Music that has more weight takes longer bands that make a living and artistically thrive in a live setting can’t put albums out at a predictable pace like that.” Yes those forms of music are easy to make happen and often a whole career of someone in that field will be 3-4 years. Gabriel Marin from Consider the Source spoke on this matter saying, “People like Ek seem to only look at pop and commercial music as how all music is made. Ben Albert of Rochester Groovecast thinks Daniel Ek’s remarks are, “Disrespectful” saying that, “Music is not a fast food chain.” The fact that Spotify’s CEO believes that artists aren’t working hard enough and should just turn out more music is disheartening to the music community particularly those who are on the road a lot and believe in creating more complex and artistically driven music. Musicians are not happy about this mindset in the music industry that Daniel Ek has been promotin. Daniel Ek explained that, “ What tends to be reported are the people that are unhappy, but we very rarely see anyone who’s talking about… In the entire existence I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single artist saying, ‘I’m happy with all the money I’m getting from streaming.” Which begs the question, are artists not working hard enough or are they just not being properly compensated for their work by streaming services? Daniel Ek stated in an interview with Music Ally that, “There is a narrative fallacy here, combined with the fact that, 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,” essentially putting the lack of revenue the artists own fault.
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