Earlier this week, the Canadian iTunes chart was dominated by eight seconds of white noise, courtesy of Taylor Swift. That's right, with Taylor Swift fans (or Swifties, as we're told they are called) clamoring for her forthcoming 1989 album (which is set to drop on October 27), a track entitled "Track 3," which contained nothing but white noise, was uploaded to iTunes (for $1.29, mind you) on accident... and hit the top of the iTunes chart in Canada. We could go in on how simple-minded some fanbases can be, where an artist could literally sell an MP3 of them sneezing and have a hit, but Hunter Siegel actually did that one better...
See, the EDM game is full of thirst, especially when it comes to remixing. We can't tell you how many times we've seen "this song didn't need to be remixed" or "they couldn't wait a little before remixing this track? It just came out!" Hunter Siegel saw an opportunity and took it... by remixing eight seconds of white noise. Here's his comment on his new Taylor Swift bootleg:
"In #EDM whenever a new pop hit is made the race is on to get your bootleg together and hit those hypem charts hard. So I knew when Taylor Swift - Track 3 hit number 1 in Canada the pressure was on to get my bootleg together. I didn't have time to worry about the mix or overall aesthetic, I had to get my track OUT and some shitty art put together with my logo plastered over the original cover as soon as humanly possible."
#DarkPLUR, indeed.
