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Originally posted by Kim Kardashian
'yas spotify'
'the artists are being greedy!!!!!!'
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They are. People such as Taylor Swift are not hurting, and I don't know if you believe she genuinely cares about the other people who help her make the music she made (although I don't think many unknown people worked with Taylor on her last record), but she didn't protest streaming for them. She did it for herself.
This guy...yeah, only $5K for 178M streams might seem small, but why does he expect to live off of 1 song if he wasn't even the head writer (or singer, for that matter) of the song?
If you're a songwriter, you write multiple songs, you go to writing camps, etc. You don't just write one song and think "Ok, we're good to go for a few years!"...especially if you're only a co-writer and you didn't even sing the song.