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Taylor Swift's '1989 World Tour LIVE' Film Announced as Apple Music Exclusive

Exile714 said:
So, Apple chooses to promote this, but I can't find any info on whether Apple Music will get the soundtrack to The Force Awakens next week or if I'll have to shell out $12 for it. If it's not on Apple Music, what's the point of the service anyway?
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Disney owns the StarWars franchise going forward. Not keeping Apple Music enthusiasts and subscribers informed is the height of incompetence, or blatant arrogance.

This is but one more huge red flag, signaling how out of touch, how careless, how incompetent Apple is.

Further illustrating that Apple's massive resource of cash that assures it's bumbling success, also paints them as fat, happy and immune to immediate failure. They only look like idiots. :eek:
 
maxsix said:
Disney owns the StarWars franchise going forward. Not keeping Apple Music enthusiasts and subscribers informed is the height of incompetence, or blatant arrogance.

This is but one more huge red flag, signaling how out of touch, how careless, how incompetent Apple is.

Further illustrating that Apple's massive resource of cash that assures it's bumbling success, also paints them as fat, happy and immune to immediate failure. They only look like idiots. :eek:
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Really? Does Apple Music normally pre announce the availability of upcoming albums? Has any other streaming service Informed their users about this album yet?

I can't see why you've singled out this one album to rant about, like the world's going to end if you can't stream it?
 
ronwasserman said:
The entire thing was a setup. Mentioned that from the initial pretend battle she had with Apple Music streaming a while back. This is how Iovine rolls.
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Because that is how Apple really is. And that is how Taylor Swift really is. All that candid talk that they do is just pretend. They want your money and to manipulate you. It doesn't matter that they are already wildly successful being themselves. You nailed it.
 
Silicon-Surfer said:
Really? Does Apple Music normally pre announce the availability of upcoming albums? Has any other streaming service Informed their users about this album yet?

I can't see why you've singled out this one album to rant about, like the world's going to end if you can't stream it?
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No one's ranting so you can put away your fake outrage.
 
samcraig said:
Swift: "You can't stream my album"
Apple: "How about we fund a movie based on your 1989 album - as an exclusive to us. It will make you more money than any streaming music will on our platform or others"
Swift: "Sounds good."

I tease.
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Her tour was already being filmed. Artists negotiate deals with HBO, Netflix and the likes for distribution. This is no different, tease aside.
 
bpeeps said:
Her tour was already being filmed. Artists negotiate deals with HBO, Netflix and the likes for distribution. This is no different, tease aside.
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The crew that filmed her tour, Just like all the other major acts are hired by the band PR people. I've been in the pit with a lot of photographers and videographers.

Swift hired Apple to film that tour.
 
LizKat said:
As far as bit torrent, well... eventually people have to realize that if good artists cannot make some money, they will have to go back to some other day job. One doesn't always get immediately what's deserved for depriving an artist of royalties for a work, but eventually not paying for artistic production throws a monkeywrench in the gears and even the non-payers are affected by fewer good artists coming to market.
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I fully agree. Because I love music, I do not use torrents. But millions to do, sadly.

The way to fight torrents, which I think Apple lead the way with the music industry, is to provide a great, widely-available product at a fair price. It didn't stop everyone stealing, but motivated a lot of people to pay for music again.

That's why I am bummed about the use of exclusives. I understand it differentiates Apple's offering, but it's a step in the wrong direction. Apple should compete on capabilities, not catalog.

Locking up content in exclusives just leads to stealing, i.e fans of Taylor Swift who use Spotify or rdio have to either steal or switch their service, set-up new playlists, etc.—it's easy to guess what they will do. Making content widely available across all channels for a fair price brings customers to the table.
 
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colinchuang said:
Cool. Except there was no 'special acts' at the Sydney show. My wife was there. Done deliberately for filming this.
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Sounds like there was more than one show...

AppleInsider.com said:
iTunes Connect provides a preview of the video, which depicts the stadium crowd wearing color coordinated LED-lit wristbands, and the concert itself featuring appearances by Mick Jagger, Selena Gomez, Fetty Wap, Miranda Lambert, Alanis Morissette, Wiz Kalifa, Mary J Blige, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Beck and St Vincent.
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Probably in the minority on MR judging by some of these comments but I enjoy Taylor Swift's music so I'll be looking forward to this.
 
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Her protest of Apple Music trial....was this just the beginning to lining her pockets for this exclusive deal? Well played! lol
 
kupkakez said:
Probably in the minority on MR judging by some of these comments but I enjoy Taylor Swift's music so I'll be looking forward to this.
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These days I suspect some of the negative posts in comments sections or forums of any sort are just a displacement of anger over some other situation or maybe the effect of "a bad hair day". In the case of reactions to pieces about celebrities or other apparently successful people, there can also be a component of envy or resentment.

Of course there can also be valid reasons for not liking artists' arrangements with producers or distributors. Still, it's pretty common regardless of the topic to enounter one-line negativities that are completely gratuitous. There's a lot of free-floating anger out there. It surfaces in different ways, and making semi-anonymous posts online is one of them. Surely they are more fun to commit than to wade through as a reader.

Anyway I wish Ms. Taylor happiness, which is the best of fortunes, after all is said and done. I think it must be difficult to stay true to one's inner self as the fan base grows and expectations keep rising. And there's so little time to reflect on a path forward and its costs versus rewards. The sheer work she puts in for her shows would put many of us to shame...
 
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Winni said:
Maybe. Doesn't change the fact that she only produces what Mick Jagger has called "cheap American throw-away music" in the past. (No, he did not say that about her - Swift was not even born back then. But the concept still applies.)

And talking about mass appeal... Well, someone else got more than a quarter of a million people in their stadium:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_in_Rio_(album)
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In 2002, when the music industry was completely different than it is now, when people still purchased full albums, when streaming and the digital store didn't exist, yes that's totally comparable.
 
Bubble gum pop.... and the Barbie reference in The Hollywood Reporter article was spot on.
 
ThunderSkunk said:
1989? A 1989 tour? Was she even alive in 1989? Yeah, I'll bet she has loads of real fond memories of those days, and isn't just peddling the rolling 25-year faux-nostalgia shlock that national marketing trends have been relying on whenever the product guys run out of new ideas. Like the 70s in the 90s/00s, the 50's in the 80's, etc.
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Uhmm... she kinda named it after the year she was born... so, yeah. I'd imagine she is pretty fond of that year, concrete memories or not. Sorta like how Sidney Crosby wears #87 for the year he was born, and Connor McDavid wears #97... even if she chose to take some inspiration from that years pop music to signal her complete divorce from Country Music, it isn't like she'd be short of examples... Madonna, Michael & Janet Jackson, Prince and even The Cure were pumping out good pop music then.

Does the band 'The 1975' have to represent everything to do with the year 1975? Or are they allowed to take their inspiration from elsewhere?
 
ThunderSkunk said:
1989? A 1989 tour? Was she even alive in 1989? Yeah, I'll bet she has loads of real fond memories of those days, and isn't just peddling the rolling 25-year faux-nostalgia shlock that national marketing trends have been relying on whenever the product guys run out of new ideas. Like the 70s in the 90s/00s, the 50's in the 80's, etc.
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uhm thats her birth year silly

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The Apple Music exclusive documentary was filmed on one leg of Swift's world tour, at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Austrailia on November 28, 2015. The film will include the singer's entire performance from the Sydney show
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that makes no sense as there were no guest stars at her shows in australia
 
Disclaimer: I don't care for Taylor Swift. But this promo doesn't bother me one bit.

Why?

Because I don't have to watch it. Apple's not forcing us to watch this concert in order to use our Apple devices and services.

Exile714 said:
So, Apple chooses to promote this, but I can't find any info on whether Apple Music will get the soundtrack to The Force Awakens next week or if I'll have to shell out $12 for it. If it's not on Apple Music, what's the point of the service anyway?
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First, LOL.

Second, why not check back on the release date before getting indignant? Disney is being very controlling with the OST because track names apparently contain spoilers.

maxsix said:
Disney owns the StarWars franchise going forward. Not keeping Apple Music enthusiasts and subscribers informed is the height of incompetence, or blatant arrogance.

This is but one more huge red flag, signaling how out of touch, how careless, how incompetent Apple is.

Further illustrating that Apple's massive resource of cash that assures it's bumbling success, also paints them as fat, happy and immune to immediate failure. They only look like idiots. :eek:
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Teaming up with one of the best-selling and most influential artists today is a red flag of how out of touch, careless, and incompetent Apple is?


If Apple catered exclusively to nerds, like many people in this thread seem to want, they would have gone out of business around 1990.

Tech198 said:
yay Australia :D About time we get a bit of recognition.
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Triple J did a "takeover" on Beats 1 last month for AusMusic Month.
 
Love or hate her but she certainly is one smarty cookie. She's probably already worth more than the rest of us put together.
 
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