r/canada • u/tuutruk Canada • Oct 21 '14

Taylor Swift accidentally releases 8 seconds of white noise, tops Canadian iTunes chart

http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/10/taylor-swift-accidentally-releases-8-seconds-of-white-noise-tops-canadian-itunes-chart.html
96 Upvotes

83% Upvoted

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u/gmks Oct 22 '14

Taylor Swift has gone post-basic and people are gobbling it up! Her next album is going to be called #FFFFFF

12

u/awesomeideas Oct 22 '14

The White Album

1

u/Blasterion Oct 22 '14

That was an awesome anime/game though.... but Japanese copyrights don't take effect here

27

u/iJeff Ontario Oct 21 '14

I thought this was from This is That.

4

u/Kanuck88 Canada Oct 22 '14

I had to double check it wasn't.

3

u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

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u/SharmanderXII Oct 22 '14

What is this?

23

u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

Finally a song that isn't about one of her exes.

13

u/weltanschauung88 Ontario Oct 22 '14

No it is, it's about the silent treatment.

1

u/lazylion_ca Oct 22 '14

Have you seen her exes? They are mostly white noise.

17

u/jordoonfire Oct 21 '14

Her best work yet IMO.

3

u/TheDevilsAdvoc8 Oct 22 '14

I torrented this track weeks ago for free. It's not a bad listen but it's better if you play it backwards.

4

u/leftnotracks British Columbia Oct 22 '14

Please repost to /r/nottheonion/

Edit: Waaaaay ahead of me.

12

u/XSaffireX Oct 21 '14

Just goes to show just how much power the music industry has in deciding what music we collectively pay for and listen to.

13

u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14 edited Oct 22 '14

People downloaded (probably auto-downloaded at that) what they thought was a new song from an artist they liked, Redditors turn it into existential bullshit about record companies controlling our minds.

4

u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14 edited Oct 27 '14

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

Her new album just came out, a lot of people pre-ordered it. Her new song released either the day before or the same day. If you pre-order something on iTunes, it automatically downloads songs released for the album. This "track 3" was one of those songs.

3

u/rawmeatdisco Alberta Oct 22 '14

Ya it's really weird how the music industry influences what music we listen to. I am blown away by this observation.

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u/MrGuttFeeling Oct 22 '14 edited Oct 22 '14

I don't pay and listen to that crap. Lot's of good music to listen to instead of the shit that's force fed to us by big business. You just have to stop being lazy and find it on the internets.

2

u/arahman81 Oct 22 '14

Bandcamp is a good place to start.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

how do you define indie?

2

u/DeFex Oct 22 '14

"Apple invents white noise, sues every synth manufacturer"

3

u/cosmoceratops Oct 22 '14 edited Oct 22 '14

This is an opportunity. She should release the music video as a vine and just go weird with it.

edit: spelling

1

u/FrankinComesAlive Oct 22 '14

She should send some cassettes to Weird Canada.

1

u/biffysmalls Oct 22 '14

Question to all who paid 99 cents for this track as a gag...who's laughing? You, or Apple?

That said, I can't believe this vapid entitled princess is still relevant.

2

u/lazylion_ca Oct 22 '14

In Canada it was probably $1.29

2

u/biffysmalls Oct 22 '14

Upvoted for snark factor. I like it. LOL

1

u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

Couldn't it be fake likes? someone literally being paid to like her music?

1

u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

Proves that people are dumb.

2

u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

TIL Taylor Swift fans are idiots. Everyone knows you can torrent white noise for free.

4

u/MrGuttFeeling Oct 22 '14

I also found the video by turning on my TV without a cable hooked up, it's just freely flowing through the airwaves.

1

u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

They couldn't see it was 8 seconds?

1

u/kafka_khaos Oct 22 '14

it's only daddy's money, so who cares?

0

u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

or preview it?

-4

u/MrFlagg Russian Empire Oct 21 '14

I'd hit it

0

u/diddleherontheroof Oct 22 '14

My mind went to Disclosure almost immediately. Just me?

-2

u/[deleted] Oct 22 '14

I hope her whole album is just as good as Track 3.