Questions for the people trying to develop the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing, all-artist-compensating music blockchain (which is a really good idea and a really complicated one, and if my questions betray my ignorance, then I preemptively plead guilty): Will my old files -- the MP3s and WAVs I already own -- work on players and services that subscribe to any kind of new blockchain data standard? Will every song and album I either buy or have subscription rights to play on any device I want them to play on, and will they be fully portable in the way that I as a consumer understand portability? How will this affect an artist on a bedroom laptop who wants to sample or remix a blockchain-encoded song? Will that artist have to ask permission and/or pay someone before she even starts working? Who's going to standardize and copy-edit the metadata, and who's going to do the data-entry for the entire history of music? How will you deal with artists and bands who don't want to give themselves credit or get paid, which is to say, what's the "creative commons" aspect to this? Is every artist, composer and musician in the world prepared to put their contact and payment info in a public database? And how soon can you make this thing happen?... KESHA speaks out... In a preview of next year's GRAMMYS, last night's BRIT AWARDS "handed out pretty much everything to ADELE except the podium and the autocue." And in a preview of SUNDAY's ACADEMY AWARDS, they "failed to recognise any non-white artists"... Also: LORDE BOWIE trumps GAGA BOWIE... Dear artists: How dare you not return BUZZFEED's calls promptly. You are now on notice that you will henceforth find yourself the subject of a story alongside everyone else who failed to return BUZZFEED's phone calls, or offer a comment, on their question of the day... Missing CBGB awning found!