What Next: TBD | The Trouble With TikTok Songs

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🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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How the music streaming business opened the door to billions of dollars in fraud. Guest: Ashley Carman, Bloomberg News reporter covering the podcasting, music, and audio beat. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Were Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:34.1	I started my interview with Ashley Carmen by asking her to listen to a song, or rather a clip of a song.
0:44.6	So do you know what that was?
0:53.3	Yes, I am very well aware. Can you tell me what that was? Yes, I am very well aware.
0:56.5	Can you tell me what it was?
0:59.0	Yes.
0:59.7	So it's a song called Hey Kids by an artist named Molina.
1:04.6	She's a Danish Chilean singer.
1:07.7	And Ashley knows the song because it was a key part of a story she just wrote. Ashley covers
1:13.1	all things audio for Bloomberg News. I asked her to humor me and listen to another clip.
1:23.0	What's this one?
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