EP 11: DOWNSTREAM (Liz Pelly)
New Models
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The Myth of Spotify
Spotify is not all evil and it's really useful for some bands but i think the interesting thing is that we're seeing again the mechanics of the platform which most people right is exerting a lot more pressure. There are rare examples of viral success stories which spotify loves to talk about too because that proves that their platform works or whatever. I don't want to downplay that or say that like it's wrong that they use it in that way or whatever it's the music environment that we live in. But at the same time there's artists who aren't even human who are getting millions of streams a month later look at the earth joyreally really well. Those artists even had
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