The Economics of Streaming: Demystifying Spotify

By Srishti Menon, Editor-in-Chief   When was the last time you streamed your favourite artist or podcast on Spotify? Did you frustratedly sigh into your phone, as you impatiently waited for those repetitive ads to ebb away? Maybe you should have signed up for the premium version, after all. Sounds familiar? Many of us have [...]

Is Happiness the same price as red bottoms?

An Analysis of Consumerism Gitika Arora, Junior Editor “Cristal, Maybach, Diamonds on your timepiece” go the lyrics of “Royals” by Lorde, an anti-materialistic anthem that sought to call out the hyper-consumerism propagated by the music Industry. But the irony is the single—a product created and sold by major labels propelled the singer to stardom and [...]