Garth Brooks is no fan of YouTube.
In an interview with Access Hollywood yesterday (Nov. 17), he called the video streaming service 'the devil.'
The conversation began on the subject of Taylor Swift and Jason Aldean, among others, choosing to remove their music from Spotify.
Brooks felt this was just the first wave. 'When music starts standing up for itself it's going to get a lot better,' he said during the on-air interview.
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'And guys, there are some big friends of ours in music we need to stand up to, too,' he said smiling, putting his hand on host Billy Bush's shoulder. 'If iTunes is going to tell you how to sell your stuff and it's only going to go this way, don't forget who's creating the music and who should be doing this stuff.'
Brooks chose not to sell his music via iTunes or other existing digital retailers; instead, he launched his own digital download service, GhostTunes, which he claims offers artists a better financial deal as well as options for packaging and selling music however they please.
Brooks may not have much affection for iTunes, but during the interview, he saves his strongest words for the world's biggest video streaming service.
'And I'm telling you, the devil... nice people? YouTube, oh my gosh' he says. 'They claim they pay people. They're not paying anything either and people are getting millions and millions and millions of views and they don't get squat.'
According to Access Hollywood, YouTube had 'no comment' regarding Brooks' statement or claims.
Brooks' official music videos are not currently available on YouTube-even amateur videos of his live shows are relatively scarce. And Brooks appears to want it that way, though he's frustrated that he can't completely wipe his music from the site.
'You can't get out of it,' he says of YouTube, as if he's genuinely surprised at this state of affairs. 'I had a sweet meeting with them [YouTube]. They were all fired up. They were the sweetest, and they're all like 12,' he continues, a comment that elicits laughs from the show's hosts. 'They're the sweetest kids. So young. And so I got the first question, 'How do you get out?' Silence. You don't. You don't get out.'
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For Brooks, the point is less his own personal paycheck for these 'millions and millions' of streams but fair compensation for the writers behind his (and other artists') hugely popular songs. 'Trust me, songwriters are hurting,' he says. 'So I applaud Ms. Taylor [for exiting Spotify], I applaud everyone for standing up for the songwriters, because without them music is nothing.'
Another artist who agrees with Brooks on this topic is Blake Shelton. In a recent interview with , Shelton said he, too, supports Swift's decision to leave Spotify.
'I know Spotify's in kind of an experimental phase, changing with the industry, and I can see why she did that,' Shelton said. 'I don't disagree with her and I know a lot of artists have followed suit. When you look at the numbers, it's easy to say 'That's Taylor Swift-why is she so worried about money?' But when you talk about other writers and songwriters on the album who aren't Taylor Swift, it hits them pretty hard. I don't disagree with her at all.'
As for Brooks, the bottom line, he feels, is that the situation with music streaming is 'totally backward right now.' But in his eyes, the battle is far from over. 'If the artists will just keep hammering away, unify, stick together, then music will become the king again, which is what it should be. Music should always be first.'
Garth Brooks' latest album is Man Against Machine, which he released last week. It's his first studio album since 2001′s Scarecrow. Man Against Machine is available now on GhostTunes.
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