Taylor Swift Back on Streaming – the Same Day That Katy Perry's New Album Drops
Current status: Not on talking terms Swift and Perry battled each other for years, though neither party criticized the other by name. Before this year, Swift came closest during a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone. "For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not," Swift said at the time. "She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, 'Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?' " At the time, Swift added of the then-unnamed artist, "She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational — you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It's awkward, and I don't like it." While promoting her album, Witness, Perry opened up more than once about her current dynamic with Swift, lavishing the fellow singer with well wishes. In a 2017 interview with Australia's Today show, Perry was asked, once again, about her relationship with Swift. Again, she extended a message of forgiveness. "I mean, I love her, I always have," Perry told the interviewer. "We've had our differences but I just continue to say, 'God bless her on her journey.' " Swift has not yet responded to any one of Perry's multiple blessings or offers of forgiveness — that is, if you don't count her latest single, "Look What You Made Me Do," which seems to show Swift take on quite a number of her haters.
Taylor Swift just gave her fans the biggest gift – albeit with suspect timing.
“In celebration of 1989 selling over 10 million albums worldwide and the RIAA’s 100 million song certification announcement, Taylor wants to thank her fans by making her entire back catalog available to all streaming services tonight at midnight,” Swift’s management team shared Thursday on Twitter and Instagram.
The singer’s five albums, including 1989, will play on Spotify, Pandora, Tidal, Amazon and other streaming platforms, her rep confirmed to Billboard.
A post shared by Taylor Nation (@taylornation) on Jun 8, 2017 at 4:22pm PDT
Coincidentally (or not), Katy Perry‘s latest album, Witness, will be released at the same time.
Fans certainly saw a connection, with many taking to Twitter to speculate over Swift’s motives.
I aspire to be as petty as taylor swift releasing her discography for streaming the weekend katy perry's album drops
— Dominic Riccitello (@DominicScott) June 9, 2017
katy perry: the countdown starts now make sure to stream my album on spotify toni...
taylor swift: pic.twitter.com/Y0LTw9CObH— ninho (@tabembruno) June 9, 2017
Katy Perry: Here's my new album, stream it on Spotif-
Taylor Swift: Here's my ENTIRE album catalog on Spotify pic.twitter.com/ps8kyrXA9e— leo (@roIIingdice) June 9, 2017
Swift got into a very public spat with Spotify in 2014 after she removed her entire catalog from the streaming service, including 1989. “I think there should be an inherent value placed on art,” she told TIME.
Besides Apple Music, no streaming service was able to feature 1989. Swift only allowed Apple to stream her fifth studio album after the platform decided to pay artists royalties during its free three-month trial.
