Taylor Swift's Woman of the Decade acceptance speech, Billboard Women in Music, Hollywood Palladium, 12 December 2019 (full text as published by Billboard)

Taylor Swift · 12 Dec 2019

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Women in music are held to a higher, sometimes impossible-feeling standard and are not allowed to coast

Their wordsWomen in music, on stage or behind the scenes, are not allowed to coast. We are held at a higher, sometimes impossible-feeling standard.
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Unregulated private equity buying up artists' music is a potentially harmful force in the music industry

Their wordsLately there’s been a new shift that has affected me personally and that I feel is a potentially harmful force in our industry, and as your resident loud person, I feel the need to bring it up. And that is the unregulated world of private equity coming in and buying up our music as if it is real estate. As if it’s an app or a shoe line.

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