/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>49065146
>This shit wouldn't fly in the entertainment industry anywh-
*** BLOCKS YOUR PATH ***
>WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!?!
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36107590

Funnily enough, here are some nice parallels
>But after inking a new deal in the early 1990s, Prince chafed under the company's rigid production schedule.
>A prolific songwriter, he wanted to release material as soon as it was ready - he had 500 unreleased songs in his famous studio vault.
>But Warner Bros refused, believing it would saturate the market and dilute demand for the artist's music.

>"He felt the contracts at the time were onerous and burdensome," says John Kellogg, assistant chair of the music business management department at Berklee College of Music.
>"He rebelled against that."

Then
>Prince compared his contractual obligations to slavery, and began performing with the word "SLAVE" on his cheek.
>He saw his own name as a part of his contractual entrapment.

And here is the punchline
>"Warner Bros took the name, trademarked it, and used it as the main marketing took to promote all of the music I wrote," Prince once said in a press release.
>"The company owns the name Prince and all related music marketed under Prince. I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros."

Prince was his generation's kson!