also calls out the writers strike exploitative status quo, etc
"It's not working for the artist right now and I just want to speak to that. That's fucked up," he said. "The writers are striking because with streaming, they can't get paid."
also calls out the writers strike exploitative status quo, etc
"It's not working for the artist right now and I just want to speak to that. That's fucked up," he said. "The writers are striking because with streaming, they can't get paid."
Everything works that way, that's capitalism. It feels more directly exploitative when it's something like artistic talent having most of its revenue peeled off by middlemen, but literally all labor sold works this way. He's not wrong, just missing the forest for the trees.
Sure, but he also has a point about the increasing amount of layers of distance between the art and the consumer when it comes to streaming. People don't buy hand printed CDs from artists at venues anymore, they buy a subscription to Spotify, which gets music from a label, which hires producers, who exploit musicians. It's just another example of the extreme commodity fetishism we've become accustomed to over the years.