2023-07-05 15:25:00
British independent artist Tim Arnold is facing an at least unexpected problem with the release of his new album, “Super Connected”no Apple Music — all because of a specific track.
The song in question, “A Commercial Break”, is nothing more than a type of interlude that takes place, in fact, like a television commercial. With narration by British actor Stephen Frythe track makes references to the so-called “iHead”a fictional headset that metaphorically resembles the Apple Vision Pro. Such a gadget also has, not ironically, devices that resemble iPhones positioned around it.
Em an open letter to appleArnold said he was told he mightn’t submit the album in its entirety, as it has tracks with “ring tones, audio snippets and radio ads”, which are “prohibited by digital music platforms”.
He argued that the track is not, in fact, an advertisement, but a parody “thematically related to the rest of the album”. However, he was not successful in reversing the situation. The solution? Deleting the satirical track from the album—thus compromising its artistic vision, which explores the impact of great technology on humanity.
The strangest part of all this, however, is that the creation of the “iHead” concept happened before the presentation of the Apple Vision Pro itself, with another track by the artist, called “Start With The Sound”.
the offensive track “A Commercial Break” satirizes a technology corporation developing a wearable mind-control device called the “iHead”. To my surprise, just three weeks following my album was released, Apple announced the Vision Pro, which bears some resemblance to the iHead (as seen in the short film for the album’s first single, “Start With The Sound”).
But perhaps the paradox of this parody uncovered an Apple policy that Apple customers and artists are unaware of? Whatever it is, this whole debacle signals a potentially corrosive turn in the freedom of independent artists to express their art on digital platforms.
While other platforms accepted the album without any problems (including Spotify), Arnold recalled that Apple accepted exactly the same types of parody from other artists — like, for example, the album “The Who Sell Out” from The Who, from the 1960s. Thus, according to the British artist, it is hard to believe that this is not regarding censorship of satire.
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