and they have been excited to watch their does come up others accuse them of being industry plans and don t like that it is preplanned on tiktok, feeling a bit too orchestrated. find preplanned on tiktok, feeling a bit too orchestrated. bit too orchestrated. and it seems to bit too orchestrated. and it seems to be bit too orchestrated. and it seems to be coming - bit too orchestrated. and it seems to be coming morel bit too orchestrated. and it | seems to be coming more of bit too orchestrated. and it - seems to be coming more of an essential tool for the music industry because it has such huge penetration, doesn t it? absolutely. tiktok dominates the charts these days. if it is popular on tiktok is popular on spotify and the way that tiktok has reshaped the music industry has reshaped the music industry has reshaped the industry and ec stars like lil nas x and doja cat and it really is the place of online talent. i5 doja cat and it really is the place of online talent. is the de
but it really does flip the dynamic a little bit. you used to get signed to a record label to get fans, but now you can produce music in your bedroom, you can rack up millions of followers on tiktok and create users and make music directly for them. it definitely balances out the power a little bit between the artists and labels. how it this monetised? you can monetise a million different ways, but tiktok does pay for streaming. every time you stream or use a song on tiktok, the artist that created that song, hopefully, theoretically, gets the money. so, say something streamed many times a tiktok, the artist gets a portion of that streaming. you say theoretically doesn t it always happen? tiktok, the remix culture is really strong on that app, and so a lot of the times people take snippets of songs, remix them together, uploaded as new audio, and in that case, the person does not always get the money from it.
trump-themed chopkys. red baseball hats. i ll trade you a baseball hat for an extra long tie. but as the president s personal lawyer, yet another one of them had to get his own criminal defense lawyer today. we also got big impeachment proceedings big developments in the impeachment proceedings on capitol hill. first of all a senior state department witness showed up to testify today. that s notable because the white house and state department have told everybody they can t testify, they re not allowed to testify in the impeachment committees, so every time a currently serving administration official does show up anyway in defiance of those instructions, it sort of changes the dynamic a little bit in terms of those instructions, in terms of how everybody else in the administration is going to treat their subpoenas and whether or not that white house instruction that they shouldn t testify is seen as binding or more binding than a lawful congressional subpoena. the witness who, surpri
committees, so every time a currently serving administration official does show up anyway in defiance of those instructions, it sort of changes the dynamic a little bit in terms of those instructions, in terms of how everybody else in the administration is going to treat their subpoenas, and whether or not that white house instruction that they shouldn t testify is seen as binding or more binding than a lawful congressional subpoena. the witness who, surprise, did show up and testify today for more than six hours is david hale. we didn t receive a prepared opening statement in mr. hale s remarks so at this point we don t know much about what he said. we do, however, as of today know quite a bit about the recent and explosive testimony from another senior state department official, ambassador bill taylor. he was the first witness to lay
isolate shia this thing is escalating by the day. who is going to take the you were hand. obviously the united states wants to tamper things down but without our allies, can we do it? bret: yeah. i think they are hoping that the allies will be on the u.s. side. they are increasing sanctions. just yesterday more sanctions on two iranians who directly have been helping iranian militias inside iraq. there is a long history here. and the europeans have to make a decision whether they are going to stand with the u.s. it s been tense. those relationships, obviously. but i think this event today may change the dynamic a little bit in europe. julie: yeah. and now with that base that had just been reopened since 1990, right, in saudi arabia. it s just showing the united states is certainly putting up a fight here. i m hoping they get some help. bret: they may. and obviously they are saying that if you continue to test us, we will do