5 Times Taylor Swift Was A Capitalist Pig!

2. HOPE SPOTIFY DOESN’T MIND THAT BLANK SPACE BABY….

Taylor Swift shocked her fans around the world in 2014 when she made the decision to pull all her music off the popular streaming site known as Spotify.  The response was due to Spotify’s streaming of Swift’s most recent album at the time, which she wanted to go on the market for a certain amount of time before allowing Spotify to stream it for free. In a response to the press, Swift threw a swift kick at freeloaders around the world:

 In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace. Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently.

Swift would even go further as to discuss the true meaning of trading value for value (music for financial gain in this specific case):

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. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.