The same day Rolling Stone asks if Taylor Swift can save the music industry, as if she had super powers like superman – and that was a very dumb question – the supergirl has just demonstrated she can fail too… actually Swift beat Swift in Canada and this is a weird story!
According to the Independent, ‘a iTunes glitch’ is responsible for the disaster, the same day that Swift released a single, ‘Welcome to New York’, from her awaited new album ‘1989’. Somehow, an eight-second track claiming to be ‘Track 3’ off ‘1989’ found its way into the iTunes store in Canada, and many fans did buy it without even sampling the track?? What a stupid move, or is it blind love from brainwashed fans? Anyway, these people bought an eight-second track of pure static, white noise for 1.29 Canadian dollars, and this track about nothing reached the top of Canada’s iTunes chart… not the real Taylor Swift song! Isn’t it ridiculous and funny at the same time? Taylor Swift is a big machinery, selling millions of songs as soon as they pop up on iTunes, so you would expect a bit more control from people in charge? Or is it Apple’s fault and in this case, what was the problem? Do they expect see this to be repeated?
So now a song of 8 seconds of static is number one in Canada, and I see the jokes coming,… but the exact same thing would have happened in the US , so please curb your mockery, there are herds and herds of Swift fans and they all behave like sheep … But I wonder, will she get some royalties from this white noise song? Will she benefit from being number one even though it is with this empty track #3? You can call me Taylor Swift basher, but I would of course exchange any of her songs against this 8 seconds of white noise,…. but that’s really really just me.
So far nothing has come from the Taylor or Apple camps to explain what happened and how they will compensate these disappointed fans… Poor babies!!
