Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "The Story of 'It Wasn’t Me' by Shaggy" video.

  1. I remember the first time I heard this song, it was on the radio actually I was like maybe 11 or 12 years old. On our way from church IIRC. And immediately I was like "Is he talking about what I think he's talking about?" the chorus and pre-chorus I mean, I had no idea what Shaggy was saying and for the most part I still don't.
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  2. That might have been the first time the industry was like "Oh, wait this may not be SUCH a terrible thing after all..." but honestly for the most part record labels hated file sharing whereas artists quickly realized that it and the Internet were about to hand power back to the artists. Nowadays you don't even have to sign to a major record label deal, you can create yourself from the ground up and then make a living touring your music and selling your merch (especially). It's actually worth releasing the music for free nowadays.
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  3.  @Secretservice709  Not many people buy CDs anymore. I can't even remember the last time I bought a CD, or even burned a CD. I do pay for a few streaming services though for when I go to the gym. Or in the car, etc. The best way to support an artist financially is go see them live and if you really wanna help them out buy some merch while you're there. They get a bigger cut from that than they're getting from a contemporary major record label deal. Most deals for most artists are ridiculously unfair, they first off don't see ANY money from it until the record label "recoups" their investment into you as a business prospect to begin with. Let's say it's a $1 million investment. With that you finance your videos, you buy the stuff you need to give off the image you're going for, etc. And for each record they credit you with like ten cents or something like that. Once your record does cross that threshold and they recouped their money, only then do you start seeing royalties and usually the rate stays the same, so only $0.10 cents per record. The internet has given more power to the artists.
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