Wheatus frontman Brendan B. Brown doesn’t suppose TikTok makes “issues higher” for the music trade.
Wheatus do not suppose TikTok is nice for music
The Teenage Dirtbag hitmaker can see the positives within the platform, in that it presents new artists publicity to a fanbase they’d in any other case discover exhausting to succeed in, however in the end believes the fixed seek for new content material may show to be damaging as a result of it isn’t genuine.
Requested if he thinks TikTok is nice for music, he informed ContactMusic.com: “I feel it may be within the sense that it makes issues simple to seek out, and within the sense that it introduces new artists.
“These are actually constructive issues, however the concept that a brand new artist would want to compete, with themselves and with others for brand spanking new content material daily, I feel that is dangerous for music.
“I do not suppose that that is going to make issues higher.”
Brendan believes “good songs” stem from a spot of authenticity reasonably than cynically analysing statistics and developments.
He added: “I feel good songs come from meditation and contemplation and a protracted stroll within the woods, and so they do not come from having to fret about what your supervisor thinks of your most up-to-date content material.”
The 52-year-old singer teamed up with Ed Sheeran over the summer season to carry out Teenage Dirtbag with the Form of You hitmaker’s highschool band onstage in Hamburg, Germany, and Brendan hopes to take their new friendship additional.
He stated: “He was fairly a gentleman. Invited me to be part of his immense spaceship present, and I used to be completely happy to leap up there. Fairly honoured to be included. And his crew and his individuals are all actually beautiful, hard-working.”
Requested in the event that they plan to hit the studio collectively, he replied: “I feel we definitely will. Yeah, I might like to. I talked to him about it yesterday, in reality.”
