{"id":52507,"date":"2015-06-21T23:44:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T15:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52507"},"modified":"2015-06-21T23:51:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T15:51:47","slug":"in-open-letter-to-apple-taylor-swift-criticizes-shocking-terrible-free-apple-music-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/21\/in-open-letter-to-apple-taylor-swift-criticizes-shocking-terrible-free-apple-music-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"In open letter to Apple, Taylor Swift criticizes &#8216;shocking, terrible&#8217; free Apple Music trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22792\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Taylor-Swift.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22792\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Taylor-Swift.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift (Facebook photo)\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Swift (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; In an open letter to Apple, Taylor Swift has criticized the company&#8217;s new streaming music service for failing to pay artists for a free three-month trial.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on her Tumblr page Sunday in a posting titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/taylorswift.tumblr.com\/post\/122071902085\/to-apple-love-taylor\">To Apple, Love Taylor<\/a>,&#8221; Swift said she would withhold her 2014 album &#8220;1989&#8221; from Apple Music, which launches June 30. The pop star called Apple&#8217;s plan not to compensate artists, writers or producers during the three-month trial &#8220;shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swift said she was speaking up for the music community at large, not for her own personal gain. Three months, she said, &#8220;is a long time to go unpaid.&#8221; Last November, Swift also pulled &#8220;1989&#8221; off Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>Apple did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; In an open letter to Apple, Taylor Swift has criticized the company&#8217;s new streaming music service for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-entertainment","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}