What makes musicians sound more greedy or unreasonable than most is the generally passive attitude towards the innovation necessary to sustain their own income.

What makes musicians sound more greedy or unreasonable than most is the generally passive attitude towards the innovation necessary to sustain their own income. They expect Apple, Spotify, Pandora etcetera to take all the risk (including the major risk of being unilaterally torpedoed by those same artists), do all the upfront investment and then whine about not getting a big enough piece of the cake. Taylor Swift is being an outlier here in the respectful way in which she communicates. And she knows it, that's why she chooses her words very carefully. Most of these artist just bitch and whine about their percentage, ignoring the fact that, with antiquated copyright laws firmly on the side of the music industry, technology firms are taking quite insane risk in their attempts to innovate the way music connects to the listeners. If they hadn't, sales of music would have totally flatlined by now and those artist would be way worse off.