Should Marilyn Manson and R. Kelly’s music be banned? More importantly — who should do it?
, with Universal confessing that its prior words did not do sufficient “justice to this important topic.” UMG added: “Due to the seriousness of the allegations [against Samra], we have decided to suspend our cooperation with the artist in question until the allegations have been clarified.” That suspension doesn’t appear to have affected Samra’s catalog, which continues to be distributed by Universal Germany’s Urban subsidiary.
That in itself doesn’t amount to an actual content takedown by Universal — but it foreshadows another piece of action taken by the company that is particularly relevant here. On June 19th, just two days after Universal Germany’s initial “condemning all forms of violence” notice, the firm’s Urban subsidiaryWhy would a major record company censor its own artist? Because the offending track contained the lyric: “I fuck her till she’s almost dead; she is in a vegetative state.
This time, the outcry was caused by a track’s content, rather than an artist’s conduct. But it was also clear that — having just made its Samra-related proclamations RE: “all forms of violence” — Universal found itself with little other choice than to rip down its own client’s work from SpotifyIf a label or distributor isn’t going to step up, will the streaming giants? Not likely.
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