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Because it was inevitable that someone would get his take on the matter, Garth Brooks has weighed in on the Taylor Swift vs. Spotify debate. But he's also taking aim at a different digital giant: YouTube.

"Don't forget who's creating the music," he said during an appearance Monday on Access Hollywood. "And I'm telling you, the devil—nice people—YouTube! Oh my gosh. They claim they pay people, [but] they're not paying anything either. People get millions and millions and millions and millions of views, and [the songwriters] don't get squat. Trust me. Songwriters are hurting. So, I applaud Miss Taylor and I applaud everyone for standing up for the songwriters, because without them, music is nothing."

Brooks also recalled a "sweet meeting" with YouTube in which he learned there was essentially nothing he could do about the 139,000 user-uploaded videos of his music.

"They were all fired up," he claimed. "They were the sweetest—and they're all, like, 12 ... So young! I said, 'I've just got the first question: How do you get out?' Silence. You don't."

Brooks' appropriately titled comeback album, Man Against Machine, is out now, but you won't find it on iTunes or Spotify.