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by fullshark 603 days ago
I'm guessing she owns her feet photos, but she doesn't own her songs' publishing rights. There's really no reason to sign with the recording industry at all these days.
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The argument would be that the marketing done by the label(s) she has signed with is a big part of why she has 7.5M monthly Spotify listeners (and the related fame is why so many people will pay to see her feet).

Not sure if that's a good argument, maybe she would've grown just as popular w/o help from a label, but that's why artists sign.

My exact thought. 50-90% of an artist's revenue goes to record labels. They then run PR campaigns blaming services like Spotify for the problem.