIDE-DIGITAL-RELEASES userscript.
Web releases are another world.
Or maybe it’s still just me. In which case, nevermind.
A person is insanely prolific with music releases, possibly one of the most prolific in the world, making hundreds of releases a year, since ~2013. How it is produced is unknown, but it spans all genres - some of it ‘outsider’, some ‘musical’. The cover art usually features bright colours and fonts and a lot of selfies of the artist. The artist’s reasons and aims with doing this are unknown to us.
They release most of their music on mainstream platforms like Spotify, as well as Bandcamp. In ~2025 their Bandcamp (which has looser rules than other platforms) output takes a turn. Releases start to be titled or ‘released as’ the names of popular artists. In ~late 2025 a substantial amount have suggestive or nudity covers, including AI generated topless images of celebrities, with titles of an extremely sexual nature, often referring to sexual acts. If this is a genuine expression of the artists state, a bid for attention, or something else is unknown to us.
At the start of 2026 one of these later releases is added to MusicBrainz, and the wider MusicBrainz editorship becomes aware of the Bandcamp page. They decide that it is vulgar, trolling and maybe AI generated. They have the Bandcamp page and the hundreds of releases on it deleted. The public has been saved from being able to visit that page and see or listen to any of the releases. This is not censorship.
P.S. In writing this I was looking through their Bandcamp page (via Wayback Machine), and I do think the sexualizing of non-porn industry individuals (e.g. Taylor Swift) crosses the line for me personally, and I would also want those releases removed (censored) - though this doesn’t apply to the release that caused the tastemakers here to have the Bandcamp page deleted. I hope that this person gets their Bandcamp page back, minus those releases, but knowing similar cases with Bandcamp removals I would say that it’s unlikely.
Same for any individuals, IMO, including the one from this topic.
For me it’s the same insult from the point of view of the insulter.
It’s not because you unfortunately ended up in this trap “industry” that you want your image and your name to be insulted or misused by anyone else.
