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What Taylor Swift thinks about music industry

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American singer-songwriter (born 1989) who released her first album in 2006 and moved from country music to pop, folk and alternative.

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5 dated positions, 2014 to 2019, in their own words. Our reading of what Taylor Swift has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingWomen 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.

    ↗Taylor Swift's Woman of the Decade acceptance speech, Billboard Women in Music, Hollywood Palladium, 12 December 2019 (full text as published by Billboard)billboard.com 1st of 2 in this piece

  3. Our readingUnregulated 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.

    ↗Taylor Swift's Woman of the Decade acceptance speech, Billboard Women in Music, Hollywood Palladium, 12 December 2019 (full text as published by Billboard)billboard.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

  4. 4 years earlier

  5. Our readingIt is unfair for a streaming service to leave artists, writers and producers unpaid during a free trial

    Their wordsThree months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing.

    ↗To Apple, Love Taylor (open letter posted on Taylor Swift's Tumblr, 21 June 2015; full text as printed by Hypebot, 22 June 2015)hypebot.com

  6. 11 months earlier

  7. Our readingMusic is valuable art and should not be free

    Their wordsMusic 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.

    ↗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)attrition.org 1st of 2 in this piece

  9. Our readingGenre will become less of a career-defining path and more of an organisational tool

    Their wordsI 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.

    ↗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)attrition.org 2nd of 2 in this piece