Holy s*** you’re f***ing brainless

It’s insane you came to this conclusion because this idea wasn’t even implied in James’s original post

Bro… re-read James Blake’s quote

What’s the solution to this? Consumers need to support artists through other means than streaming them?

I agree wit most of what hes saying except that artists not being paid well for streaming is the fault of greedy businesses.

Its actually the result of lazy, cheap music listeners who dont want to pay for music.

Spotify aint even profitable. If they could charge more and people would pay, they could pay out artists better but nobody tryna spend 100 bucks a month on a spotify account

Even tho back in the day, people used to spend way more on buying CDs and records

I mean they prolly should've done something when all of this started way before idk what they want now.

my goat

James’ rant has reverberated across the whole artist community, and this is the kind of takeaway your myopic-ass could up with? Jesus.

Streaming was only a band-aid for the mediafire era, for the industry to remain sustainable we always had to move on or pay more at some point

And if the money is moving back to labels they do need to do more in terms of artist investment instead of leeching off of fads for a quick buck over and over doing long term damage

Not to get too in the weeds but it is really weird that music has become “top of funnel” marketing. It’s basically a***ogous to those “free” PDFs scumbags make you sign up with your email for. Pretty depressing that’s what it’s come to.

You get 10 million streams and your cut is minimum wage. Streaming devalued it

in they defense nobody saw it getting this bad.

and streaming was supposed to be an answer to people bootlegging heavy.

As someone raised on liner notes, I would 100% love to just go out to get physicals again. I still have the macbook with the cd adapter.

the problem is, where's the profit

Idk if you’re missing what I’m saying. Musics become something you give away for free for the attention in return.. which you then monetize in other ways. I’m not saying that’s good, it just is

I'm just saying you have to do that if you want to make a living

Your last point is…like a super huge thing to just brush off bro lol

Ain’t nobody making tik toks with Tyler’s music 😂 why he speaking on it

I still get physicals. It’s always a cool experience opening up a new CD out the package

Yedolf Yitler co sign

Maybe cause he’s also a fan of music?

James Blake stuns in new statement

22, now 23 replies. I know niggas were all up in your ass lol

Genuinely racking my brain. I know I'm super removed as a giant music nerd but the way the avg tiktok user consumes music could never make sense to me; it's hyper-commercialized, saran-wrapped ready-to-eat sound bites that are almost anti-art and like Blake said no one benefits off of.

However in the same breath, Blake tweets stuff like this so...