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You didn't have to take it in a personal insult direction friend. It's such a common response to an issue you really do not understand. I'll refrain from salty

You didn't have to take it in a personal insult direction friend. It's such a common response to an issue you really do not understand. I'll refrain from salty comments concerning the quality of my work because you're already sold on the ideal that the platform is totally ethical, despite many well selling artists saying the same things I have numerous times. The platforms exist to promote artists, they do not do that at all. It's really not for me to defend the merits of my work in response to expressing my experience on the platform... It's really not for you to insult someone you know nothing about, who says they've worked hard. You should really think about that... I have solid success in many other places than Spotify, and that's why I dedicate my time there and not to Spotify.

hetspookjee 4y ago
I find it odd that you seem rather adamant on the skill that goes into your own music, yet seem to disregard the noise genre as a whole and call it unfair that it gets that much attention. Indeed the world is not fair, but to discredit other peoples work that a lot of others seem to appreciate seems as a moot point. I listen to a lot of music, mostly noise / ambient / drone and do so mostly during work, so the hours stack up quite rapidly. Per the Spotify model this is quite beneficial for the artist. But I am rather picky in the noise I appreciate so in the end it’s not that many songs I keep. Most I visit once and turn off halfway. So I definitely wouldn’t want to call it easy to create good ambient / noise. Anyway the other day I saw a YouTube video with 116M views of 9 minutes long that showed hands going into slime. Now compared with a video from say Carfection or PBS EON, that’s quite odd than.
- winternett 4y ago
  I never commented on the overall quality of the ambient drone genre... I don't know where you got that unimportant idea? There are people literally recording ceiling fans and then putting it on Spotify, and using low-effort production techniques like play bots to steal royalties from hard working artists. That's what I'm referring to. The only way that Spotify can really fix that is to rely less on algorithms, ban payola, and bring back real curators... But for the sake of their profit, that's not likely to ever happen. This article is about a platform of hundreds of thousands of artists (or more) and you're using 2-3 artists you loosely observed to say that everything is fair. Thats not a real conversation at all rooted in fact. Far off the topic of making it about me.

hetspookjee 4y ago

I find it odd that you seem rather adamant on the skill that goes into your own music, yet seem to disregard the noise genre as a whole and call it unfair that it gets that much attention. Indeed the world is not fair, but to discredit other peoples work that a lot of others seem to appreciate seems as a moot point. I listen to a lot of music, mostly noise / ambient / drone and do so mostly during work, so the hours stack up quite rapidly. Per the Spotify model this is quite beneficial for the artist. But I am rather picky in the noise I appreciate so in the end it’s not that many songs I keep. Most I visit once and turn off halfway. So I definitely wouldn’t want to call it easy to create good ambient / noise. Anyway the other day I saw a YouTube video with 116M views of 9 minutes long that showed hands going into slime. Now compared with a video from say Carfection or PBS EON, that’s quite odd than.

winternett 4y ago
I never commented on the overall quality of the ambient drone genre... I don't know where you got that unimportant idea? There are people literally recording ceiling fans and then putting it on Spotify, and using low-effort production techniques like play bots to steal royalties from hard working artists. That's what I'm referring to. The only way that Spotify can really fix that is to rely less on algorithms, ban payola, and bring back real curators... But for the sake of their profit, that's not likely to ever happen. This article is about a platform of hundreds of thousands of artists (or more) and you're using 2-3 artists you loosely observed to say that everything is fair. Thats not a real conversation at all rooted in fact. Far off the topic of making it about me.