Taylor Swift Vows To Keep Her Album ‘1989’ Off Apple Music

Taylor Swift's got bad blood with Apple.

The pop star vowed to keep her multiplatinum-selling album "1989" — which sold 1.3 million copies in its first week of sales — off Apple Music, the company's new streaming service, due to artists not being paid during the service's three-month trial period.

"I'm not sure you know that Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers or artists for those three months," Swift wrote on her Tumblr page Sunday. "I find it to be shocking, disappointing and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company."

While the "Bad Blood" singer did take a moment to boast about the company "because Apple has been and will continue to be one of my best partners in selling music and creating ways for me to connect with my fans," she still took a stance against their streaming service's free trial period.

"This is not about me. Thankfully I am on my fifth album and can support myself, my band, crew, and entire management team by playing live shows," she wrote.

"This is about the new artist or band that has just released their first single and will not be paid for its success. This is about the young songwriter who just got his or her first cut and thought that the royalties from that would get them out of debt. This is about the producer who works tirelessly to innovate and create, just like the innovators and creators at Apple are pioneering in their field … but will not get paid for a quarter of a year's worth of plays on his or her songs," Swift continued.

The 25-year-old international superstar seemed to realize how the letter may appear to some and, again, clarified it wasn't about her personally getting a paycheck from Apple, but about the larger issue: artists being paid for their craft.

"These are not the complaints of a spoiled, petulant child," she wrote. "These are the echoed sentiments of every artist, writer and producer in my social circles who are afraid to speak up publicly because we admire and respect Apple so much. We simply do not respect their particular call."

Swift added, "Three months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing."

This isn't the first time the "Blank Space" singer decided to keep her music off a streaming service. In 2014, Swift decided to pull all her music from Spotify.

"I think there should be an inherent value placed on art," she told Time magazine in November. "I didn't see that happening, perception-wise when I put my music on Spotify."

She added how she simply "didn't like the way it felt."

Now, she's reiterating those feelings to Apple.

"We don't ask you for free iPhones," she wrote on Tumblr. "Please don't ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation."

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