Three More Music Debacles We Need Taylor Swift To Address

26 June 2015 | 2:42 pm | Neil Griffiths

Sort it out please, Tay Tay.

US pop princess Taylor Swift got the world talking this week when she called out music streaming service Apple Music for not paying their artists during the first free three months of user's subscriptions. 

Not only did the 25-year-old singer manage to sway the tech-giants to reverse the policy, Swift has subsequently announced that her latest acclaimed album 1989 will indeed feature on Apple Music. 

So now that she's solved that humongous problem, here are three other things we think Swift could divert her attention to, swiftly. (Sorry.)

streaming wars

She got Apple Music back into line, so why not sort the rest out as well? Listening to whatever music we want when we want is awesome. But when we have artists in our face telling us their respective service is the next greatest thing to happen to music, *cough* Tidal *cough*, it gets a bit much. We don't need playlists designed for how fast we run or competitive prices to reel us in. 

The streaming wars are getting so serious we may very well be looking at the end of Soundcloud — a service that helped so many new and indie artists to share music and helped music fans discover new talent. Sometimes you feel like you'd be better off with the good ol' cassette player or Discman. You just might need an extra bag or two to carry the copious amounts of tapes and CDs you want to listen to.

auto-tune

It seems like an obvious one, and we've hated it since it was introduced. But now in 2015, there are artists out there who CAN sing and are using the computer software to alter their voice, which begs the question: What the hell is the point of that?

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We can barely accept it when artists such as Kanye West and will.i.am who cannot sing at all use it, but UsherMary J Blige? Maybe the tipping point was in 2011 when Alice Cooper used it in his song I Am Made Of You - it hurt more than it angered people.

And here's the kicker: one of the biggest artists to make the auto-tune device so popular in mainstream music, in US rapper T-Pain can actually sing — damn well actually! Don't believe us? Check it out below. Sort it out please, Tay Tay. 

madonna

Oh, how the Padawan becomes the master.

This may seem like a controversial one seeing as this is the Queen Of Pop we're talking about, but c'mon, have you heard her latest song or seen the accompanying video? Turns out throwing as many famous people you can in one clip can't save it — not even Chris Rock. We get why she'd want to make a dance track; it's popular, it's in. But there's dance. And there's shit. Guess which one this falls into? It may seem like a steep task Taylor, but you're only a few years away from claiming the throne anyway. At the very least Tay could just pull Madonna aside and ask if everything's OK. Maybe a cuddle. No 56-year-old woman should be slamming shots back that fast.