Who owns the Song

So my day was normal and just there until I heard the latest gist on social media. Mind you a lot of things goes on there so it will take a lot of controversy and drama for a particular story to stand out. It's a whole different world on social media especially Twitter.

Oh! I'm so sorry I didn't ask, how has your day been? I hope it hasn't been too stressful mine was ok just had to sort out one or two things in school. I just want to say that you should keep pushing and not give up, you can definitely achieve whatever you set your mind to.

So back to the trending gist. The story contains three main characters and a subordinate character. One is an upcoming artist (from the trenches), the other is an established dancer turned music producer, another is a very popular musician who is from the street and the last one is a very popular man in the street or to put it plainly the trenches. I can't mention their names but you should be able to follow me.

So the upcoming artist, established artist and the dancer released a song together that turned out to be a hit all over the country (surprisingly because I don't see anything special in the song). Now the dancer took the credit as the owner of the song and the other two acts are the featuring artist. Also he took the lion share of the proceeds from the song as expected. You will expect it to end there but it didn't, there was more going on in the background.

Surprisingly or should I say unsurprising the upcoming artist had a problem with that arrangement. He had an issue with the fact that he wasn't the lead artist and he was even more angry that he was put as a supporting act. The dancer put himself as the lead act while the other two as featuring artist thus collecting the lion share from the proceeds of the song especially from online streaming platforms.

He was also annoyed with the fact that he was invited for a show and a very popular artist sprayed him money while the dancer picked it for him. When he was done and asked for the money he was given $600 out of $3000. He felt extremely cheated and was left disgruntled.

He made the mistake of complaining on social media which I would say wasn't a smart move. He made a video explaining how he was cheated from his own song and then issued threats towards the dancer. This really caused a lot of rancor on the internet especially on Twitter.

A lot of people had very different opinions on the matter. Some were of the opinion that he wasn't properly treated and that he was also cheated from the earnings of the song. They agreed with him that he was supposed to earn more and be the lead artist of the song and that the dancer should return all the money down to a single cent that he was denied of. They were like that's how up coming artist in the music industry are cheated.

The other divide were of the opinion that he was being very ungrateful. They were like he was coming from the trenches and that he should show at least an atom of respect and appreciation to the person that brought him to limelight. Some also said that that's how this new artist behave when they taste the spotlight, they do not remember the people that brought them up and they let the money enter their head. He should at least show some appreciation by giving him an amount from the money he earned.

The popular man that helped him wasn't having any of it and was very disappointed with him. He was deeply pissed off and sent him packing from his mansion back to the streets. He was like he couldn't be taking care of his mental health and career at the same time, it was too much for him to handle.

No matter how you look at it both sides are to blame. They had their roles in the mess that resulted and the situation could have been resolved behind the curtain. There was no need for them washing their dirty linen in the public thus disgracing themselves.

This just goes to show you the happenings in the music industry. I personally do not care about the issue and it is just amusing to me. Just like any other celebrity drama, with time it will die down and people will probably forget that it ever happened.

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Till next time or another social media drama which will probably be soon.