Talking to the publication for a sustainability-centered interview, Billie criticized how normalized it has change into for artists to promote a number of variants of the identical album.
At this level, it’s necessary to level out that Billie herself sells a number of vinyl variants of her albums, however all of them have the very same tracklist in order that followers aren’t compelled to purchase each model with the intention to hear all of her songs. She additionally makes use of 100% recycled vinyl and scraps for every variant.
“We dwell these days the place, for some motive, it is crucial to some artists to make all types of various vinyl and packaging… which ups the gross sales and ups the numbers and will get them extra money,” she defined within the interview.
“I am unable to even categorical how wasteful it’s. It’s proper in entrance of our faces, and persons are simply getting away with it left and proper,” Billie went on. “I discover it actually irritating as anyone who actually goes out of my option to be sustainable and do the perfect that I can and attempt to contain all people in my workforce in being sustainable — after which it is a number of the largest artists on this planet making fucking 40 completely different vinyl packages which have a distinct distinctive factor simply to get you to maintain shopping for extra.”
“It is so wasteful, and it is irritating to me that we’re nonetheless at a degree the place you care that a lot about your numbers and also you care that a lot about being profitable — and it is all of your favourite artists doing that shit,” she concluded.
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