American Slavery In The Arts Is The Artist's Last Straw

This is now an artist's catalogue - with anxious "fans" awaiting their arrival

“They take [the music], and they say, 'We're going to put it everywhere we want to put it, and we really don't care about what you want to do. Give us everything that you have and we're going to do what we want with it.' And that doesn’t work for us. . . . They just need to be a better partner.”

- Scott Borchetta, Taylor Swift's label head, on how Spotify puts the concept of American slavery to work in music