Noah Berlatsky: The Spotify CEO's pledge to spend $100,000,000 on 'content from historically marginalized groups” ignores the music industry's broader contempt for artists. - NBCNewsTHINK
Spotify is not advancing this sort of narrative, but you can see the same underlying logic at work. Spotify isn’t compensating artists for the full value of their work, but it is in a position to be generous with the money it has taken from them. Now, it is offering to give back some of that money as a PR move., have insisted that defending the podcaster is a matter of free speech. “Don’t censor, engage,” Stewart quipped.
Musicians don’t want charity. They want to be paid what they’re due and ideally to have some say in how the product of their labor is used. Ek’s condescending promise to marginalized musicians is just the latest example of how much contempt the music industry has for the people who create music. If you care about free speech, you should spare a thought for the people who can’t stop singing for you and for Rogan, no matter how little they are paid.
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