Lily Allen is often an honest and outspoken individual, and Tidal is a star-powered streaming service that, regardless of how many people end up actually paying for it, people are talking about. So it only makes sense that Lily Allen is talking about Tidal, and her feelings towards the service aren't extremely fond:
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
maybe I'm missing something, and really its amazing and will change everything for the better, but, yeah i must be missing something
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
Allen then went on to question whether people would actually notice the high-fidelity difference in sound (valid point!) and called for real change in the industry:
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
A REAL REVOLUTION YEAH...........GUYS............GUYS.............USHER?..........MADGE....... DAFT PUNKS ?? GUYS ???????? *WAVES AT YACHT*
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
The next day, Allen dropped some science about the admittedly ridiculous reality that the artists that co-own Tidal probably stand a better chance from profiting off the service than the majority of musicians whose interests are supposedly being protected by the service itself:
Wow,so if you're a Co owning artist you see a cut of the 25% profit, and let's face it, probably a larger chunk of the 75% than most artists
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
Let's face it Jigga dropped 60 mill on a website, he probably has good long term intentions, he is a business man though,
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
He managed to find some people self important and delusional enough to spiel that 'for the artist' crap while clawing bk some capital. 🙌
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
All in all, there's a lot of attendant conversation that took place on Allen's feed in the last few days, all of which is worth checking out over at Oh No They Didn't if you have some time on your hands and have thought for at least five seconds about whether all this Tidal stuff actually makes any sense—and Allen even ended her part of the convo by suggesting another outlet for directly supporting art:
I LOVE THIS IDEA, Pay for Art with Art, http://t.co/KSiMppBZiH
— lily (@lilyallen) April 3, 2015
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