This song is dedicated to the two-hundred and fifty thousand plus artists, singers, song-writers, bands, and musicians who get little to no radio air play because the major labels have shut you out of the radio air market with their payola bribes to radio conglomerates.
Q?: Major labels- if your artists are so good, why do you have to pay money to get them on the radio?
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Lyrics
“Payola”
Ever wonder why you
Hear the same songs on the radio
20 times a day
Payola
If you want access to the
People’s air waves
Then you got to pay
Payola
Even if I change my radio dial
Another station’s playing the same song file
Payola
Payola
Record companies want you to hear
Their hits of the day
So they pay for play
Payola
It’s the secret dirty word why
Major artist’s get heard
On the radio today
Payola
Just send your millions
to our station headquarters
Then you’ll hear your songs
Playing from border to border
Payola
Payola
Payola
Payola
You fostered this monster for so many years
Now it has you in it’s clutches of fear
Corporate radio is shaken down
Record Company’s left and right
And the cost of payola
Has gone out of sight
You want the government to
Pass laws against payola bribes
Hey wait a minute
Are you sure you got the right guys?
It’s time to stop paying
That music whore
The next time radio
Comes knocking at your door
Look the monster in the eye
Tell them payola has got to go
Then stands firm and
Just say no to
Payola
Payola
It’s the same old game
The music industry plays
To brainwash you with their sound
The only thing that’s changed
Are legal loopholes they found
When the cash is passed around
Payola
Just one time I’d like to see
How much you gotta pay
So they’ll play Brittany
Payola
Payola
You think INDIE music
Is a toxic dump
At least we
Don’t pay to get our music pumped
Payola
It’s time for record companies
To have some responsibilities
Stop paying these S.O.B.s
Payola
Some day in the future
Who can say?
The day will come
When you don’t have to pay for play
(4) On the radio
What do you know we’re on the radio!
