Psalm against streaming platforms and social networks: “Art must be thrown away” – Videos

“Music is already almost completely free, because you have to know that the streaming platforms pay us a lot, they give us nothing, very little. Well, but I can't even post on the Internet to announce the songs I created for more than 29 seconds. We don't know why, if you post it for 30 seconds they'll already throw the song at you, but I created it. Not even if they put you on the “white list”, maybe in that case you could, but never for more than 29 seconds.” The lyrics are from rapper Salmo, who lets off steam in a video on Instagram after having shared his new song which ended badly I do not recognize myselfsigned by Mace with him and young Centomilacarie.

Salmo harshly deplores the unequal relationship that exists today between music and social networks. And he is certainly not the first to publicly demonstrate against the treatment reserved for streaming platforms which, even if they make a living from music, have not yet found a way to adequately remunerate the artists who produce this music, in particular newcomers, who are unable to earn their living. out of it.

Not only. Salmo also challenges the moral discretion of the algorithm, which decides what is legal and what is not: “You have to be careful about what you say in songs, what photos you post, what videos you you do, otherwise they will block it. “Art then, guys, we have to throw it away, there is no more freedom of expression,” he continues in the video which ends with profanity. Just yesterday, a similar issue involved the former singer-songwriter X factor Enrico Nigiotti, who saw his official video censored Lullaby, a song dedicated to his children. The algorithm would have intercepted the image of a penis. Except that the penis in question was that of Nigiotti himself, when he was a newborn taking his first bath. In a post, the Tuscan singer-songwriter announced that the video would be republished censoring these five seconds and, like a good Tuscan, he made explanatory comments on Instagram's policy: “Apart from artificial intelligence , you have eyes like seagulls.”

This is the legitimate problem Salmo poses, supported in comments by many other renowned artists, from Morgan to Inoki, from Ensi to Space One: can art be subject to censorship? What happens when the art economy depends in one way or another on platforms? What are the consequences that affect the artistic product that will be offered to the public? The debate is open.

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