"I think butts are just great" Kate Nash wants to raise money for tour with Onlyfans
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- Kate Nash wants to help finance her tours by selling photos on OnlyFans, as increased tour costs often result in losses and streaming hardly generates any income.
- The musician plans to share pictures of her backside, as she already posts them frequently.
- Nash criticizes rising costs and stagnating fees on tours, which often remain unprofitable despite sold-out concerts.
- The singer also sees her project as a feminist protest, using control over her body to secure fair pay for her crew and high-quality shows.
British singer Kate Nash (37) has announced that she expects to earn more from selling photos on OnlyFans than from her concerts. She is joining the platform because it is currently particularly difficult for artists to make a profit from touring.
Under the slogan "Butts 4 Tour Buses", the musician wants to sell photos of her backside. The OnlyFans income is ultimately intended to subsidize her shows, as she tells the BBC that tours today almost only generate losses rather than profits.
But Nash also sees her project as a kind of protest in which she, as a woman, is taking control of her body in order to finance her passion - by which she means her 18-year career.
Either singers have to sell enough T-shirts or cut wages
Nash, who recently completed a three-week US tour and will soon be touring the UK, Ireland, Germany and other European countries, tells BBC: "I'm losing money on these tours."
The only way to make a profit on tour is to "either sell enough T-shirts to cover the debt, or cut wages, lay off the band and crew, or travel dangerously".
Speaking to the BBC, the singer emphasized that she was not prepared to compromise on the quality of her shows. "It puts me in a position where I don't benefit from touring. So is this a job or a passion project?"
"I enjoy taking photos of my butt"
So now Nash wants to try it with photos of her backside. She already posts them a lot anyway. "I think the butt is the perfect combination of comedy and sexuality," says the singer.
And she adds: "I really like bottoms. I just think they're great. I enjoy taking photos of my butt. I've always been a bit of an exhibitionist. So I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm already posting them online anyway." The musician's monthly subscription will cost just under nine euros (the equivalent of around eight francs).
Nash is not the first singer to try to generate additional income with such platforms. Lily Allen (39) already stated that she now makes more money from photos of her feet than from streaming her songs.
Musicians cancel tours due to high costs
On Instagram, Nash addresses her fans with a request: "You don't have to stream my music, I'm good with the 0.003 of a penny per stream, thank you."
She is alluding to the fact that streaming services such as Spotify pay artists a pittance: They receive just 0.3 cents per stream. Streaming services have been criticized for this for a while.
The high cost of touring has become a problem in the music industry. Artists such as Rachel Chinouriri (26) and Rat Boy (28) have had to cancel tours in recent months, blaming the costs.
"Festival and ticket prices have gone up dramatically, but musicians' wages haven't," Nash told the BBC. "You might play a venue that you've sold out several times, but you get the same fee as you did ten years ago. But all the other costs have gone up."
Some companies and a "select group" of artists are making big profits from music, she says, "but the majority are losing money."
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