What pisses me off about this was a video I saw on youtube a few years ago. Originally recorded from a twitch stream.
Snoop dogg was to be interviewed by some music promotion stream. He showed up 45 minutes late, and when the host was interviewing him, he asked why snoop was so late. To which snoop responded with something like “DAAAAMN! I’M HERE, AIN’T I??? DON’T WORRY WHY I’M LATE! YOU ASKIN STUPID QUESTIONS! I GET HERE WHEN I WANT TO GET HERE! THIS IS RIGHT ON TIME!!! WE WENT TO GO GET CHICKEN! CAN’T A MAN GO GET CHICKEN???”
Then later in the interview they asked him about when he was going to release a new album. And he responded by going off on a rant about how albums don’t make money. Then he started saying all he made from spotify from people playing Doggystyle (the album that made him famous back in 1993) was $42,000 in a month.
He was complaining about getting $42,000 from an album that came out almost 30 years prior at that point. All he did was grant spotify the right to stream his music. He didn’t record new music. He didn’t make some new project. All he did was sign a contract to make passive money from songs that were recorded a decade before most listeners were even born.
I lost all respect for him when he casually dismissed an entire year worth of some peoples pay, to be paid to him monthly, for doing nothing. He acted entitled that it wasn’t enough. That it was insultingly low pay for a month of work.
As much as he’s wrong to take that tone, I’m not defending spotify either. They’ve been caught, multiple times, creating fictional AI bands, so the small amount they do pay, they don’t have to pay. The idea was to slowly push real artists out, and create new pop culture icons discovered through their app. Which they don’t have to pay for ever.
I don’t know what the plan is if ever their plan had worked, and people started demanding a tour.
What pisses me off about this was a video I saw on youtube a few years ago. Originally recorded from a twitch stream.
Snoop dogg was to be interviewed by some music promotion stream. He showed up 45 minutes late, and when the host was interviewing him, he asked why snoop was so late. To which snoop responded with something like “DAAAAMN! I’M HERE, AIN’T I??? DON’T WORRY WHY I’M LATE! YOU ASKIN STUPID QUESTIONS! I GET HERE WHEN I WANT TO GET HERE! THIS IS RIGHT ON TIME!!! WE WENT TO GO GET CHICKEN! CAN’T A MAN GO GET CHICKEN???”
Then later in the interview they asked him about when he was going to release a new album. And he responded by going off on a rant about how albums don’t make money. Then he started saying all he made from spotify from people playing Doggystyle (the album that made him famous back in 1993) was $42,000 in a month.
He was complaining about getting $42,000 from an album that came out almost 30 years prior at that point. All he did was grant spotify the right to stream his music. He didn’t record new music. He didn’t make some new project. All he did was sign a contract to make passive money from songs that were recorded a decade before most listeners were even born.
I lost all respect for him when he casually dismissed an entire year worth of some peoples pay, to be paid to him monthly, for doing nothing. He acted entitled that it wasn’t enough. That it was insultingly low pay for a month of work.
As much as he’s wrong to take that tone, I’m not defending spotify either. They’ve been caught, multiple times, creating fictional AI bands, so the small amount they do pay, they don’t have to pay. The idea was to slowly push real artists out, and create new pop culture icons discovered through their app. Which they don’t have to pay for ever.
I don’t know what the plan is if ever their plan had worked, and people started demanding a tour.
Hatsune Miku is one way to do it.
Another is to make hologram concerts, which I believe have been done with deceased artists