Taylor Swift Uses American Music Awards Acceptance Speech To Defend The Album

It was not your typical acceptance speech from music's latest carefully scripted darling at last night's American Music Awards. Taylor Swift chose to use part of her precious podium time to defend the album and the value of music:

"By going out and investing in music and albums you're saying you beleive in the same things I believe in – that music is valuable, and that music should be consumed as albums, and that albums should be consumed as art and appreciated."

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