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I don't blame artists who would rather sign independently, then go with a huge record label. It's sad that there's so much exploitation in the music industry. 💔

Yh. Some music industries can be toxic, especially in K-pop. They overwork them, exploit them, and treat them as money-making machines. This is why some musicians and singers committed suicide 😢. The music industries are also manipulative.

This is why most artist would rather do music independently than signing into a major label. And I can’t blame them.

I have recen😅😅😮tly been asking myself why so many artists are unstable: Greed, abuse and exploitation by music execs or others seems to be the basic answers. This is a shame. THANK you for this video! ❤

I FEEL A GREAT AMOUNT OF SYMPATHY OF UPCOMING ARTISTS AND THE THINGS THEY NEED TO GO THREW TO FOLLOW THEIR DREAMS

The industry always steals so much from the artist and the artists see barely anything in return.

Being an independent artist has ups and downs (just not to a blatantly extreme extent), but at least the creative output of artists who take such a route won't be explicitly exploited or have their material controlled by major labels. Such dark truths of the music industry go back decades. Pretty upsetting for sure. I'm all for creative independence for everyone.

Also, misrepresenting Black rock and metal bands as R&B, funk or soul. And K-Pop deserves its own list

i remember q-tip from a tribe called quest did an interview. he said an artist has to sell tons and tons of albums, songs, and air play just to earn a living. most if not all the money an artist receives are loans and or advances.

This is why I never wanna be famous, just successful and rich, but not famous.

“One likes to believe in the freedom of music, but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity” - RUSH “The Spirit of Radio”

Loved that you featured the ladies from Kittie. Seriously amazing people.

"Baby It Is Tragic This Is Bad Real Bad Michael Jackson" Kanye West ft. Estelle

To me it's Fan Exploitation. Happy monday afternoon, Sophia. Take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well.

Thank you for the insights into this very explorative industry

The music world can be the devil. especially the payola scandal.

Good points, but it would have been more legit and persuasive to use real live examples of contracts, court battles/testimony and issues and not cartoon and clips from fiction movies.

As someone who had my knee dipped in the music industry. It’s very true. I turned back before I lost my normal life due to ALOT of stuff that was on this list. I was very fortunate with the small label I was with that they were good people.

Gatekeeping , also on some tours the people running it Sometimes encourage the stars to take drugs

Thank you for the insights into this very exploitative industry

And this is why I don’t use Spotify. “Popular” artists get all the money while local artists get squashed to obscurity. Makes me want to set up a streaming farm for independent music artists

To quote the Loud House: sometimes you gotta play the game to get the fame. It’s sick how the music industry is so flawed and bad, not sick in a good way. No wonder so many musicians are drug addicts or alcoholics or have serious falls from grace, sometimes its ends in the forever sleep. K-pop artists too get worked for hours on end to the point of collapse and exhaustion, and they’re lucky if they last 3 years in the industry. We true diehard fans will always hold on to our favorites, ShiNee and Junyeun will live on forever baby.

this is why i listen to stations like radio paradise and wfmu, not commercial music radio with it’s SSDD

what about fasn thinking their favorite artists owe them everything? that is a sign of deranged fans.

The ripping of of artists on ticket sales and merch pisses me off.

8:27 Hence, "Video Killed the Radio Star".

Maybe being a normal civilian isn't a bad thing.

In the 1980s teen singing prodigy stuck with family...her mom managed her career therefore Debbie Gibson could continue to write, produce, & sing HER music. I believe Taylor Swift is the same

I think that most modern music just feels manufactured nowadays, there's no magic to music now, after the 2010's, i didn't like much of it if i'm honest

There's a reason for the old saying "Women have to work 10x harder just to get half the recognition."

4:03 which Loudwire video is this? Asking for a friend

As a metalhead, I'm wondering whether metal artists are also victims of exploitation? Because I think doing 'whatever the hell we wanna do' is kind of a metalhead's motto so it would be sad if metal artists don't actually get to be their own boss and make the music they wanna make.

People like Taylor Swift just make it look so easy to be a hugely successful pop star. She makes all of the touring look easy. She makes keeping up a good appearance look easy. She makes writing, recording, and producing music look easy.

Should do a list on music streaming sites? Spotify: how much CEO makes How many layoffs they did this year? How much they're paying Joe Rogan in New contract. Same for ticketmaster.

listening to taylor swift's new song. I just can't get over the fact that she's a billionaire. your boyfriend dump you boohoo You have a billion dollars we go through a break up or something bad happens to us .we gotta do it without a billion dollars

Hmmm... ARMY warned y'all about a good portion of this but we were told it's not true, we're lying, all while doing what we could to ensure that our favorites got the flowers they rightfully deserve.

Fan exploitation. All of these aspects, I don’t know how artists do it without losing their love and passion for doing what they love, hurting themselves or worse. It also makes me wonder if this is the life for those who want to be in the performing and entertainment careers.

The expectation of sexual promiscuity associated with image that projects onto particularly young fan bases, the Britney Spears "in underwear" paradigm emulated by girls far too young to understand it, is disturbing... KDM

Motown Had its share of Issues with doing some shady things with its own artists. - Coral- Brunswick(Decca - MCA) also had some shady issues with artists... this includes Buddy Holly(Charles Hardin Holly) I am not sure if Del Fi and Mercury Took advantage of its Musicians. but there are quite a few artists who have gone through some shady times! The Beatles, even had their shoare of hard times. Paul McCartney even had to sue his own band mates to break a shady and potentially destructive contract. so, The Recording Industry association Of America(RIAA) has done a lot of shady things!

You forgot selling their soul to the devil for fame!

Anybody here ever seen or heard of the channel “Lion of Judah”?

K-pop is really bad . They starve themselves . 😢 I saw a video about it .

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Why does the host sound of her face?

Seriously, becoming a BTS fan taught me how much the American music industry can seriously suck if it just puts it's mind to putting an artist down None of this is new to us

Dog eat dog ! industry, anything you can get away with.

But Beyonce had one of the best of the best music of all time

Why is GROOMING not on the list?

As a Trans woman I am trying to get in the music industry but will do my research first xx

As much as I appreciated this video I have to say you forgot one key thing: what are you willing to do to get fame? People need to be told about how artist kill people important to them in order to get to the top. Many of the big artists are only that big because they sold their souls to get money ( Doja cat paint the town red lyric stating "bitch I said what I said id rather be rich and famous instead, she is being blatantly obvious in saying she would rather follow the devil and make money). Other artists who decide they no longer want to do what they need to do to stay famous get replaced (Ariana grande, Avril Lavine). If you don't want to keep doing it, they clone you and distort your image. Or you just get blacklisted from the industry. People like T Swift who get $$$ to the company in order to be famous (yes her parents literally paid for her fame they were already involved in those industries) actually agree with all this bs which is why SHE has changed her morals and hasn't been replaced. All the devil imagery they are doing is not on accident. They know what they are doing, sexual assault, rape, and cloning are all part of their M.O Call me a conspiracy theorist all you want but MANY of the small artists are better than the one's who get radio hits. Disney is also part of it as well. If you wonder how Sabrina Carpenter got to tour with Taylor all of a sudden: it's some shady shit. You could be the most innocent person and then in order to get anywhere near the level of fame to make the money needed you basically have to chuck your morals out the window. There is a reason religious/ conservative views are so negatively looked at: because they tell the truth. Ice Spice controversy was all to get her name more out there, Taylor is just the gateway.

So what do you want me to do about these issues?

I hate to break it to you but "objectification" isn't just a woman thing. As male singers had to wear tight pants or appear shirtless. But the double standards that's it's only wrong when it happens to women

Are you single Sophie?

I can’t feel sorry for any of these people. You get what you sign up for in life, just like everyone else. They didn’t have to sign that contract, they did it because they either didn’t read it or didn’t care about the demands of the label they were going to be signing with and all they care about was fame and fortune but I didn’t work out the way they planned, just like the rest of society. That’s on them for not doing their homework and having a lawyer get involved. Also, payola isn’t really much of a thing anymore, that was just filler for this stupid video. People that work a regular job also suffer from exhaustion, mental health issues, support from their employer and financial difficulties. Just because these people are in the music industry, doesn’t mean we should have any more sympathy for them than we do for the rest of society. If they don’t like how their life is going, get out and do something that does. I can’t feel one bit sorry for them.