![]() Last week, it was via author John Boyne, whose new historical novel, A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom, contains a passage about what is required to dye a dress red. Occasionally, though, a news story comes along that gives us a much-needed lift. Right now, the news cycle is mostly an unwelcoming pit of despair whose purpose seems to be to make dystopian novels look as if the writers lacked imagination. John Boyne: eye of newt… or is that Octorok? In Ek’s future landscape, there wouldn’t be just a 19, 21 and 25, there’d be a 20, 22, 23 and 24, too, and on, until the well runs dry. Fans can wait and often it is worth it after all, Adele is one of the biggest pop stars in the world and she has released three studio albums in 12 years. ![]() Telling artists to work harder at this time is astonishingly tone-deaf.īeyond the question of fairness, the idea of “continuous engagement” suggests that music is no more than a product, something to be pressed on the factory line and endlessly stuffed down the public’s greedy, unfulfilled throats. I also go to gigs and buy records and merchandise, yet I haven’t been able to do any of those things recently and may not be able to do so for some time. I know that £9.99 a month for access to almost all music, ever, is a steal. I pay for Spotify, so I am part of the problem. This is a bleak model that, when it works, works for pop, and while I would have argued that pop was music for a time in my 20s, it’s not going to be lucrative for anyone who isn’t Drake or Lady Gaga. (What, you wonder, could be in it for a musician to sweet talk the boss of the largest music subscription service in the world?) “Obviously, some artists that used to do well in the past may not do well in this future landscape, where you can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough,” he added, arguing that successful artists today have realised that “it’s about creating a continuous engagement with their fans”. ![]() He said that, while no artists will publicly say they’re happy with the income Spotify creates for them, from their own work, “in private, they have done that many times”.
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