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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Taylor Swift isn&#8217;t on Spotify anymore, but here&#8217;s a playlist of replacement jams]]></title>
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							<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Taylor Swift pulled all of her songs from streaming services this week, telling Yahoo! she did it because &#8220;the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. I&#8217;m not willing to contribute my life&#8217;s work to an experiment [&#8230;]]]></summary>
			
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<p>Taylor Swift pulled all of her songs from streaming services this week, telling Yahoo! she did it because &#8220;the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. I&#8217;m not willing to contribute my life&#8217;s work to an experiment that I don&#8217;t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music. And I just don&#8217;t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.&#8221;</p>

<p>Swift is probably wrong about streaming&#8217;s future in the industry, but that doesn&#8217;t make it any less difficult to survive in a Swiftless streaming wasteland without her.</p>

<p>Here&#8217;s a playlist with one song that sounds like every song on Taylor Swift&#8217;s new album, <em>1989, </em>just in case you felt the need for a crude facsimile of America&#8217;s number one album. This playlist also might give you an idea of just how comfortably former country artist Swift now fits into the world of pop, as there are a lot of big stars and hit songs on here.</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;Hang with Me&#8221; </strong>by Robyn</p>

<p><em>1989</em> kicks off with the excessively poppy, dreamy &#8220;Welcome to New York.&#8221; Robyn&#8217;s &#8220;Hang with Me&#8221; has the same thumping bass and rising bridge.</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;400 Lux&#8221; </strong>by Lorde</p>

<p>Swift&#8217;s bestie and Grammy Award winner Lorde is a good holdover for Swift&#8217;s angsty &#8220;Blank Space.&#8221; Plus, &#8220;400 Lux&#8221; has a great groove to get you ready for the rest of this playlist and your Taylor-less life.</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;Lose Yourself to Dance&#8221; </strong>by Daft Punk (featuring Pharrell Williams)</p>

<p>Daft Punk doesn&#8217;t seem like an easy match for Swift&#8217;s pop sensibilities, but &#8220;Lose Yourself to Dance&#8221; has the same grooving guitar that works so well on her &#8220;Style.&#8221; Plus, Pharrell Williams&#8217;s voice is crooning and perfect on this track.</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;Rollercoaster</strong>&#8221; by Bleachers</p>

<p>If you love an emotional build that you could run a marathon to it, as featured &#8220;Out of the Woods,&#8221; &#8220;Rollercoaster&#8221; is a great replacement song to get you through this trying time.</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;Call Me Maybe&#8221; </strong> by Carly Rae Jepsen</p>

<p>&#8220;Call Me Maybe&#8221; is catchy bubblegum pop that uses the absolute height of Jepsen&#8217;s vocal range to give the song depth. Swift does the same thing on &#8220;All You Had to Do Was Stay.&#8221;</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;Happy&#8221; </strong> by Pharrell Williams</p>

<p>No song is quiet as carefree and happy as Pharrell Williams&#8217;s &#8220;Happy.&#8221; It feels like the song that &#8220;Shake it Off&#8221; is trying to be under its thin veil of anger</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;Falling&#8221; </strong>by Haim</p>

<p>Despite the intros to both of these songs sounding incredibly similar, the lyrical quality of Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Wish You Would&#8221; is just as demanding, snarky, and great as Haim&#8217;s &#8220;Falling.&#8221;</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;E.T.&#8221; </strong>by Katy Perry (feat. Kanye West)</p>

<p>Not only is Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Bad Blood&#8221; rumored to be about Katy Perry, but it also sounds an awful lot like Perry&#8217;s &#8220;E.T.&#8221; Listen to &#8220;You&#8217;re/so/hypnotizing,&#8221; and tell us it doesn&#8217;t sound like &#8220;did you/have to/do this.&#8221; You can&#8217;t deny it! (<em>Returns to marking up entire kitchen wall with yarn to expose hidden connections between Perry and Swift.</em>)</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;Young and Beautiful&#8221; </strong>by Lana Del Rey</p>

<p>The second half of <em>1989</em> gets emotional, and no one does sad girl like Lana Del Rey. Swift&#8217;s soft, delicate voice on &#8220;Wildest Dreams&#8221; is a distinct echo of Del Rey&#8217;s in &#8220;Young and Beautiful.&#8221;</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;Break Free&#8221; </strong>by Ariana Grande (feat. Zedd)</p>

<p>Ariana Grande has a higher drums to vocal ratio in &#8220;Break Free&#8221; than Swift has in &#8220;How You Get the Girl,&#8221; but the spirit of these two songs is the same: girl leaves boy, feels great, moves on.</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;Wildest Moments</strong>&#8221; by Jessie Ware</p>

<p>Jessie Ware&#8217;s new album is exactly what a good pop album should be: emotional, beautiful, and catchy as hell. &#8220;Wildest Moments&#8221; is this playlists&#8217; slow jam, meant to accompany your absent &#8220;This Love.&#8221; But Ware&#8217;s song is so strong you&#8217;ll likely add it to your rotation anyway.</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;Born to Die&#8221; </strong>by Lana Del Rey</p>

<p>With its whimsical backing music and angry lyrics, &#8220;I Know Places&#8221; is replaced by another Lana Del Rey gem. &#8220;Baby/ I know places we won&#8217;t be found,&#8221; has the same angry, sleepy vocals on offer on &#8220;Born to Die.&#8221;</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;I Blame Myself&#8221; </strong>by Sky Ferreira</p>

<p>&#8220;I Blame Myself&#8221; starts out much more upbeat than Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Clean,&#8221; but by the time the chorus hits, the similarities are remarkable &mdash; the same twinkling instrumentals and ah-ing in the background.</p>

<p><strong>&#8220;Lights&#8221; </strong>by Ellie Goulding</p>

<p>You can probably make it without replacements for two of <em>1989</em>&#8216;s bonus songs, &#8220;Wonderland&#8221; and &#8220;You R In Love,&#8221; but you&#8217;ll need one for the third bonus track, &#8220;New Romantics.&#8221; It&#8217;s a great song, and it deserves to be the album&#8217;s closer &mdash; just like &#8220;Lights&#8221; is a perfect closer for this replacement playlist.</p>

<p><em>Listen to this week&#8217;s playlist here:</em></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="380" width="300" src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:voxdotcom:playlist:68KTzunEdxp4WJuNHlRmGf"></iframe></p>
<p><em>Playlist created by Scott Kellum and the Vox music slack room</em></p>
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