Jack Antonoff Is Wrong

Jack Antonoff: “I’m Loving Where The Music Business Has Gone”

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Follow your melon:

[purplehaze]

Jack Antonoff (one of the wealthiest people in music): the industry is good actually!

99% of other musicians (exploring new exciting levels of being broke): idk man

[re_detach]

No discredit to Jack's work; but they are definitely happy with the state of the industry cause it's worked well for them. Survivorship Bias 101.

[thunder____]

"World hunger has ended because I ate today."
-Jack Antonoff, 2023

[erikdanielsn]

“I like the way the industry is going” he says while talking about a song that he wrote with and produced for an artist who is now one of the biggest, not just pop stars, not just musicians, but CELEBRITIES on the planet and who has one of the most rabid fanbases out there. I love Jack, I love his work with Taylor, and I think Cruel Summer is about as close to pop perfection as you can get, and I’m happy to finally see it getting the love it deserves, but he can’t act like it was just some random thing. Taylor performing it on her tour, which is currently one of the highest grossing tours ever, didn’t hurt anything, let’s be honest

[AdrianBrth]

Fantano succesfully transformed himself into an argentinian golfer who listens to Death Grips as he's combating culture war and his inner love for baguettes.

[xwexarexbulletsx]

"I love that the music business is thriving on fandom obsession and adoration based on random picks for going viral!", says the man who can retire right now and not work any more until his death because he has produced albums for the biggest Musical ATMs in the universe, meanwhile the rest of the independent artists that barely reach 100 views/listens can go screw themselves.

[MoMo-rxzr]

Even as a Swiftie, I acknowledge that he’s dead-wrong. The worst throw-away Taylor songs will chart in favor of better songs from less exposed artists that would appeal to a wider public simply because a few thousand fans streaming the same song over and over wether they even like it or not. I literally saw a tweet from someone saying they were streaming “Is It Over?” instead of their favorite song from her newest release, “Now That We Don’t Talk” simply because the fandom decided that would be the song they mass stream to number 1. Is it supposed to be somehow better that biggest artist’s fans are manipulating the market instead of record labels?

[HORNGEN]

Of course Jack would say that. Good example of a privileged, totally out of touch description of reality.

[max-beckett]

Been saying this for time. The resources to find less mainstream music have never been more accessible, but to the passive or more apathetic listener, they’ll still take whatever they’re given.

[kwksht]

Actually amazingly comical that Jack's example of how the industry is improving is that people started liking one of his songs that he thought people were underrating. His reasoning is basically just "the industry is getting better, why? Because the fans like me more and I didn't even have to pay for it"

[ChrisCanberg]

the example is just weird...Taylor Swift is the biggest artist on the planet right now and has been all year. Cruel Summer isn't the only track of hers that's gotten a viral boost; it's happening to all of her stuff.

[zackorr]

You are right . Jack is wrong. Spotify blows and Bandcamp is on the way out. Major labels have sweetheart deals to take the profits from indie artists. It’s beginning to look a lot like pre-MP3 times.

[JagoFett]

As someone who listens to all my music on YouTube i gotta be honest, youtube really likes to recommend smaller artist to me like crazy, a lot of times stuff with like 100 - 1000 views. Almost every time without fail these artists are solid. I have never used spotify so i dont know what the experience is like but i think youtubes algorithm from peesonal experience does a good job at promoting smaller artist.

[RattlesnakeJakey]

Cruel summer succeeded exclusively on its merits and has nothing to do with being a song by one of the most popular and industry backed artists in the entire world. Obviously.

[Steve]

97% of artists on Spotify have made under $1000 on the platform. And of over 470k artists that got over 1k listens in a month last year, at most 39% of those made over $1000

[invertanchoress]

Jack Anton off??? who tf is Anton and what would be wrong with that

[JM-ftlw]

i feel like i’ve experienced this in real time. i listen to taylor for a week and i am bombarded with taylor and taylor adjacent all over my account and front page and suggestions. i listen to jessie ware for a week (admittedly still quite a sizeable artist) and it maybe whispers a jessie song into my suggesteds afterwards. i like two harry styles songs but i can’t even listen to them because my spotify tries to convert me into a mega stan every time i try to just put them on for the first time in over a month

[juliettedemaso]

It’s exciting for Jack because he’s on top of the lever box. When the owning class says “us” they mean “me”. I’m pretty exhausted with people who have extraordinary resources, leverage and voice continuing to platform a tiny few who’ve already been around for at least a decade, siphoning all the bandwidth. These are choices inasmuch as a Cosmopolitan quiz asking you what you do on Sunday and there’s four multiple choice answers: a) buy Dior b) hang out in the Delta lounge c) hang out in the Delta Lounge buying Dior d) buying Dior before you head to the Delta Lounge

[beansfebreeze]

Damn straight he is! Now to watch the video and find out what he said!

[alx.burgir]

Remember when they tackled streaming platforms for not paying small artists? Now Spotify wants to make it even worse and the two of them are silenttt.