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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/music-dis-ownership-streaming-economy/"></div><p>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/thomas-klepacz/">Thomas Klepacz</a></p>
<p>On January 9th, Spotify found itself in the public eye of an atypical arena. The Swedish music streaming company — whose public persona typically consists of lime-green odes to <a href="https://twitter.com/Spotify/status/818487586553524225">U2</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Spotify/status/817490952486948864">Rascal Flatts</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/Spotify/status/811677651479842816">gingerbread emulations of prominent rappers</a> — engaged in greater Twitter-political-discourse by proposing a tongue-in-cheek offer to Barack Obama. As Daniel Ek, the founder and CEO of the company <a href="https://twitter.com/eldsjal/status/818501713665650688">tweeted</a>, “Hey @BarackObama, I heard you were interested in a role at Spotify. Have you seen this one?” <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/music-dis-ownership-streaming-economy/#more-3254" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Music Disownership in the Streaming Economy

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<p>On the Wednesday, November 30th episode of VICELAND’s new daily program <em>Desus &amp; Mero</em>, the show’s two hosts — Daniel Baker and Joel Martinez (or as Twitter and the world knows them, “Desus Nice” and “The Kid Mero”) — discuss the Charlotte Police Department’s withholding of charges against the officer who shot and killed Keith Scott, a 43-year-old man of color with a history of TBI (traumatic brain injury). As follows: <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/vicelands-desus-mero-late-night-television-laugh-plenty-thought/#more-2837" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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VICELAND&#8217;s Desus &#038; Mero: Late-Night Television With a Laugh (And Plenty of Thought)

Thomas Klepacz is a recently-graduated writer from Connecticut. He likes to listen to things and write about them. His work has appeared in <em>Noisey</em> and <em>Not Mad</em>. He's still trying to figure out how the world works, but writing helps.