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'Shake It Off' causes controversy in Australia
For people who aren’t aware, on Australia Day (Jan 26) a radio station known as Triple J plays a Hottest 100 Countdown which people vote for songs played on the station throughout the year. As Triple J is based off mainly independent acts, songs such as ‘Thrift Shop’ and ‘Riptide’ have managed to claim the number one spot and this has angered listeners in the past as those songs made it big on commercial radio.
It’s pretty much one of the biggest events music wise in Australia during the year.
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Shake It Off received zero airplay on Triple J last year and is therefore not included in the list of aired songs included on the station’s website for Hottest 100 voting.
However the site allows listeners to add their favourite songs not on the list.
That means Swift fans gonna vote, vote, vote for Shake It Off hoping to have a victory against hipster musical snobbery.
Voting closes this Sunday night, with the Hottest 100 airing on Triple J from midday January 26.
Triple J station manager Chris Scaddan said the Swift action is completely within the rules.
“We supply a list of over 2000 songs that have been played on Triple J in 2014,” Scaddan said. “People are welcome to add songs manually to their voting shortlist and those votes count exactly the same as anything voted from the Triple J list.”
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While Like a Version covers are eligible for the Hottest 100, this one is not as it aired in 2015 not 2014.
The #tay4hottest100 hashtag was trending on Twitter after being started by Buzzfeed’s Mark Di Stefano this week.
Swift fan Eliza Day was already on-board two weeks ago, having used her entire 10 votes to include songs from Swift’s 1989 album.
Ironically when she Instgrammed her votes one of the first likes came from Peking Duk, whose High is favourites to top the Hottest 100.
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Songs that have hit No. 1 on the ARIA mainstream chart have topped the Hottest 100 in the past, but usually Triple J have played these before commercial radio, including Macklemore’s Thrift Shop, The Offspring’s Pretty Fly For a White Guy and the Cranberries’ Zombie.
An ARIA No.1, Shake It Off was the third highest selling song in Australia last year, behind Pharrell’s Happy and Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass.
Three other Pharrell songs are in the Hottest 100 voting list this year — Marilyn Monroe, Hunter and Gust of Wind, but not Happy, possibly as it was released in November 2013.
However Todd Terje’s Inspector Norse, released in 2012, is eligible for votes this year.
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Deluded Triple J listeners have also compared Swift fans to ISIS, claiming both need to be wiped out.
Melbourne’s Eliza Day, who helped start the Swift campaign two weeks ago, was told “I hope you die a slow, painful death” last night by an Instagram user called dermy.wormy.
“I was talking to some friends yesterday and asking if they were going to vote. They said that although they don’t mind Taylor Swift they had no plans to vote. For her or anyone. But following the unpleasant comments left on my Instagram account they said they would absolutely be voting now as a mark of solidarity against cyber bullying.
“Up until now I’ve been in a Swiftie utopia where everyone is on board and being super supportive. I voted for Taylor a few weeks ago, and anyone who knows me or follows me on social media knows I am also a fierce and loyal supporter of many lesser known bands and artists, so I think most people understand that I simply voted for the songs I loved. They just happened to be by someone well known.”
Day said she cannot understand the hate and anger that has surrounded the campaign, which was started in jest by Buzzfeed and has snowballed over the last few days.
One fan has started an online petition titled “Do not allow Taylor Swift to feature in the annual triple j Hottest 100” which cites the above rule and adds Swift’s songs being heard on Triple J would “ruin the pure essence of triple j, sure we have had songs like Thrift Shop and Pretty Fly For A White Guy win, however this (sic) were at least played on triple j at least once and were listenable before it became overplayed to death” and “If wanted to listen to this song, I would not be listening to triple j. I would listen to NOVA or a TODAYFM program.”
Triple J’s publicist declined to comment on the potential impact of the voting clause and said the station has no more comments to make on the Taylor Swift story.
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