Neil Young Blasts Digital Age

Neil Young has sounded off against the state of the music and arts industries in a digital world. In a post to his official website, the rock legend says that a digital world is incapable of supporting artists with integrity and the world is suffering for it. He shared the thoughts about his 1996 release Broken Arrow.More »

By on February 28, 2018

Neil Young has sounded off against the state of the music and arts industries in a digital world. In a post to his official website, the rock legend says that a digital world is incapable of supporting artists with integrity and the world is suffering for it. He shared the thoughts about his 1996 release Broken Arrow, writing: “Young artists today — great authors, songwriters and musicians at the beginning of their creative output — are challenged to make ends meet in the digital world, a world where the artist is paid last, if at all, by the Tech Giants,” he wrote. “Broken Arrow is soulful. Real. Not trying to be anything it wasn’t. I was beginning to see that hits were overrated and that hit-makers were falling like flies.” He adds: “Today, in the age of FaceBook, Google, and Amazon, it’s hard to tell how a new and growing musical artist could make it in the way we did,” he said. “The Tech Giants have figured out a way to use all the great music of everyone from all time, without reporting an artist’s number of plays or paying a fucking cent to the musicians. Aren’t they great companies! It makes you wonder where the next generation of artists will come from. How will they survive?” Copyright(c) 2018 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «