Taylor Swift's Calls Apple Music Free Trial 'Shocking And Disappointing'; Songstress Holds Back 1989 From The Streaming Site
Taylor Swift's 1989 album is not giving permission for 1989 album tracks to be played the Apple music streaming site,
In a long letter posted in Tumblr entitled "To Apple, Love Taylor", the Bad Blood singer explained that she is against Apple's move not to pay musicians and other artists for their music for the first three months in the trial period, CNN reports.
"Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers, or artists for those three months. I find it to be shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company," she wrote.
In the letter, the songstress acknowledges Apple's role being one of her best partners in promoting her music. However, she made her stand in behalf of both budding and established artists in the industry.
"This is not about me. Thankfully I am on my fifth album and can support myself, my band, crew, and entire management team by playing live shows. This is about the new artist or band that has just released their first single and will not be paid for its success. This is about the young songwriter who just got his or her first cut and thought that the royalties from that would get them out of debt. This is about the producer who works tirelessly to innovate and create, just like the innovators and creators at Apple are pioneering in their field...but will not get paid for a quarter of a year's worth of plays on his or her songs."
It can be remembered that Swift pulled out her song from Spotify in November last year for the site's stance in providing her music not only to paying subscribers but for everybody, The Guardian said.
"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," the singer said that time.
The Verge also remembered that Taylor Swift wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal emphasizing that music, just like any other art, should be paid for.
"Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for," she wrote.
