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Raye Calls Out Manipulative and ‘Evil’ Music Industry Practices That Exploit Songwriters

Raye speaks with Rolling Stone backstage at Coachella 2024 to advocate for fair practices and payments for songwriters in the music industry.

Raye first began building her portfolio as a songwriter when she was around 15 years old and was placed in writing rooms to craft hooks, melodies, and verses for other artists. And there are some incredibly, stupidly, ridiculously talented people who can’t pay their rent who are writing the songs,” Raye told Rolling Stone backstage at Coachella this weekend. Even as Raye continues to bask in the spotlight that she’s fought throughout her career to emerge beneath, she’s passionately and relentlessly advocating for the songwriters who are currently where she once was — dealing with those same unsustainable systems that value-creating songs for radio play and prioritizing paying producers over paying the people who wrote those songs more than fractions of a dollar years after they crafted a hit.

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