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> Our single best hope is a cooperative streaming platform owned by labels and musicians. Remember when the music labels themselves were the baddies?
by klabetron 2y ago
> Our single best hope is a cooperative streaming platform owned by labels and musicians.
Remember when the music labels themselves were the baddies?
- throwawayian 2y agoTencent Music own almost 10%, UMG and Sony own almost 5% together, there are vested interests here.
- motorest 2y ago> Remember when the music labels themselves were the baddies? I remember when the biggest problem in music was how middlemen like labels had an oppressive role on music and didn't allowed artists to express themselves or even earn a buck from their work. As far as I know, that didn't changed.
- hansworst 2y agoPlenty of indie musicians nowadays that self-publish on platforms like Spotify and YouTube. That just wasn’t possible 30 years ago.
- motorest 2y ago> Plenty of indie musicians nowadays that self-publish on platforms like Spotify and YouTube. That just wasn’t possible 30 years ago. Precisely. What changed between then and now is that major labels no longer control distribution, and thus they no longer hold a oligopoly over what music we can consume. This is clearly something that benefits everyone, except the major labels. This fact alone makes me very sceptical of this blend of blog posts. It clearly pushes to go back to a time where everyone was screwed over by the music industry.
- saint_yossarian 2y agoYou can't self-publish on Spotify, you have to go through a distributor like DistroKid. Not sure how this works with YouTube Music though, I guess for actual music (sans video) you have to use a distributor as well.
- raincole 2y agoIt's just like traditional publishers and any "gatekeeper" ever existing. Creators hate them until they face the consumers directly. And then they'll realize what consumers want is actually slop, and the only entities keeping slops from being even slopper are the gatekeepers.