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Tramp stamps4/16/2023 ![]() “It seems to me like, why are we scrutinizing and questioning so aggressively these artists who are largely people of color, whereas white artists for decades have largely done the same thing and just been given a pass, and nobody blinks an eye at it?” ![]() “I guess I see it mostly in hip-hop, and new R&B, and rap and stuff like that,” Ian said. Ian also points out that the term “industry plant” is applied most frequently in genres predominately comprised of Black artists, suggesting that racial bias may influence the distribution of industry plant accusations. “For the entire history of recorded music, people with money have been looking at somebody and saying ‘Hey, this person is very attractive, and I could put them on the face of this record and sell a million copies, and it doesn’t matter what it sounds like.’” “It’s certainly not a new phenomenon or anything like that,” Ian said. Magic Ian, musician and owner of independent label Maximum Pelt Records, notes that industry plants have been a staple of the music industry as long as the music industry has existed. While the term “industry plant” only came into existence during the 2010s, the phenomenon it describes has been around for much longer. new bb ‘I’d Rather Die’ drops April 14th !! pre-save/add now and get ready to make men cry… link in our bio !! #guitartok #punksongs ♬ original sound – TRAMP STAMPS “If you were to define it by somebody whose career is shaped and their image is shaped by their label, then you’d have to define 90 percent of the major label music industry as industry plants,” Johnson said. However, Johnson suggests that this definition is far too broad. ![]() Oftentimes, the term is placed on any musician whose public image is formulated in some way by their label. While it’s pretty much impossible to confirm whether an artist is an industry plant, that doesn’t stop people with access to Google from trying. “My personal view on it would be an artist with all the backing of who’s presented as if they’re some sort of independent artist who got there on their own effort.”įor the past decade, a litany of musicians have received online accusations of being industry plants, from Billie Eilish to Clairo to Chance the Rapper. “The definition gets looser and looser every year,” said Michael Johnson, studio musician, MBET program director at University of the Arts and co-founder of music label Boiled Records. ![]() Their image was quickly stained, and the Internet collectively dismissed the group as industry plants. Within a matter of days, however, the band was flooded with accusations of inauthenticity and claims that they were capitalizing on a trendy aesthetic in the hopes of financial success. On April 9, a Nashville-based pop-punk girl group by the name of Tramp Stamps released their third and latest single, “I’d Rather Die.”Ĭontaining lyrics such as “I can’t recall a memory/Of someone driving me home and not asking for a b***job/I’d rather die/Than hook up with another straight white guy,” the song epitomizes the band’s image: a “girls rule, boys drool” trio of self-made, independent rag-tag women unafraid to call it like they see it. Who knew people could lie on the Internet? A still from Tramp Stamps’ music video “1-800-miss-ur-guts.” ![]()
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