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> When I was nine years old, I bought Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby", and I listened to that shit (I'm not joking) like, 250 times in a week. Like a fucking idiot
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y ago
> When I was nine years old, I bought Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby", and I listened to that shit (I'm not joking) like, 250 times in a week. Like a fucking idiot. That's who's listening to this shit. Getting a billion streams in a month. It's fucking nine-year-olds. Our fans have, like, a hundred and fifty albums that they listen to, on a sort of rotation, at least one of them once a month.
- Patrick Carney (of The Black Keys)
I have no qualms with Spotify's business model: a 30/70 split seems fair. But their incentives are absolutely aligned with the record labels and the huge artists, not the smaller artists.
The promise of the golden era of music piracy was that it'd be a force to level the playing field for all artists and give the little guys a fair chance to compete with the bigger guys.
Spotify should give a subscriber's money to the artists one listens to. It's not just what's fair; it's common sense, and it would absolutely breathe a new life into the music industry.