[kweinber]

"Taylor seems quite out of touch with the shape of the industry here."

She is VERY in touch with its shape... And she is trying to change it. She also famously ditched Spotify and has been consistent in using her fame and leverage.

What she is doing is very important...Spotify is bankrupting artists while bleeding cash with no real business model to make the money back. She was outlasting them while the vc money ran out and it was working.... Now that Apple is in the game, the danger of them using their cash to bankrupt artists with a bad business almost indefinitely is very scary to artists. She is trying to be diplomatic while making a point.