Songwriters are getting screwed by streaming media(variety.com) |
Songwriters are getting screwed by streaming media(variety.com) |
Platforms are luring millions of people to jump from one get-rich-scheme to another. Each platform has its own technical ways of getting ahead of other creators and locking in content creators and consumers. It feels very much like a serfdom or tenant farming situation, only for entertainment.
If being a content creator means mastering some technical platform or jumping through a bunch of social hoops unrelated to your art, if you spend all of your time feeding the machine, are you really an artist? What happens to art in general?