Okay, so we don't make it any kind of secret that we don't like Taylor Swift around here. We just...don't. She looks like she smells weird. Anywho-it looks like she is about to piss off a bunch more people because she has just pulled her entire catalog from Spotify because "artists shouldn't undervalue their music" or some cunty shit. Anywho, here's the scoop via E! News:
Taylor Swift just dumped Spotify, and the music streaming service is having a real tough time letting her go.
Swift, who is on track to sell over 1 million copies of her album 1989 in its first week of release, has removed all her albums from Spotify. Every. Single. One. So not only did she cut out the music streaming service from accessing her brand-new album, but she just up and "yoinked" every last song that was available to listeners.
And Spotify is absolutely crushed, which is no surprise since according to the letter the company wrote to Swift begging her to come back, 16 million of the 40 million subscribers have played her song in the last month and she's on over 19 million playlists.
Taylor herself recently blamed streaming services as one of the reasons album sales have been so low in recent years in her op-ed piece she wrote for the Wall Street Journal:
In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace. Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently.
On one hand, Taylor should have a say in how her music is distributed, and it's a widely known fact that artists do not get as much money from a service like Spotify in comparison to a service like iTunes where you pay to download the songs/albums. This could be Taylor's way of trying to make the change she wants to see in the music industry, as noted in her op-ed piece.
On the other hand, Swift fans are quite hurt over her decision to pull her music from Spotify, with some going as far as to call the move greedy. And we all know how much Taylor's fans mean to her, so will this drastic action hurt her reputation amongst her people?
Okay, so basically she's all butt hurt because with streaming services like Spotify around, she may not be able to buy that millionth pair of socks from the 1940's that are like so adorbs you guys. In my opinion, the less available Taylor Swift music is, the better because I like my trips to H&M to be Swift-free thank you very much. The real kicker is that she actually wrote an Op-ed piece for a respected news source...that's like having Corky from Life Goes On help Stephen Hawking build a fucking time machine.
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