Taylor Swift, Spotify Controversy: '1989' Singer Explains Why She Pulled Her Music From The Free Streaming Site

Taylor Swift is riding high as the biggest music artist today with 1.3 million sales of her new album 1989 in its first week of release, but it's her controversial decision to take her music off of streaming site Spotify that's had people talking lately.

In an interview with Yahoo! Music, the "Shake It Off" singer says she feels that music is an art that should be paid for and not just handed out for free.

"If I had streamed the new album, it's impossible to try to speculate what would have happened. But all I can say is that 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 the site. "And 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."

The superstar, who wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal earlier this year on the topic, even put it in context as if it was your hard work being given away without a cost to it.

"I just don't agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free," she continued. "A lot of people were suggesting to me that I try putting new music on Spotify with "Shake It Off," and so I was open-minded about it. I thought, 'I will try this; I'll see how it feels.' It didn't feel right to me. 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.' I didn't like the perception that it was putting forth. And so I decided to change the way I was doing things."

Spotify even begged the "Out of the Woods" singer to come back in an open letter and a series of tweets.

We were young when we first saw you but now there’s 40MM who say stay, stay, stay. It’s a love story baby #justsayyes pic.twitter.com/n6tHkG8GCq

— Spotify (@Spotify) November 3, 2014

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