Lars Ulrich has spoken out about his feelings towards streaming and modern music in general.

The Metallica drummer famously and very vocally shared his hate of illegal downloading along with his band mates back when downloading was just emerging.

It appears that Lars is not set against modern ways of accessing however, stating his support for services such as Apple Music.

In a recent interview he said: "I believe streaming is good for music. People sit there and go, "I'm not getting paid very much for streaming"....but streaming is a choice on all fronts. It's a choice for the fan to be part of....it's a choice for the artists who are involved in making their music available on streaming services. It's a choice ...by the record companies that represent the artist....15 years ago those choices didn't exist.”

Despite his apparent approval of the public being able to stream their music, he did admit that streaming is if greater advantage to more established artists such as Metallica.
He continued: "streaming probably does benefit artists with higher profiles, yes. A lot of these playlists that are being made available for people in the streaming service, they seem to feature higher profile artists and that just seems to be the way it's sort of playing out right now."

His attitude seems rather selfish, almost as if he is saying that it is tough luck that newer artists are less likely to be as highly featured as established artists. Further to this, Lars also seems to think that modern music is less engaging than it used to be.

"One of the main reasons I connect less with new music in my life now is because there's less great new music to connect with. I mean a lot of the stuff that's been played is just regurgitated, this year's flavour, this thing, but it's not people on the leading edge like The Beatles or the Miles Davises or the Jimmy Hendrixes taking us all by the hand into these completely unknown, unchartered musical territories."

Lars won’t be competing with Taylor Swift as champion for recording artists any time soon but at least his new change of heart seems to imply that Metallica are willing to embrace streaming as the modern medium.