Genius laid off a bunch of its engineers
This doesn't come as any surprise to me.  Over the years, I haven't found Genius to be significantly better at annotating lyrics than any of it's competitors.  Genius takes longer to load and doesn't provide any more value in its annotations than does azlyrics, youtube comments, facebook, reddit, or anywhere else discussions are occurring.  A lot of the time, its annotations are just straight up wrong or embarrassingly shallow, and attracting actual artists to write about their own lyrics didn't excite me.  Furthermore, the lyrics themselves are often wrong.<p>The reason I'm complaining about this isn't to be a wet blanket- I just can't believe this service got the amount of funding it did.  If their musical annotations are so cringeworthy and poor, what made investors think they could annotate other websites so well that a $58.9 million dollar investment would produce any reasonable return?<p>Genius reminds me quite a lot of last.fm in terms of what kind of service it was and how well it has fared as time has progressed.  Both were reasonable ideas to begin with, but is there any reason these ideas needed millions of dollars in funding to operate?  I am really getting the impression that these tech VC's are just out of ideas and are consistently trying to monetize internet toys which in reality should remain small web services for dedicated user-developer types.