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Simply, Spotify is allegedly purchasing songs from production companies who essentially make copy-cat songs.
The music is built to sound like other artists' songs while costing Spotify pennies on the dollar.
For fans of music it “it raises worrying questions for all of us who listen to music.”
What genres are infected with ghost musicians?
Examples include genres like chill beats or lo-fi house.
As Harper’s says, why pay royalties for songs that people aren’t paying attention to?
There are already a ton of artists producing this music on Spotify.
But the PFC program undermined all this."
That said, according to Pelly, a number of Spotify editors were apparently against this process.
But what about AI?
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