Lily Allen slams Jay Z’s music service, Tidal, in Twitter rant
While there has been much buzz surrounding Jay Z’s music streaming service, Tidal, Lily Allen seems less than impressed.
The popstar shared her concerns, hypothesizing that instead of switching to the service, which costs either $10 or $20 monthly, music listeners will revert to downloading music illegally.
i LOVE Jay z so much, but TIDAL is soon expensive compared to other perfectly good streaming services, he's taken the biggest Artists
— lily (@lilyallen) March 30, 2015
made them exclusive to TIDAL (am i right in thinking this ?), people are going to swarm back to Pirate sites in droves
— lily (@lilyallen) March 30, 2015
sending traffic to torrent sites. up and coming (not yet millionaires) artists are going to suffer as a result.
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
maybe I'm missing something, and really its amazing and will change everything for the better, but, yeah i must be missing something
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
Allen ended the rant by backtracking a bit, saying that “perhaps she had spoken too soon.”
i think i may have spoken too soon, and that there is a lot to celebrate where TIDAL is concerned, i won't delete my posts because
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
my concerns are genuine, i am quite happy to admit i am wrong when i am. its late and I'm going to sleep, more tomorrow. BRB
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
also, unless TIDAL start sending everyone good quality headphones, the resolution thing is kinda redundant.
— lily (@lilyallen) March 31, 2015
Many big-name artists have already signed up with the service, including Madonna, Usher, Kanye West, and Daft Punk.