>>116040226you know what a license is right
>>116040267that was just one song as well, but it was a globally-popular song from an artist who was so in-demand before she was signed in the US that there was a bidding war to sign her on the basis of that one song, and it never really went away between 1992 and 2006; on the one hand that's what makes it so useful as music for a soundtrack - it's recognizable and well-liked - on the other hand that's what makes it so expensive to get clearance for
for a show run on a shoestring like VB - I think back in 2006 I even knew some of the art staff online in a vague kind of way, and they sure as shit weren't raking in cash from their work - it's almost incredible that they were able to license music at all
>>116041768this can also be a problem, you end up with clearance for tv but not for home media, or with a clearance that lasts for a decade or whatever and then someone has to make another payment or... whatever the contract says
it's dumb but it does actually protect musical artists as well: if you think about Elizabeth Mitchell's "little bird" on that one episode of Futurama, it's a great song and a great sequence to which it's very much suited - and I'm not saying it cost the earth to clear or made the same as Everybody's Free, but getting that kind of money for essentially doing nothing does help smaller artists pay the bills and keep making music, but the tendency is to leave it to the record company to work out (except these days the record company is often just the artist and maybe some friends and a day-play lawyer), so it's one of those problems with no good answer to it: either you pay artists to piss about and maybe have a follow-up hit or you don't get art to pay for later on
>>116042606Los Ageless was a fucking revelation
