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3 Songs That Are Basically Artists’ One Big F*** You to Their Record Label

From the subtle to the point blank, these three diss tracks targeting overbearing record labels.

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We should all know by now that the music industry is a broken system. But if you didn’t already know, here are three songs that brought the sinister workings of the industry to light. Some more tongue-in-cheek and subtle than others, but they all have one thing in common: giving record labels a big middle finger.

“Love Song” by Sara Bareilles

Sara Bareilles released “Love Song” on her 2007 album Little Voice. As her major-label debut, it’s a bit ironic that the lead single turned out to be a diss on the record label itself. But, as Bareilles later explained, she was being pushed to write so much for the album that she got burnt out. Nothing was working after that until she decided to write a song for herself instead of at the label’s urging. Luckily, the label ended up liking the tongue-in-cheek song, but maybe because they didn’t know it was about them.

“It was actually written for my record label,” she said in 2011. “I had been turning in new music, [and] I was getting the red light. I couldn’t go into the studio yet because they were waiting for something. But........

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