Music greyed out in iTunes

I got a brand new iPhone 5s (iOS 8) yesterday. I want to transfer my music to it using iTunes (11.4.0.18) on Windows 7 (64 bit). So what I did was : on the Music page of the iPhone in iTunes, I checked "Sync Music". I then checked "Selected playlists, albums, artists, genres". I then selected a bunch of artists (at the top it says 915 songs). I then click sync. The result: no music on the iPhone, and under the Music section on iTunes, all the artists I selected is there, but all the songs are greyed out with a grey circle next to them. I googled this problem. I tried several things, including deleting everything in the "purchased" folder in the raw items on the phone, using iFunbox. That didn't work. I have tried to "Manually manage music", then delete all the greyed out songs on the iPhone, then sync. Then select the music i want and sync again. No luck.
I cannot understand how it can be this difficult to get music on my phone. Any ideas ?

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