It’s hard to grasp the monumental business decision Hayley Williams faced before she’d even gotten her driver’s license. By the time she was 15, she had signed a 20-year contract with Atlantic Records—an agreement that would keep her tied up with the major label longer than she’d been alive. The “360 deal” made it so labels could profit from all parts of an artist’s work at a time when file sharing siphoned revenue from music sales. In exchange for developing Williams—conceptualized initially as a solo artist and eventually, at her insistence, as part of the pop-punk band Paramore—Atlantic would take a percentage from touring, merchandising, publishing, and more. On the opening track of her third solo album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, Williams frostily scorns the arrangement: “A lot of dumb motherfuckers that I made rich.”
曲目列表:
01 Ice In My OJ
02 Glum
03 Kill Me
04 Whim
05 Mirtazapine
06 Disappearing Man
07 Love Me Different
08 Brotherly Hate
09 Negative Self Talk
10 Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
11 Hard
12 Discovery Channel
13 True Believer
14 Zissou
15 Dream Girl In Shibuya
16 Blood Bros
17 I Won't Quit On You
18 Parachute