Taylor Swift has defended her decision to remove her back catalogue from music streaming site Spotify saying she doesn't feel they "fairly compensate" artists, writers, producers and creators of music.
The singer, who's latest album 1989 was unavailable to Spotify users and became the fastest selling album of the last 12 years, told Yahoo, "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 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.
"And I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free. 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."
