This chapter explores the nostalgia-industrial complex in the music industry and discusses a unique marketing campaign involving Aerosmith's song 'Dream On' and a lottery tie-in. It also delves into the potential for music publishing rights holders to explore new marketing strategies through examples like inventing a biopic based on the home recordings of Kurt Cobain.
A lot of our new hit music sounds just like our parents’ old hit music. Pitchfork’s Jayson Greene says you should blame publishing companies.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Serena Solin, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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