AChapell Roan has made Grammys this year, as she accepted the award for the best new artist, from calling to the posters and industry of the public “to apply for wages and health care, especially for developing artists” – and thus, it is heated. Long distinctive tensions in the music industry reach the welfare of artists and rewards.
Rawan said that after being dropped by Atlantic Records, a Warner company, in 2010, she had functional experience in the real world and “she cannot afford health insurance costs.” She added, “It was destroyed … feeling treason by the regime.” It is now signed on Island, a subsidiary of the Universal Music Group (UMG) group, and its letter appears specifically to the main posters, whose profits have increased in recent years even with the decrease in artists’ revenues.
The musicians, including Sabrina Carpenter, Charlie XCX, and Noah Kahan, have made a donation of $ 25,000 a donation to the mental charitable line of music, but her speech was also met Introduction from the back Written by Jeff Rapan, the former president of the Clav Devis Institute for Music registered in New York, described her misleading comments. His article was widely malicious, but it was a symptom of an industry that suffers from the possibility of the long work practices caused by artists.
Excessive work stories, poor mental health and unstable contracts are common among artists; A new concern has arose about pastoral care through the death of singer Liam Pine, whose mark was dropped by addiction conflicts. Jillian Banks- Also known as pop-music banks are successful in the main naming system with the first two albums in mid-2010, and says that, as a major brand, it is “not really seen as a sensitive person who creates art-you are now a producer, So they see everything through an attempt to make you make money for them. “
It describes the schedule imposed by the posters that she had to adhere to early in her career as “primarily inhuman-that was every day, interviews and buds throughout the day, fly here and there … if you say that you were not approved by them, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, , There, there, there, there was always a kind of reaction. ” In the end, she had to start canceling promotional opportunities due to fatigue.
Joe Defrancesco, co -founder of The United Musicians and Allied Corner (UMAW). “[Those artists] It often signing the contracts in which the artist works in this designation with a very full-time capacity-the poster is available in public relations, reservation agents, and all these parts of the musician life, so the artist works to a large extent for that mark, he says. “In such conditions in which he works full -time for the employer, the employer is supposed to give you benefits. But often what happens is that employers offend the classification of employees as independent or independent contractors, and not technical employees under a legal definition, [so they] Do not give them benefits. “
The musicians who signed UMG, Sony Music Entertainment (Sme) and Warner Music Group (WMG)-the main stickers “Big Three”-and their subsidiaries qualify for insurance through the SAG-Aftra Federation throughout the period signed with the poster. UMG and Sme also have partnerships with Music Health Alliance (MHA), a non -profit organization that provides musicians with advocacy and support for health care without any cost. (In some cases, this help may apply for Medicaid.)
Last week, UMG announced Another partnership with MHA is called the Mental Health Fund for the music industry for UMG artists and the broader industry. It is definitely necessary: the charitable mind in the UK says the charitable mind is that the musicians are fine Three times more likely For violation of non -music depression, due to the unsafe nature of their income, pressure from fans and signs, and reaching alcohol and drugs. (UMG and SME representatives refused to comment on the record; WMG representatives were not immediately available for comment.)
This coverage does not explain Rawan’s call to support the wider artist, including for those who may be linked to development deals that ultimately lead to an end to the contract. “There [have] That the systems are in place to take care of the artists who lead our works, “but” we have moved away from it over the years. “
He says: “They are profits to people-when you put profitable entities responsible for products that are the result of human suffering, trial, joy and spirit, you will get a chapter.” Airaudi says that placing responsibility on stickers to provide this type of support shifts focus away from a problem at the level of industry, in which the tables of the confined tours can become “incredible taxes”, which leads to mental health problems; And where the managers do not always study the financial literacy of their artist.
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Globally, there are batches that are made for more fair compensation. After the Roan’s Grammys, the Song Writing Collection in the United Kingdom Evors Academy Plans to press for a better transaction for song book have been announced, including the daily expenditures funded by the signs, the minimum of the main discounts of the main recordings to the authors of the songs, and more. Early last year, Rashida Tleb and Jamal Bowman submitted a bill to the US Congress called The work of living for musiciansWhich requires broadcasting services to enter subscription fees that will go directly to the artists and put a percentage of revenues other than discovering in a new royal rights fund that would pay directly to the musicians. (UMAW worked on the bill with TLAIB and Bowman.)
Earlier this week, the Executive Director of Tri Carter – Early Director of Lady Gaga – on Instagram pledged that his brand, Venice, writes health care salaries in its contracts, although it is unclear whether the gun has any A mark or works outside distribution services.
DEFRANCESCO and Airaudi says that there will always be musicians who are subject to cracks in any batches at the industry level for health care, and that these initiatives are eventually stopping for a country without a national health service that is funded by a central. “The vast majority of UMAW members are not in the main stickers,” says DefranceSco. “We need musicians, like all workers, to demand a better health care than their employers, but they are also organized politically to defend Medicaid, which we have at the present time and expand them to the single motivation system.”
Meanwhile, banks say, the main stickers are not ready to budge on their treatment of musicians. “The way the culture is prepared, it is a kind of quantity on quality, where everything can revolve around money and the main brand can sign an artist for one song, and if it does not succeed, let’s move on to the following,” she says. “If they want to develop artists actually, they will have to invest in health care.”