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Decoder with Nilay Patel cover image

It's brutal out here: Olivia Rodrigo and how the music business makes songwriters fight over credits

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Music in the Street - What's the State of Play for Song Writers?

"Song writers are more nervous than ever. Song writers and artists are speaking a lot less candidly about who their influences are because of a fear of a olivia rodrigo type situation," she says. "I think that any time that we are starting to litigate the building blocks of an art form, we start to inhibit the way in which people express themselves."

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