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Looking at the title of your playlist I half-thought it might be a Michael Jackson compilation! But no. Thank you for including the divine BB. Have you ever been to Paris?

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Not yet, alas.

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Really? Still promoting Shitify after all these years of shitfuckery? https://substack.com/@tedgioia/p-153380958

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I still use the platform. I still listen to music outside and away from Spotify. I still read Ted Gioia too. Yes, we can be more than one thing, if you’d like to reduce me down to being a shill for Spotify because of a playlist now and then I can’t really change your perception. But people are always more than one thing.

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Why not just switch to Tidal or even Apple?

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I don’t do it for the same reason I don’t make suggestions about what you do. Is Spotify rotten? Sure. But so are all of the major record companies that rip off their artists and took a deal with Spotify to save themselves. They were rotten before that too. And to think that Apple is pure seems odd. Thanks though. We can call this all ‘engagement’ I guess.

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I said “or even Apple” implying they are less bad 🤦‍♂️

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No I did get that - by all means cancel out from me cos I use Spotify.

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Q: Is Tidal any better?

Tidal is way better - they aren’t actively screwing artists by replacing them with automation or avoiding paying them for less than 1000 streams. They pay 4 times as much per stream and have a User Centric proportional royalty share system. They’re owned by musicians & Jack Dorsey who sponsors Signal $1m per year. They’re clearly half decent humans instead of utter scum.

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Thanks Simon and merry Xmas. And thanks for the work you do here. Can’t afford to add you to my subscription payments but love your work.

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Hey, appreciate that, just gave you a 6 month paid subscription for free as a thanks for you interest. No obligation after, but that’ll give you any of the bits you’re currently missing. Merry Christmas.

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You lovely man. Merry kirihimete!

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