Jan 16, 2018
This sense of independence that young people and young artists took back from the music industry at the turn of the millennium has become a business model. It’s no longer a reaction to overpriced CDs or technology giving them access to music; it’s now becoming a model out of which to build careers. These artists are leading their conversations, they are reaching audiences directly, and they are working out what they want to say. And that is an incredibly positive thing—it just creates more of the good stuff. Out of the challenges we’ve tried to work our way through, we’re starting to see a new industry, and the business model is finally beginning to adapt.
Zane Lowe