Grimes has shared support for Kim Petras, following the latter hitting out at her record label and asking them to drop her.
Petras took to X this week to share her frustrations towards Republic Records, claiming that they are “refusing” to release her new album and saying that she is “tired of having no control over my own life or career”.
The German pop star also added that music she has self-funded has also been shelved, and accused the label of refusing to “pay my collaborators for the work they’ve done”. She then said that she has “formally requested to be dropped by” Republic because she wants to “self-fund and self-curate my own music”.
Now, Grimes has shared backing for Petras and posted a series of updates on X, explaining how she thinks the music industry takes advantage of artists.
Responding to a headline about Petras’ comments, Grimes shared: “Every artist I’ve ever met was, in some point, in a terrible label situation. The labels economic model is based on hits [and] no amount of advice seems to be able to convince enough artists to stop signing to labels.”
She then went on to suggest that the power being in the hands of huge labels “reduces the potential and rewards algorithmically safe music”.
Like every artist I've ever met was in some point in a terrible label situation. The labels economic model is based on hits. U sign to a label because of the promise that if a song is going they can throw gasoline on it. No amount of advice seems to be able to convince enough… https://t.co/eDqL2YzbqI
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