Cradle of Filth’s Dani Filth Explains Why He Doesn’t Have a Spotify Account
Spotify and platforms like it are really problematic in how little they pay artists. At the same time, the Internet made it hard to prevent people from listening to music whenever they wanted without paying money to the artist, so some sort of a solution had to be devised. Streaming services seem to fill that gap, but the trade off, unfortunately, is that bands don’t really get paid very much. So, while I intend to keep using Apple Music, I can understand why some people have a problem with it. And Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth had a real problem with it.
In a recent interview with Sonic Perspectives (that was transcribed by Blabbermouth), Dani Filth gave his perspective on Spotify, saying:
“I owe it to my brethren in metal and music not to have a fucking Spotify account because they don’t pay people. And it’s not just them — it’s just platforms in general. And I appreciate the fact that from that people could discover you from another band and whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever; I’ve heard it a million times. But I’m old school. I want CDs, I want vinyl, I want my bands to be paid because if they’re not paid, they’re not bands anymore. And I know so many people from big bands that since the pandemic have gone, ‘You know what? I’m taking a proper job. So you’ll see me less often. We’ll still be doing albums, but probably once every five years,’ because music — it just seems like daylight robbery.”
He then continued:
“If you owned a delicatessen or a fucking supermarket even, people aren’t allowed to just come in and help themselves to free produce, which is what people think they’re entitled to do with music because it’s a periphery thing and it’s in the air. You can’t physically touch music. But how do you expect bands to survive without that? Okay, yeah, sure, music’s getting bigger and bigger. But that’s because Taylor Swifts of the world and the Ed Sheerans, whom we’ve just done a song with, are everywhere. If you work in a delicatessen or you work at a building site and you’ve got the radio on, chances are you can hear one of those two or Beyoncé or whatever, or Megan Thee Stallion within fucking five minutes of putting it on. And it’s kind of a mind control because you adjusted to that. You remember those songs ’cause that’s all you hear.”
And there, once again, we hear about the Ed Sheeran collab that we still haven’t seen yet. But yeah, it seems like Dani Filth isn’t a fan of Spotify.
