Lily Allen On TIDAL: Fans Will “Swarm Back To Pirate Sites In Droves”
Lily Allen have never been once to mince words when she see's injustice. What makes her refreshing is that she's both smart and unfiltered without becoming a hater. Her latest target? Jay Z's TIDAL streaming music service.
Musicians Lilly Allen let loose on Twitter over the weekend questioning the purpose, value and effect of Jay-Z new exclusive driven paid music streaming service TIDAL.
i LOVE Jay z so much, but TIDAL is soon expensive compared to other perfectly good streaming services, he's taken the biggest Artists
— lily (@lilyallen) March 30, 2015
made them exclusive to TIDAL (am i right in thinking this ?), people are going to swarm back to Pirate sites in droves
— lily (@lilyallen) March 30, 2015
sending traffic to torrent sites. up and coming (not yet millionaires) artists are going to suffer as a result.
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
Allen is particularly concerned that exclusive content behind a paywall encourages piracy, and a Beyonce TIDAL exclusive track released on Saturday may have already proven her point. But that;s not her only criticism:
also, unless TIDAL start sending everyone good quality headphones, the resolution thing is kinda redundant.
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
we should all start making music with shit studio monitors #bridgingthegap
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
WE COULD JUST STRIKE TILL THE LABELS GIVE US OUR FAIR SHARE OF STREAMING REVENUE,NOT TAKE ADVANCES, NOT DELIVER MUSIC, FOR THE FUTURE ARTIST
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
Also troublesome to Allen is the wealth of TIDAL's 16 artist-partners:
A REAL REVOLUTION YEAH………..GUYS…………GUYS………….USHER?……….MADGE……. DAFT PUNKS ?? GUYS ???????? *WAVES AT YACHT*
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
who have helped me develop as an artist. My concern is that Tidal may set emerging artists back. Hosting exclusive consent from the biggest
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
Tidal should just be sitting back and taking notes on all this free advice. We’ll see if they make use of it…
guess this publication does not consider correct spelling and grammar son I guess I should not take it very serious
Saying that “Tidal is charging so much” is incorrect. Tidal is charging the going rate of $10/month (the same amount as Rhapsody, Spotify, Google Play Unlimited, and others) to stream compressed music. The $20/month rate is for higher quality uncompressed streams. If you don’t care about the difference you don’t have to pay the extra $10.