Posted on 03/28/2024 5:26:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Count Sheryl Crow among the growing number of famous musicians dismayed by the paltry payments artists receive from Spotify.
The beloved singer, and 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, was recently a guest on Club Random with Bill Maher. The two compared recent trends in the music industry, compared to when Crow was starting out.
“[Now] you create your brand, you advertise yourself, you sell yourself,” the singer explained. “Then the music is just a byproduct of that, and you're selling yourself so that you can sell tickets and get advertisers. That was never part of the way I came up. There just was none of that. In fact, until Bob Dylan did the Victoria's Secret ad (in 2004), nobody did advertisements or took money for anything except for playing music and selling records. So, it's a different thing [now].”
When Maher pointed out that modern artists can’t make money on music alone, especially given the small royalties paid by Spotify, Crow emphatically agreed.
“You cannot make money,” the nine-time Grammy winner declared. “It makes me sad and sick.”
“I hate it because, for me, when you sold records, you knew you had your people,” Crow continued, explaining the connect artists used to make with their fans. “They're people. They were into what you're doing. How does it even work now?”
Rock Stars Slam Spotify's Practices
Crow is far from the first major artist to criticism Spotify’s business practices. David Byrne, the Black Keys and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke are just some of the other rocker’s who’ve called attention to the paltry sums the streamer pays artists. In December, Dee Snider pointed a finger directly at Spotify’s billionaire CEO, Daniel Ek.
“Spotify, the wholesale, you pay the one monthly fee [format], we’re getting so, so little. And that guy from Spotify, he should be taken out and shot," the Twisted Sister frontman declared. "When he heard that artists were complaining about how little we were paid, his response was ‘make more music.’ Like we’re producing cans of Coke.”
End result will be to kill off the arts.
My toilet paper roll earlier today had one sheet remaining. I remembered Sheryl Crow’s ridiculous statement that we should only be using one sheet per wipe. You first Sheryl.
All I remember is the parody song on El Rushbo’s song....All I want to do, is screw the world.
Can she use but a single square of tp to dry her tears?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsFrFQ-F64Y&t=30s
It doesn’t seem too bad. But he never did another, apparently.
As far as I know, no musician has made money off of me in over 40 years, unless I bought a non-music related product they were paid to endorse.
How the hell did this lightweight when 9 Grammys? That’s crazy. I remember like two of her songs and they were mediocre at best. I would put Meat Loaf, Tom Scholz, New Order and even Beck in the Hall before this nitwit.
Sounds like she was describing Taylor Swift.
Marginally talented
Dull witted
Marketing genius
From what I understand, Spotify pays you so they can play and resell your songs. Don’t let them play your songs and they can’t ripp you off anymore. What’s the problem. If enough musicians boycott Spotify the deal will change. We used to call that capitalism.
I could never stand Meat Loaf. The singer, not the food.
Those one sheet of toilet paper losers did it to themselves. The younger generations want everything free and they aren’t paying for anything they think should be free like college diplomas and crappy Kindergarten Rock “music”. “Beloved Sheryl Crow”. Funny line. ROTFL!
“beloved singer”????? Isn’t she the one who said we should wipe ourselves with one sheet of toilet paper?????
Get a real job beyotch!
Spotify pays so little, many musicians are being forced to give up their cocaine and heroin addictions.
“Like we’re producing cans of Coke.”
There’s a lot more flavor and variety in a can of Coke than in a lot of “music” on Spotify. Modern music is cranked out as fast as any soda canning line. Turn on the synth, drum and beat machines, screech some unintelligible insipid words, and declare “done!”
Get a part-time job to make ends meet. Oh wait.
Recorded music is now a free commercial ad for the live performance.
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