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Celeb News: Apple replies to Taylor, will pay Artists during trial
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Taylor has the world at her hands
She could literally write an essay and end world hunger
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I mean they literally showed Shake It Off playing on Apple Music at the WWDC She was always going to be on Apple music from the get-go.
The fact that people keep buying these elaborate PR stunts concocted by her label's unscrupulous marketing team. People believing that Taylor really ever wasn't going to be on Apple Music, all because she's some sort of saintly altruist.
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Originally posted by Sazare
I mean they literally showed Shake It Off playing on Apple Music at the WWDC She was always going to be on Apple music from the get-go.
The fact that people keep buying these elaborate PR stunts concocted by her label's unscrupulous PR team. People believing that Taylor herself plays any part in these obvious marketing ploys or that she really ever wasn't going to be on Apple Music, all because she's some sort of altruist.
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Don't clock Swifties like that
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Originally posted by YoYo
What evidence do you have that Apple changed their policy to avoid a media **** storm, rather than, say, they realized the error of their ways?
We're all operating on common sense here.
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Isn't it the same ****ing thing?
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QUEEN!!!
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Originally posted by Sazare
I mean they literally showed Shake It Off playing on Apple Music at the WWDC She was always going to be on Apple music from the get-go.
The fact that people keep buying these elaborate PR stunts concocted by her label's unscrupulous marketing team. People believing that Taylor really ever wasn't going to be on Apple Music, all because she's some sort of saintly altruist.
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Firstly, they didn't show any Taylor song playing at the presentation. Second, Apple Music is integrated with iTunes, so songs from the iTunes Music store that are not available on the streaming service show up on the list of most popular.anyway in case you wanna buy them.
So no honey, Taylor's songs being on the presentation don't prove anything. She just happened to have the #1 single (Bad Blood) and a top 40 single (Shake it Off) at that time on iTunes and the screen captured that.
Then again, no matter when the presentation would have been aired, such slayage would be difficult to avoid, wouldn't it?
D for your effort though.
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Originally posted by Doc
Like, you mean to tell me within the span of 15 hours, Taylor Swift posted that essay, Apple's team met and discussed, completely changed their minds, contacted Taylor to tell her the news, and had time left over to conduct interviews with Billboard and Buzzfeed? On a Sunday no less?
Felicia plea
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I love how ATRLers of all people think they can predict how a huge empire like Apple works Sis, this ain't your job at KFC!
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Taylor getting all the haters stressed and depressed. Go easy on them, Lord!
All the support Taylor is getting from fellow artists is crazy.
Not Elvis Costello appointing her future president already.
The impact just too much.
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Interesting..
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Originally posted by Doc
Like, you mean to tell me within the span of 15 hours, Taylor Swift posted that essay, Apple's team met and discussed, completely changed their minds, contacted Taylor to tell her the news, and had time left over to conduct interviews with Billboard and Buzzfeed? On a Sunday no less?
Felicia plea
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Wait Now that you say this it kind of screams of a PR stunt to be honest
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Originally posted by Sazare
I mean they literally showed Shake It Off playing on Apple Music at the WWDC She was always going to be on Apple music from the get-go.
The fact that people keep buying these elaborate PR stunts concocted by her label's unscrupulous marketing team. People believing that Taylor really ever wasn't going to be on Apple Music, all because she's some sort of saintly altruist.
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Also, if Indie labels weren't supporting Apple, then why was FKA Twigs everywhere on Apple Music site & on the commercial. While she's signed to XL, which was supposedly one of the record labels that weren't for it?
I'm not hating on Taylor, I actually stan for her. But, just because I stan for her doesn't mean that everything she does I have to believe
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Originally posted by Raava
I love how ATRLers of all people think they can predict how a huge empire like Apple works Sis, this ain't your job at KFC!
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Do you not know how business works? Major corporations do stunts like this all the time sis
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Originally posted by zach
So first Taylor is irrelevant to Apple and they don't need her, and now they planned a publicity stunt together? Okay then.
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This people are trying so hard to find any excuse
Her power
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Originally posted by Caesar
Also, if Indie labels weren't supporting Apple, then why was FKA Twigs everywhere on Apple Music site & on the commercial. While she's signed to XL, which was supposedly one of the record labels that weren't for it?
I'm not hating on Taylor, I actually stan for her. But, just because I stan for her doesn't mean that everything she does I have to believe
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We can group indie artists together as much as we can group all pop artists together. WTF twigs has anything to do with this? The fact that we have a few indie artists that support Apple Music from the get go doesn't invalidate the fact that majority of them were unhappy with their policy regarding royalties payment during free trials. Same logic regarding her being from XL.
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How can yall be so stupid, i cant
Apple was already going to pay everyone- equally, thats why she she's against it smh
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Originally posted by Caesar
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But no, they're going to claim that this is just a demo of the new iTunes integration with the new version of iOS. Because of course Apple is going to simultaneously demo their new streaming service with music that isn't going to be available on it
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Originally posted by Doc
Like, you mean to tell me within the span of 15 hours, Taylor Swift posted that essay, Apple's team met and discussed, completely changed their minds, contacted Taylor to tell her the news, and had time left over to conduct interviews with Billboard and Buzzfeed? On a Sunday no less?
Felicia plea
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I'm saying.
You'd think they'd be smart enough to at least wait a couple days. How gauche
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Originally posted by Caesar
Also, if Indie labels weren't supporting Apple, then why was FKA Twigs everywhere on Apple Music site & on the commercial. While she's signed to XL, which was supposedly one of the record labels that weren't for it?
I'm not hating on Taylor, I actually stan for her. But, just because I stan for her doesn't mean that everything she does I have to believe
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You know what is actually more reasonable explaination? Apple just knew whatever they did they would win. ****ing artists over with that 3-month span would have saved them shitloads of money. Now that they got called out on it (which they were most likely prepared for) they just get good PR instead for being customer friendly. They just eat the costs because its nothing to Apple. Does not have to do anything with Taylor. Taylor definitely the "good guy" here for saving lots of people in music industry from corporate greed.
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