I don't actually agree. The "no one's forcing you to buy it" is a specific piece of rhetoric that was coined by corps to excuse predatory business practices, and I think this is definitely predatory, especially in the time locking aspect of songs. Like at the end of the day piracy is always an option with music, or any media, but I want to be clear that this is in fact predatory marketing taking advantage of a highly dedicated core group of fans. Casinos and then mobile gaming and them, more recently, gaming at large have a term for what she's doing: she's grinding up whales, and like... there are literally laws some places that have stopped common whale grinding practices because it's been proven so effective and destructive. It's disingenuous to say to that core group of fans who are being pavlov'd into buying this way aren't being forced to do so. It isn't being intellectually honest about what's happening.
There are EASILY searchable studies about this phenomena.
Taylor Swift isn't magically a great and perfect person just because she makes good and fun music. She regularly uses LGBT fans for profit (even going so far as to include You Need To Calm Down on the Eras Tour) but has not vocally called her fans to any sort of action about the ongoing attempts to eradicate LGBT and especially trans rights even in her own home state. She has proven she's willing to at least nominally speak up for political issues, but refuses to offer any rallying or financial aid to Palestinians in the midst of a literal genocide. She doesn't do anything about the TONS of CO2 emissions every month including from less than half an hour plane rides, she doesn't do anything to improve her merch quality to prevent it fron contributing to the environmental issues of fast fashion. She platformed Matty fucking Healy ffs.
And yes, she's done some good things too. I'm not denying that.
What I am saying is she is a DEEPLY flawed human being and enjoying her music or even her brand persona doesn't mean that we have to, or even should, excuse predatory business practices that historically target fans with predispositions to addiction and puts them in a horrible financial state. She has even personally seen that this happens at the Eras Tour film premier.
I am not saying no one should enjoy Taylor's music obviously. I really enjoy her music, and am especially excited for an album that appears to have been heavily produced by Florence Welch! I just have noticed there's a trend in pop fanbases to excuse scummy practices and shut down people mad about it, and it's starting to eat at me.
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