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Logic’s Song ‘1-800-273-8255’ Helped Lower Suicide Rates, Study Says
Photo Credit: MTV VMAs / CC by 3.0 Logic created a song about what it’s like to want to commit suicide. He named it after the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL). Research suggests he may have helped save hundreds of lives due to awareness. In a 2017 interview with Genius, Logic says he never set out to create music to save lives. Speaking with fans during his 2017 album tour, he realized many of them related to what he was rapping about. “They’ve said things like, ‘your music has saved my life.’ And I was always like, ‘Aw so nice of you, thanks.’” “They’re really serious. They tat shit on…
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Why Songwriter Royalty Rates Won’t Be Changing Much
Photo Credit rating: Toa Heftiba The pursuits of songwriters and their publishers aren’t aligned. So why is the most vocal songwriter advocate doing the job for the new music publishers? The price hearings for “streaming mechanicals” are in development suitable now. As normally, the proposals proffered by the streaming services and the National Audio Publishers’ Affiliation (NMPA), on behalf of publishers, are incomprehensible to any person other than the lawyers and economists who are paid out to get ready the prolonged filings that contain “expert” views about justifiable new rates. Acquiring equitable streaming costs for recordings and songs is not a complex mathematical conundrum. It does not call for convoluted…
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