Taylor Swift's latest venture includes more writing...but this time for publication! The country songstress is now a Wall Street Journal columnist, and in her piece, "For Taylor Swift, the future of music is a Love Story," she explains how the music industry is still thriving, and like a relationship, needs to be worked on to stay alive.

"In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace," she writes.

"Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently."

She also compares the artist/fan relationship to that of an intimate relationship, as hits can be "flings," songs that mark milestones, and that artist that is "the one."

"Some music is just for fun, a passing fling (the ones they dance to at clubs and parties for a month while the song is a huge radio hit, that they will soon forget they ever danced to)," Swift explains.

"Some songs and albums represent seasons of our lives, like relationships that we hold dear in our memories but had their time and place in the past."

"However, some artists will be like finding "the one." We will cherish every album they put out until they retire and we will play their music for our children and grandchildren," she continued.

"As an artist, this is the dream bond we hope to establish with our fans. I think the future still holds the possibility for this kind of bond, the one my father has with the Beach Boys and the one my mother has with Carly Simon."

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