Taylor Swift slams Spotify and calls it a 'startup with no cash flow'

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(Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Zendaya, Martha Hunt, Taylor Swift, Lily Aldridge, Hailee Steinfeld, and Ellen Pompeo at the Billboard Music Awards in May.

Taylor Swift is on the cover of Vanity Fair's September issue, and in the magazine she discusses the letter she wrote to Apple about its decision not to pay artists during Apple Music's trial period.

Swift's letter caused Apple to promptly change its mind and compensate the artists. But last summer when Swift pulled her music from Spotify and voiced concerns about the way Spotify compensated artists, the company largely ignored her.

Swift told Vanity Fair it was "ironic" that Spotify, which isn't profitable, ignored her while Apple listened.

"Apple treated me like I was a voice of a creative community that they actually cared about," she said. "And I found it really ironic that the multibillion-dollar company reacted to criticism with humility, and the startup with no cash flow reacted to criticism like a corporate machine."

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