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Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry

I don’t necessarily say it is or isnt spotifies fault, but how I see it is music kinda changed due to the digital age. Before the digital age, most people mostly needed to get into, or the eyes of a record label to get anywhere, and that had its fair share of dirty laundry (e.g whats happening with P Diddy). The digital age flipped the book around, where being able to publish music nowadays is extremely easy, but the problem is you’re competing against a wave of other users. It’s also significantly more expensive to do live concerts nowadays too (which is completely separate from spotify) as more and more concerts are getting canceled

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smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What do record labels actually do in this day and age? Artists don’t need their capital to produce physical media anymore, so is it just promotion? Are artists able to make promotion deals with the likes of Spotify so they can at least cut out one of the middlemen?

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- frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Spotify is the labels and the middlemen.
  
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  - smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The article implies otherwise
    
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calamitycastle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think this is a mature take. Spotify should be more heavily regulated ultimately. Without some controls then their service is inevitable. If it wasn’t Spotify it would be something else doing the same thing.

Likewise with touring, breaking up ticketmaster and livenation would be a great start, but then you still have the cost of running a venue which is harder in the current economic climate. Ultimately local governments should be subsidising venues to ensure that artists have viable spaces to perform.

Leaving it up to the market results in the situation you have now where people think it’s logical to pay 1000s for a Taylor Swift ticket, an insane exercise of pure greed.

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