Music publishing, a part of the industry that rarely raises its hand to be its hottest or most controversial subject, has recently been an uncharacteristic source of news headlines again and again,…
naturally has a few thoughts about this crest of cashing in. And they’re mixed, even if he’s not about to wax gloomy about writers getting their due.
Platt paused, then affirmed that she was right about the higher possible superlative she’d raised. “So, I amhighest-ranking Black executive,” he said, to applause. “Not just in the music industry, but in the entertainment industry. … You know, I’m a Black man ‚ I’ve had experiences. Jody Gerson [his one-time boss, who holds a similar role at Universal Music Publishing] is a woman; she’s had experiences. And we’d be foolish to turn a blind eye to those experiences.
“From a leadership level, you’ve got to start tying that to compensation. People are way too smart now to just listen to us speak. They’re too smart to hearspeak about it. They want to see what we’re going to do. I often say, people see better than they hear. And they want to start seeing action.”, which has organized protests against what it considers minuscule streaming royalties.
Platt affirmed that Saban was correct in saying Sony Publishing was teaming with 100 Percenters to give grants to songwriters, but added, “Even that is something that we had done already before… We had done things for the NSAI and other groups as well. I could go down the list of a lot of things that we’ve done, financially… Even the other songwriter groups that we partner with, we didn’t put out the press release. They did.
“Finally, he said, ‘Let me tell you what’s happened. I researched you. You’re very successful, you’re on this amazing career path. … but you’re still doing the same thing. You’re a senior VP, but I will bet you don’t do anything different in your role today than you did the day you started at the company…. You have success, you’ve made money for the company, and because of that, they have to pay you more. And to pay you more, they keep giving you these titles. But you’re still in the same place.
“People say, ‘I want to do A&R, I want do this, I want to do whatever.’ I’m like, do it. Just do it! You don’t necessarily have to have the role to do the role. Do it. But some people are like, ‘I have to be known as that to do it.’ That’s not really how it works in real life.”
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