If there was ever any doubt that Taylor Swift is the power-wielding queen of everything and everybody, then that doubt should be squashed now.
With the ease of posting a letter on Tumblr, Swift was able to get Apple to change its mind on the way it pays artists. Apple originally had planned to provide a free three-month trial of its music-streaming app, Apple Music, but was unwilling to pay artists during that time period. Swift, fighting for the rights of smaller artists, said she would be withholding her album, “1989,” from the app. She reiterated that the letter was not about her, but the new artist or band who won’t be paid for their success.
“But I say to Apple with all due respect, it’s not too late to change this policy and change the minds of those in the music industry who will be deeply and gravely affected by this,” she wrote. “We don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.”
Within 24 hours, Apple changed its tune. Damn, girl. I like your ballsy-ness. In fact, I think that your letter-writing powers could be put to even better use.
Here are seven things I’d like to see Taylor Swift change:
1. Can you please ask Apple to let us delete the health app (or any other permanent app) off our phones? I like doughnuts. I don’t like health.
2. Skittles changed the flavor of its green skittle from lime to green apple. Yeah, can you figure that one out? Green apple is GARBAGE.
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3. Channel your inner ’90s kid and let’s bring back the snacks we loved. Dunkaroos. Surge soda. Wonder Ball. Squeezeit. Rice Krispies Treats cereal.
4. A summary of all Nicholas Sparks’ books: Two attractive white people in the South fall in love and then one of them dies and everybody is sad. Make it stop. Take his pen away.
5. Ask ABC to bring back “Trophy Wife.” I cannot fathom why they would cancel a show that good but still allow Shonda Rhimes to murder the souls of her fan base on a weekly basis.
6. Netflix. “The Golden Girls.” Do I need to say anything else? No, I don’t.
7. Pizza is one of the greatest foods ever. Pizza Hut went ahead and ruined it by sticking hot dogs in the crust. I need you to tell them to cut that the [bleep] out. No one needs that kind of negativity in their life.
Sara Amato is a RedEye designer, and if she wielded any power, she would accomplish all of these things and so much more.