I have discovered so many great musicians, bands, and artists that I would have never heard of before, through Pandora, because mainstream but generic "musicians" like Bey and Jay and Madge and others suck the air out of the room and leave no space for smaller perhaps less radio friendly acts.
Like everyone should be talking about Jose Gonzalez right now and his new album and not these entitled twats. Thanks to Pandora for leading me to Jose Gonzalez!!!
Modern music is so generic. Here's my small violin for all these generic but rich a holes. Maybe make better music and people will want to buy your stuff. There's a thought!
I stream Pandora for free, I don't mind the ocassional advertisement that pops up. I can't see myself paying $10-$20 per month for basically the same thing.
Me to. LL Cool J station is the shit for working out right now.
So is something already going down? Because I already pay $15 a month for my Zune subscription and all of a sudden 1/4 of my downloads are "no longer available". I PAID MY MONIES!
I do think they have a legitimate point in that streaming music, et al shouldn't be free. HOWEVER, they are doing it in such a blow-hard way that no one is going to listen to their big heads.
The legal versions aren't free, though. You either pay a subscription or pay by listening to adds. A musician friend from college has written about how Spotify is good to him as an independent artist:
So is the real problem that people just don't actually value music enough to pay for it?
I really, truly think this is it. A huge cultural shift happened very rapidly, right at the time the first Millennials were coming of age. A perfect storm for the music industry.
They just showed a commercial for Tidal during the Wisconsin Kentucky game. The commercial was about as tone-deaf as described in the article above. MH had no idea what the commercial was for.
Did you guys see that Sprint released a statement after that Tidal presser? I wonder what prompted them to distance themselves from it -- I assume that maybe someone implied that Sprint has a bigger role than they do, to make Tidal sound more important/established?
LOL at Jay Z et al, though, when telecom black sheep Sprint is telling you to slow your roll.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (BUSINESS WIRE), April 02, 2015 - Sprint confirms that it is in discussions with Tidal, the new music streaming platform launched earlier this week, to determine how to best to make the service available to its customers. It further clarifies that it has not made an investment in Tidal. We are working together in partnership for the vision of the common cause of reestablishing the value of music, it is NOT a financial investment or exclusive partnership.
Sprint also confirms that, similarly, its parent company SoftBank Corp. has not purchased a stake in Tidal.