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# Taylor Swift Uses American Music Awards Acceptance Speech To Defend The Album
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/taylor-swift-uses-american-music-awards-acceptance-speech-to-defend-the-album/
- Published: 2014-11-24T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-11-24T10:00:00.000Z
- Description: 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. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/11/taylor-swift-uses-american-music-awards-acceptance-spe
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Conventions & Awards, Music Business, American Broadcasting Company, American Music Award, Ariana Grande, Billboard charts, boy band, Dick Clark, music industry, One Direction, Spotify, Taylor Swift, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:38

[![taylor](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c70e55ba970b-100wi "taylor")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c70e55ba970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

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:

[![AMA logo](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c70e55d8970b-150wi "AMA logo")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c70e55d8970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)"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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