stackyFACTSIn the music industry, simply being in the room when a song is recorded is apparently grounds to demand a paycheck.
In the music industry, simply being in the room when a song is recorded is apparently grounds to demand a paycheck. It's an open secret that major artists will demand a percentage of the songwriting royalties just for slightly tweaking a lyric or simply gracing the track with their presence. It's essentially corporate extortion, masked under the shiny veneer of 'collaboration,' ensuring the actual writers stay pleasantly poor.
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