Do you have any intention of putting your music on Spotify?
NOPE. TRUST ME, IF I COULD WAKE UP TOMORROW AND MAGICALLY HAVE MY STUFF ON SPOTIFY WITHOUT GETTING IMMEDIATELY OBLITERATED BY THE COMBINED FORCE OF COPYRIGHT LAW, RECORD LABELS, AND WHATEVER ELDRITCH ENTITY CONTROLS AUTOMATED CONTENT CLAIMS, I WOULD. THE PROBLEM IS THAT MOST OF WHAT I MAKE IS PARODY AND TRANSFORMATIVE FANWORK, WHICH IS JUST A FANCY-ASS WAY OF SAYING “A LAWYER COULD TURN MY ENTIRE MUSIC CATALOG INTO A FINE MIST IF THEY WERE HAVING A BAD DAY”.
SO FOR NOW, I’M STICKING TO PLATFORMS THAT AREN’T SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO ASK “DO YOU OWN THE RIGHTS TO THIS?” BEFORE LETTING YOU EXERCISE YOUR GOGDAMN CREATIVITY. IT FUCKING SUCKS, BECAUSE I’D LOVE TO HAVE A STUPID LITTLE SPOTIFY ARTIST PAGE WITH STUPID LITTLE ALBUM COVERS AND STUPID LITTLE MONTHLY LISTENER NUMBERS TO OBSESS OVER, BUT UNFORTUNATELY I CHOSE THE NOBLE ARTISTIC PATH OF MAKING HOMESTUCK PARODY MUSIC ON THE INTERNET. A DECISION I REGRET EXACTLY 0% OF THE TIME AND 100% OF THE TIME SIMULTANEOUSLY.
YOU CAN FIND ME ON SOUNDCLOUD, BANDCAMP AND YOUTUBE, THOUGH. THE ONLY PLATFORMS THAT LOOK AT MY PARODIES AND GO “YOU’RE ON THIN FUCKING ICE BUT WE’LL ALLOW IT AS LONG AS YOU DON’T MONETIZE THIS SHIT”.
