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Not sure who you mean ^^
Anyway, Def Leppard were interviewed by Rolling Stone and they mention Taylor a couple of times.
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It's these new versions, rather than the originals, that are available on services like Spotify. What are your feelings on streaming?
Mixed. I really empathized with Taylor Swift's letter to Apple, where she basically said, "I don't need the money, but the young artists do." Now, the amount of money you're going to get from those services wouldn't buy you dog food, but they should at least pay it. The main thing is, music has been devalued so much, and it's really hard to see how it could ever climb back up to its old pinnacle. In the past, music became a part of you. You spent time with a song or a record. Now you can hit a button and delete it and it's gone. It never gets into your DNA.
On the other hand, if I check into a hotel room and I want to sit back and listen to Miles Davis's Kind of Blue or something, and then I realize I left my iPod on the bus, which is six miles away, I can just say, "Ah, I'll stream it." And that's an amazing thing. You can listen to just about anything that's ever been recorded, and for just a few dollars a month. So it's a spectacular system. I get it. I just wish they'd pay the artist a bit more.
You mentioned Taylor Swift earlier. A few years back she and Def Leppard performed together for an episode of CMT Crossroads. How was that?
It was great, because it was so not expected. When somebody like Taylor Swift does an interview, and the interviewer mentions Crossroads and she says, "There's only one artist I would ever do it with — Def Leppard," what can you say? After that happened, somebody walked into our dressing room with a laptop open and said, "Have you heard about this?" And we went, "No." But then we listened to what she said and it was, "Holy ****!" But we figured, "Taylor will contact us if she really means it." And, well, she did. Because she was born to our music. She was born in '89, and her mom was a huge fan. So she was listening in her mother's stomach all through '88. And I just love the fact that doing something like that knocks noses out of joint. People go, "Def Leppard and Taylor Swift? What are they thinking?" Well, that's exactly what we're thinking. The Four Tops don't need to make a single with the Temptations, you know what I mean? Now, the Four Tops doing a single with Motörhead…
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz3lpF1wrDB
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Radio? Not that I am complaining
first u guys said that WD will smash in Europe
and then WD will definitely make a top 10 entry last week
