And so this is really kind of an old story. It should have been news in July when I went out and stood up and said I’m against it. I wrote about this in July, I wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal. I think that people should feel that there is a value to what musicians have created, and that’s that. On Spotify, they don’t have any settings, or any kind of qualifications for who gets what music. And that places a perception of value on what I’ve created. With Beats Music and Rhapsody you have to pay for a premium package in order to access my albums. They keep running towards streaming, which is, for the most part, what has been shrinking the numbers of paid album sales. Everybody’s complaining about how music sales are shrinking, but nobody’s changing the way they’re doing things. I didn’t see that happening, perception-wise, when I put my music on Spotify. I think there should be an inherent value placed on art. And I tried it and I didn’t like the way it felt. Well, they can still listen to my music if they get it on iTunes. Why did you leave Spotify? I’m in an office of people who are upset they can’t stream your music. While she struggles to name a role model in the music industry, she finds herself looking up to Mariska Hargitay, the actress behind Olivia Benson, and Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, these days.įor the rest of Swift’s thoughts, including why she ditched streaming music service Spotify, how she writes a song and the media’s portrayals of women, here are excerpts from our conversations. And she’s praying for an Iggy Azalea cameo. The moment’s most successful recording artist has big theatrics planned for her 2015 tour. But not everything could fit in the story, so here’s the rest of what Swift told TIME. To read all about Taylor Swift’s rise and significance, check out the feature story on the singer in this week’s magazine.
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