Ben Lee has released his latest single through a fledging social media platform which rewards users and creators with cryptocurrency.
‘Dinner With Chris Stein’ was written about a dinner Lee had with the Blondie guitarist close to two decades ago.
As Lee explains: “We had a fascinating conversation and at one point Chris said something that sounded shocking to my idealistic 21 year old ears. ‘If I was 15 now and wanted to destroy the system, I don’t think I’d pick a guitar, I’d become a computer hacker – that’s where the real subversive kids are now’.
“This conversation, my feelings about it at the time, and my reflections now are the subject of my new song .”
In keeping with this subject matter, Lee shared the song via Steemit, the aforementioned social media site. Creators are paid depending on how many ‘upvotes’ their content receives.
“There is no way I could have foreseen the shifts in technology and the delivery of music that would come over the next two decades”, Lee continues. “The cultural landscape is almost unrecognisable.”
Check out the song here, and embrace the future.
