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    'If we don't get paid, songs don't get made': Songwriters take to the streets against Spotify

    by August Brown, Los Angeles Times Mar 01, 2022 4 minutes
    Micah Powell breaks into a rap about Spotify's need to pay artists more during a protest outside the streaming service's offices on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood on Feb. 28, 2022.

    Songwriter Kennedi Lykken, 24, has penned tracks for Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande and Britney Spears and won a Grammy Award. But she's worried she may need a second, more stable job as well.

    "I have songwriter friends who sell pics of their feet on OnlyFans," she said, with a grim laugh, outside of SoHo House West Hollywood. She was one of about 100 professional musicians who'd gathered on Monday afternoon to protest the payouts and priorities of audio streaming giant Spotify.

    On one of the ritziest blocks in SoCal — the former home to Spotify's offices — Lykken wondered how long her artistic

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