The young pop/country singer-songwriter Taylor Swift revealed to Yahoo Music last Thursday why she had she recently pulled her music from Spotify.
According to the Shake it Off singer, "All I can say is that music is changing so quickly," 24-year-old Swift admitted in the issue of her controversial stance and refusal to stream music online. The blonde-haired singer continued, "The landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music. And I just don't agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free."
Swift's words was also out in the Wall Street Journal that was published earlier this year. She said to Yahoo, "I try to stay really open-minded about things, because I do think it's important to be a part of progress. But I think it's really still up for debate whether this is actual progress, or whether this is taking the word 'music' out of the music industry."
She also disclosed to Yahoo that several experts had advised her to put her first single from 1989, "Shake It Off," on the streaming service. She reasoned that it did not feel right to her that people are not paying for the music that they own. And so, "I decided to change the way I was doing things."
Swift, whose fifth studio album sold a record high of 1.30 million copied in it's first week alone, said that she was amazed by the amount of support she's received from her fans. The young singer confessed, "I hoped that I had created something that people would want to buy. I just was hoping and praying that people still perceived there to be a value to someone's musical creationings."
