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For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story (op-ed by Taylor Swift, The Wall Street Journal, 7 July 2014; full text as reposted to the Infowarrior mailing list)

Taylor Swift · 7 Jul 2014

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  1. Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It's my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album's price point is.
  2. I want to make music that reflects all of my influences, and I think that in the coming decades the idea of genres will become less of a career-defining path and more of an organizational tool.

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