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this is so fucked?? and the last clip is literally little mix’s situation?
This is why merch is so expensive, why concert tickets are so expensive, why some artists beg you not to illegally download their album, why big artists fight so hard for small artists, why it’s a problem that streaming sites/apps don’t pay the artists enough.
Record labels are literally like old school Hollywood studios – they own their artists in every sense of the word. And they exploit them.
For a source, this is from “Artifact” which was Jared Leto and 30STM fighting their record label and them documenting the process. This was a fascinating documentary, and this clip above is one of the reasons.