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George Johnson retweeted
Could we have your permission to let listeners make terrible versions of your songs and then share them? 😂 You know, so people hearing these for the first time will think this is what you put your name to.... Spotify having a laugh, as they do.
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
George Johnson retweeted
"On behalf of all the Tower Of Power family past and present I'm sending our sincere condolences to the loved ones and friends of Taka Sakurai. Taka was our dearest friend in Tokyo and he started our Japanese fan club known as the FunKlub.
George Johnson retweeted
No no no… This is not how I want my music to be experienced at all. 🥁
As a jazz musician, I believe deeply in reinterpretation. But there is a profound difference between an artist bringing a new perspective to a piece of music and AI reshaping it to satisfy individual preferences.
I fundamentally disagree with this model. Music should invite us into another person’s imagination, not simply reflect our own tastes.
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
George Johnson retweeted
This sucks a bag of dicks. It's always been possible for anyone to remix a song, it just took effort and genuine desire. Nothing created without those factors will ever be worth listening to.
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
George Johnson retweeted
Dear @Spotify
Stop doing crap like this. You are actively destroying music and the creation of it. You don’t love music. You don’t even like it. All you care about is money. I hope this is your downfall.
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
George Johnson retweeted
Tim Dillon: “You can’t put your faith in any politician.”
“They say a lot.”
“They get elected.”
“They do far less.”
“All of them.”
“If your life sucks now, it’s probably not going to get that much better in the next two years.”
“I hope that these people make people’s lives better.”
“I’ve been alive 42 years.”
“They haven’t yet.”
@TimJDillon
George Johnson retweeted
Coming to Florida unless we fight back and hold corrupt politicians accountable 👇
George Johnson retweeted
Bill Maher takes aim at mask-wearing attendees at Democratic Socialists of America meetings, questioning what wearing a mask has to do with fighting for affordable rent.
“The pandemic is over. At this point, the only thing you’re stopping from spreading is socialism.”
George Johnson retweeted
This is why you shouldn't fear them shutting down the banks, because that's the day we clear out the government.
These guys don't even have guns.
It's all about perspective.
George Johnson retweeted
Randy Fine flew to Israel with Ron DeSantis and Mike Caruso, (who was recently charged with molesting his own grandson), to sign an anti-speech bill making criticism of Israel illegal in the state of Florida. They gifted Netanyahu the pen. Here are examples from the bill:
George Johnson retweeted
My dad has CLL cancer, a blood cancer from spraying crops for 40 years.
Pretty much every old farmer around here either has cancer or is already dead from it.
My father in law farmed his whole life, dead from cancer at 68.
Fuck Susie
Fuck RFK for not saying shit about it.
🚨 BREAKING SUSIE WILES: "How does something known to cause cancer get liability protection?" - @joerogan
Calley Means answers, explaining how Susie Wiles was "legally" paid-off to help keep cancer-causing glyphosate in the US Food supply and exempt it from legal liability via an Executive Order and a Supreme Court brief. But it gets worse.
Means also reveals that Iowa and other Midwestern farm states have the highest rates of cancer in the "history of the world."
So not only did Susie Wiles actively alienate White men from the Republican Party and abandon them—as I showed you yesterday—she's also responsible for helping accelerate their deaths across the heartland of America, and making all of America sicker—without legal recourse!
99% of corn & 98% of soybeans are sprayed with this poison, as well as the wheat supply. Susie Wiles took a payday instead of protecting Americans from this poison.
Why is she breathing free air? But maybe more to the point: Why is an old fat woman anywhere near decisions relating to public health?
This is a frightening glimpse into how Washington really works and how unelected crooks rule & ruin our lives. The entire existence of our constitutional government is allegedly predicated on protecting us from this breathtaking abuse of our rights, not enabling it! This should be grounds for impeachment, IMO, and criminal prosecution.
What other bodies are buried in Susie's basement?
Watch this all the way to the end without blowing a gasket.
George Johnson retweeted
I'm not a woman? 🤣😂You clearly don't own any of my calendars.
Maybe because I'm not a 13 year old boy.
It became a problem when you stole the melody, the exact order of the notes. Chords don’t count but lawyers screwed that up since that’s what lawyers do for money. Argue insane points in front of stupid judges.
George Johnson retweeted
I think this is a mix of
1) the impact of “blurred lines” lawsuit
2) social media creators who share two somewhat similar songs back to back as ~content~
