Taylor Swift reveals why she quit Spotify: 'I will not dedicate my life's work to an experiment'
Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. "Music is changing so quickly and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment," she told Yahoo, adding that she does not believe music is valueless and should be free. "I'm not willing to contribute my life's work to an experiment that I don't feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music." open image in gallery The album sleeve for Taylor Swift's 1989 Swift insists she is "really open-minded" and wants to be "a part of progress", but thinks Spotify is "taking the word 'music' out of the music industry". "I felt like I was saying to my fans, 'If you create music someday, if you create a painting someday, someone can just walk into a museum, take it off the wall, rip off a corner off it and it's theirs now and they don't have to pay for it," she said.
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