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Every now and then there's a big rant from someone in the music industry, who tries to get you upset that some other part of the music industry is an industry.
by davidgerard 5y ago
Every now and then there's a big rant from someone in the music industry, who tries to get you upset that some other part of the music industry is an industry.
Popular music has always been manufactured. "Tin Pan Alley" was a cliche rather than a place for decades before pop as we know it existed.
The people complaining about this are record companies who have just discovered that their A&R genius fails in direct A/B testing against muzak.
- iostream24 5y agoOtoh, actually misleading behavior should be legally punished. Spotify is not labeling their generic house brand music and pushing it to the top of charts to reduce royalties paid out. It’s akin to the Amazon in house knockoff problem and it’s illegal, when framed correctly and not made excuses for. You don’t throw your hands up and say what you said when a street construction company doesn’t finish a project on time, you fine em. Large entities who play games like this also get fined: see Eu and Google or Facebook recent legal precedents etc