It would seem that Taylor Swift thinks just about as highly of Spotify as she reportedly does her arch-rival, Katy Perry. According to the latest gossip news updates, the Instagram bikini feet model has pulled all of her songs from Spotify indefinitely, after the sales of her new album, '1989', went platinum in its debut week--selling nearly 1.3 million copies. The "22" singer explained that even though she had already released " Shake It Off" through the music streaming service, Taylor felt that her further involvement condoned the theft and piracy of art and music. Although, the eccentric cat lady may have just realized that her net worth would be far healthier if she forced everyone to buy the songs directly, instead of giving them away for next to nothing though some middle men she never liked in the first place.
From the looks of things, Taylor Swift's predictions that people would still pay for music if you worked hard for almost 24-whole-months on it seems to have been proven true as '1989' sees the best record sells of any other album in a dozen-years.
According to CNN, you would have to go all the way back to Marshal Mathers' glory days to find a comparable success story:
"'1989' sold almost 1.3 million copies in its debut week...No one has posted such big numbers since Eminem's 'The Eminem Show' sold just over 1.3 million during its second week on the charts in June 2002.
"It also makes Swift the only single artist to go platinum in 2014."
Perhaps, it has more to do with the huge payday, than it does any artistic integrity--being that "Shake It Off" was recently available through the service--but Taylor Swift has pulled all her songs from digital music streaming service, Spotify in the wake of her good fortune.
During a recent interview with Yahoo Music, Taye-Taye explained that she had allowed her tunes to part of some abominable music industry experiment long enough, while also making it sound as though if she had been paid more she may have reconsidered (via E! News):
"A lot of people were suggesting to me that I try putting new music on Spotify with "Shake It Off," and so I was open-minded about it.
"I felt like I was saying to my fans, 'If you create music someday, if you create a painting someday, someone can just walk into a museum, take it off the wall, rip off a corner off it, and it's theirs now and they don't have to pay for it.'
"Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment...an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music."
Well, Taylor Swift is America's country singing sweetheart...and, after all, what could be more American than refusing do to something out of greed and calling it freedom?
