Despite Taylor Swift refusing to put her music on spotify, her song, I Knew you Were Trouble from her 2012 album was seen briefly on Spotify. However, the song was copyrighted to paedophile former rock star, Ian Watkins and his band, Lostprophets. The song was available on Spotify for 3 days, before it was taken down again when the Guardian questioned Spotify about this matter. The song also became available on Taylor Swift's Spotify page which, after she took her music off Spotify, only consisted of her voice featured on film soundtracks and other compilations. A spokeswoman for Spotify stated that it was very weird, the situation, and the song was taken down as soon as they were notified about it.
- I Knew You Were Trouble had been live on Spotify for three days, with, according to the company’s public play count, 39,681,189 plays,
- The vast majority of the 39m plays will have come from that legitimate version.
- The “single’s” artwork was a screenshot of Canadian cartoon Scaredy Squirrel with the Lostprophets logo superimposed.
- the Lostprophets-attributed version of Swift’s song has been floating around on the internet for over a month. It was uploaded to YouTube in October by user Jared Brown
- Jared Brown has uploaded similar mislabeled tracks to his channel, such as a recording of Ice Ice Baby attributed to Eminem.
I think this portrays Spotify in a negative light as Taylor Swift has clearly stated that she didnt want her music on streaming sites such as spotify meaning that the institution should take greater care of what is put on spotify and who put it on the site. Even if Taylor Swift did want her music on Spotify, it is considerably irresponsible of Spotify to not notice this error and have to be informed about this from a 3rd party.
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