Stéphanie Boulay’s departure from the music industry to study law is not a retreat from creativity, but a calculated pivot toward institutional leverage. While the mainstream narrative frames her exit at 38 as a search for stability or a reaction to burnout, it is actually a diagnostic response to the total collapse of the streaming-era value proposition for mid-tier artists. Boulay is not leaving music because she no longer wants to make it. She is leaving because she has re