THE BOBBIE
A Manifesto = for the Artists Still Standing
This is my opinion, my lived read of the industry, and my refusal to pretend otherwise: The modern music economy is built to extract, not to sustain. Platforms like Spotify have normalized a world where artists generate culture, identity, and billions in value; while receiving fractions of a penny, opaque math, and silence when they ask where the money went. Scale is rewarded. Humanity is not. Executive compensation balloons. Artists are told exposure is payment. This isn’t innovation, it’s dilution dressed up as access.
I believe this system corrodes creativity. It trains artists to compete for crumbs, to give away ownership early, to confuse visibility with viability, and to internalize burnout as the cost of being heard. It strips music of care. It treats intellectual property like a raw material to be mined, not a life’s work to be protected. And when artists push back, they’re labeled ungrateful, difficult, unrealistic. That’s not a market—that’s a power structure.
We don’t fix this with better vibes or louder playlists. We fix it by building new infrastructure. By protecting artists early. By making contracts legible. By paying fairly. By treating mental health as part of creative labor. By creating learning pathways that don’t require exploitation as tuition. By designing platforms where access, safety, education, and sustainability are the baseline, not the upgrade.
That’s why The Bobbie Music platform exists in my imagination and in my work: not as a tech flex, but as a refusal. A social enterprise rooted in dignity. An ecosystem where music, money, and meaning are not enemies. Where artists don’t have to bleed to belong.
Until that system is real everywhere = we made you a mix. Call it hypocritical, call it irony… let’s put our money where our mouth is. ~ a
REMIX THE SYSTEM
Until We Burn It Down (METAPHORICALLY) = A PLAYLIST
This is not “female empowerment” wallpaper.
This is women with teeth.
These are voices that refused to be edited, softened, or made palatable; across eras, genres, and moods: punk and tears, hip-hop and heartbreak, soul and sacrifice, riot and romance. Some of these songs raised me. Some saved me. Some are by women I admire like myths, because they changed the sound of the world and didn’t ask permission.
You’ll hear originals and covers, because sometimes taking a song back is the point. Rage that’s clean. Rage that’s messy. Genius that was celebrated, and genius that was ignored until it couldn’t be.
This is a reminder: women have always been the architects of culture, resistance, tenderness, and truth.
Share this mix with your friends, your sisters, your mothers, your grandmothers, your aunts, your nieces, and your daughters. Remind them who they are, where they came from, and what they can do for our future.
Press play.
Get wrecked.
Get rebuilt.
REMIX THE SYSTEM
LET’S PUT OUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS. PROTECT WOMEN.
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