Write a song about an independent musician who receives their first streaming report and realizes they have no way to verify if the numbers are accurate. The song should explore the power imbalance between this artist and the major platforms that control their data, reflecting on a specific moment when they were shopping their album around and discovered how much more information labels had access to compared to individual artists. Include their frustration at having to blindly trust these faceless corporations while trying to build a career.
Include these quotes:
"Yeah it's definitely a power dynamic thing"
"Spotify and the others basically just send reports and everyone has to take their word for it."
"I remember when I was shopping around my first album"
"They could see exactly which playlists were driving streams and even geographic breakdowns"
"makes me wonder though - how do labels even verify streaming numbers?"
"Actually I don't think that's entirely true"
Rodeyo
