After the attack came the rebuttal, and then the counter-rebuttal frittered in.
The next thing we expected was an epic finishing… and epic it was.
Read:
Dear Jude and @SoundcityTV Fans,
Thank you for your tweets Jude; we will certainly address each of these
tweets, especially since they are some sorts of allegation:
- Of course, we did not think we are doing your group a ‘Favour’. Just
like any other artistes, if you have a great material, we will showcase
it on our channel and various platforms. Supporting, promoting,
nurturing a talent isn’t a favour. It is obligatory, indeed?
- ‘Begging PSquare’ to Tour with? We needed the content? Soundcity is a
music and lifestyle channel, music and music programming forms 80% of
our content while lifestyle handles the remainder. We are pretty sure
the expense of touring with you then was much more than rotating music
videos, make a business case out of this and you’ll see for yourself why
we wouldn’t have ‘begged’ as you have claimed in your tweets…but hey!
We did it for the LOVE!
- Your job is to co-direct videos, and manage the group and ensure you
do things in their best interest ‘reasonably’. Ours is to play the
videos if we see them deem fit. Luckily, all your videos are co-directed
with Clarence Peters, one of Nigeria’s biggest music video directors,
partly a Soundcity Alumni. Please read between the lines of ‘reserving
the rights to play.’ to fully understand what it means. Meanwhile,
interestingly…our job also partly runs along us advising your group as
per better professional input from us, for free.
We suggest rather than you wanting to ‘create’ a union in ‘we
artiste’…you should speak and deal with your group squarely. NOBODY ever
asked for your group to perform for FREE, only that we asked for a
reasonable performance fee. You wanted to charge 10 or 12 Million or so.
We are glad that a lot of artistes came through and yes; they played to
their fans at the free event, for free.
- We don’t pay Royalties? Your job as a manager is to ensure your
artistes’ get their royalty pay cheques. Check with COSON and MCSN,
SOUNDCITY pays Royalties every calendar year for music use on Soundcity
and on sister channels, the platform carriers (DStv) doubles that effort
too. Perhaps you should ask your colleagues in the industry about how
that works. COSON is the Copyright Society of Nigeria and MCSN is the
Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria, also you can learn more about
COSON here https://www.cosonng.com
- What Blackmail? You decided not to work with our brand, we decided
not to work with your brand by withdrawing your videos from our channel
and completely stopped doing business with you. Not sure that’s what
‘Blackmail’ means. You took a decision, we took ours too. Simple.
Lastly, we will do something rewarding for you today! Please tune in
by 3PM to watch #PSQUARE: THEN & NOW! Fans will be able to catch
videos from the early years to present and also, #PSQUARE vs. #USHER:
ORIGINAL DANCE OFF! By 3:30 PM today. Really, there is no such thing as
‘Boycott’ in premium entertainment.
Actually, scratch that! We should but we won’t. We will do
#CHRISBROWN vs #USHER: DANCEOFF for 3PM today instead, #ChrisBrown is
trending right now on the Internet.
This is the last time we are speaking on this, we have a number one TV channel to run.
Thank you.
