By Zuko Komisa
Nothende opens up about never getting paid for her hit song ‘I Wanna Love You’.
Nothende Madumo has shared more about how she never received compensation for her hit song with Lulo Café, “I Wanna Love You,” in the most recent instalment of the Long Story Short interview series.
The song, which served as the lead single for Lulo’s 2010 debut album What About Soul, became a worldwide hit thanks to Remixes by well-known DJs from around the world.
“I faced so many degrees of whether its exploitation, sabotage, I experienced a lot of things with that song, a lot of things that many people may be aware of when it comes to the music industry, you hear this person didn’t get their money, or this person is exploiting, and I guess I just experienced it a lot from that one song.”
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Nothende describes how the conflict resulted in her being blacklisted from commercial radio stations and other media, which caused her to struggle with money and battle with anger and depression.
“I remember I went to an interview on radio and it was a Valentines and there were other artists there, because it’s love, they thought the perfect song to play would be Remember Love, and the producer of the show couldn’t find my song,
I learned that day that through my process and experience and situation with the song, it somehow resulted in my song being removed from radio. Being blacklisted is a real thing in the industry.” said Nothende.
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