Is streaming good for musicians".
The debate simply put is exactly that! Is streaming good for musicians? This debate has been going on for years and years and many artists have protested their music being easily played for free but Taylor Swift is the first to remove all her music off of the main website, "Spotify". This article nicely protrays both sides of this disagreement by asking experts in the music industy who fall on both sides.
The first expert, Suzzane Vega, whom is also a singer/songwriter and has first hand experience say, "Seems to me that we need to relearn that songs and albums have value, music is an art form, like any other". Suzzane simply puts into perspective that this is their living! They make money based off of how many albums are sold and if everyone is just streaming it for free it kind of defeats that.
George Howard, a professor at the prestigous music school of berklee, agreees with Suzzane and Taylor swift, "If it takes a thousand streams of a song to make what the label grosses in one download album, then the decision to leave spotify is an obvious one." Howard goes on to talk about how Taylor both writes and sings her own songs,
Just last week I was shamelessly dancing around my kitchen with my friends as we streamed Taylor Swifts new album through spotify. Majority of her new hits where catchy and fun and we liked that we could throw in a few of her throwbacks aswell. We got to choose which songs from which albums played and that is why we use spotify. So upon receiving this assignment I of course choose to pick the article debating whether or not Taylor is setting a trend for fellow musicians in New York Times opinion section, "The debate simply put is exactly that! Is streaming good for musicians? This debate has been going on for years and years and many artists have protested their music being easily played for free but Taylor Swift is the first to remove all her music off of the main website, "Spotify". This article nicely protrays both sides of this disagreement by asking experts in the music industy who fall on both sides.
The first expert, Suzzane Vega, whom is also a singer/songwriter and has first hand experience say, "Seems to me that we need to relearn that songs and albums have value, music is an art form, like any other". Suzzane simply puts into perspective that this is their living! They make money based off of how many albums are sold and if everyone is just streaming it for free it kind of defeats that.
George Howard, a professor at the prestigous music school of berklee, agreees with Suzzane and Taylor swift, "If it takes a thousand streams of a song to make what the label grosses in one download album, then the decision to leave spotify is an obvious one." Howard goes on to talk about how Taylor both writes and sings her own songs,