Do you like Taylor Swift?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only reason she was able to buy back her masters is because she greatly devalued them by re-recording Taylor’s version which her fans overwhelmingly chose to download and stream making the masters a lot less valuable - and clearly she made a crap ton of money with the most profitable and biggest global tour ever.

It’s not a scam and no one is holding a gun to people’s head, forcing them to buy albums.

Imagine believing any of this. Imagine believing the mafia controlled music industry would ever actually allow this usurping. Y'all are gullible as hell and can’t admit you’ve been duped.

[Anonymous]

I think she was foolish to have lost control of them in the first place. *shrugs*

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it was all fake and I think Scooter was in on it. A ruse to get her gullible fans to re-buy all of her old albums.

There is no way in hell you can just re-record old songs and make money off them when someone else owns the rights.

Fake theater to scam people.

Sometimes the level of stupidity on this site is staggering.

So much wrong but said with such conviction. Almost impressive.

DP but I just hate billionaires who are taking over with a mediocre product. Taylor happens to be one of them.

Her fans were kind of fleeced over this whole thing. She and her Dad are the very business upper class people they are wanting you to hate. They bill themselves as little fish taking over the music industry, but is a financial bro taking over the music industry really something to get excited about? He just knew to use his daughter as a front woman.

Exactly. I've met her father before...and I was not impressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only reason she was able to buy back her masters is because she greatly devalued them by re-recording Taylor’s version which her fans overwhelmingly chose to download and stream making the masters a lot less valuable - and clearly she made a crap ton of money with the most profitable and biggest global tour ever.

It’s not a scam and no one is holding a gun to people’s head, forcing them to buy albums.

I read SB paid $330M for Big Machine records, and TS’s masters were worth $140M of that deal. SB sold them for $300M to someone else. TS supposedly paid $360M to get them back. So clearly they were still worth something.

SB was the primary person who made out here.

[Anonymous]

So the completely talentless Scott Samuel "Scooter" Braun skims off hundreds of millions of dollars from her music and talent for NOTHING?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how her shills show up to bury the fact this was a scam on her fans. Cult leader cooked up a shameless scam to get you saps to re buy her songs and albums you already all owned and feel like you were supporting her.

Are you ok? Not owning masters is very much a thing in the industry, which is now changing. Taylor’s music is very personal to her - she writes it all, about her life, and she started when she was 14 or 15. She obviously viewed her masters as important as her many journals. These aren’t songs written by professional songwriters for her to sing. I get why she wanted ownership.

She was never offered outright ownership. She had to make a deal to give future albums in exchange. She was smart to walk away. Kelly Clarkson is the person who told her she should just re-record them.

From there, she was super clear with her fans the whole time. “I’m doing this for me, so I own my music.” Fans chose to engage. It wasn’t a sneaky plot. It was all out there. Some didn’t like the re-records, and still listened to the older ones. Some prefer the re-records. I am a newer fan and I have never paid for a TS album. The re-records did bring new life to old music, which allowed her to do the eras tour, which fans LOVED. She credits that tour, in this week’s announcement, for her financial ability to buy back her masters.

Anyways… I’m excited for her and hope this changes new artist contracts in the future

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting how her shills show up to bury the fact this was a scam on her fans. Cult leader cooked up a shameless scam to get you saps to re buy her songs and albums you already all owned and feel like you were supporting her.

Are you ok? Not owning masters is very much a thing in the industry, which is now changing. Taylor’s music is very personal to her - she writes it all, about her life, and she started when she was 14 or 15. She obviously viewed her masters as important as her many journals. These aren’t songs written by professional songwriters for her to sing. I get why she wanted ownership.

She was never offered outright ownership. She had to make a deal to give future albums in exchange. She was smart to walk away. Kelly Clarkson is the person who told her she should just re-record them.

From there, she was super clear with her fans the whole time. “I’m doing this for me, so I own my music.” Fans chose to engage. It wasn’t a sneaky plot. It was all out there. Some didn’t like the re-records, and still listened to the older ones. Some prefer the re-records. I am a newer fan and I have never paid for a TS album. The re-records did bring new life to old music, which allowed her to do the eras tour, which fans LOVED. She credits that tour, in this week’s announcement, for her financial ability to buy back her masters.

Anyways… I’m excited for her and hope this changes new artist contracts in the future

I'm just fine. It's her fans who can't see they've been played like marks. But maybe I'm talking to an AI bot. Who knows anymore.

[Anonymous]

Wow, what a fairy tale ending. You couldn't have scripted it any better. Oh, wait.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason she was able to buy back her masters is because she greatly devalued them by re-recording Taylor’s version which her fans overwhelmingly chose to download and stream making the masters a lot less valuable - and clearly she made a crap ton of money with the most profitable and biggest global tour ever.

It’s not a scam and no one is holding a gun to people’s head, forcing them to buy albums.

Imagine believing any of this. Imagine believing the mafia controlled music industry would ever actually allow this usurping. Y'all are gullible as hell and can’t admit you’ve been duped.

Give me a break please tell us what exactly you think happened?

Imagine hating an artist and thinking she’s duping people and yet going to an anonymous website and angrily typing out posts about it.

Taylor Swift lives free in so many of your heads… It’s hilarious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason she was able to buy back her masters is because she greatly devalued them by re-recording Taylor’s version which her fans overwhelmingly chose to download and stream making the masters a lot less valuable - and clearly she made a crap ton of money with the most profitable and biggest global tour ever.

It’s not a scam and no one is holding a gun to people’s head, forcing them to buy albums.

Imagine believing any of this. Imagine believing the mafia controlled music industry would ever actually allow this usurping. Y'all are gullible as hell and can’t admit you’ve been duped.

Imagine being angry that someone’s making money off their own creations and not letting some pasty talentless industry executives make the bulk of the money off your hard work and talent.

[Anonymous]

Not a fan of her music, but happy for her that it's back under her control.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only reason she was able to buy back her masters is because she greatly devalued them by re-recording Taylor’s version which her fans overwhelmingly chose to download and stream making the masters a lot less valuable - and clearly she made a crap ton of money with the most profitable and biggest global tour ever.

It’s not a scam and no one is holding a gun to people’s head, forcing them to buy albums.

Imagine believing any of this. Imagine believing the mafia controlled music industry would ever actually allow this usurping. Y'all are gullible as hell and can’t admit you’ve been duped.

Give me a break please tell us what exactly you think happened?

Imagine hating an artist and thinking she’s duping people and yet going to an anonymous website and angrily typing out posts about it.

Taylor Swift lives free in so many of your heads… It’s hilarious.

That is what pop culture does. It is what businesses do. It is the point of commercials- to live “rent free in our heads” so we buy more crap.

At least I’m fighting back against the brainwashing. Her fans seem to give into it so much they become defenders of her to an extreme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like some of her music and respect her as a business person, but I don't understand her taste in men. At all.

At least most of them result in good songs (those angsty art school boys are great muses). I CANNOT imagine a single good song about Travis.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I like some of her music and respect her as a business person, but I don't understand her taste in men. At all.

At least most of them result in good songs (those angsty art school boys are great muses). I CANNOT imagine a single good song about Travis.

Dumb question I know, but is there like an unofficial list of who inspired every TS song?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I like some of her music and respect her as a business person, but I don't understand her taste in men. At all.

At least most of them result in good songs (those angsty art school boys are great muses). I CANNOT imagine a single good song about Travis.

Dumb question I know, but is there like an unofficial list of who inspired every TS song?

We should compile one. I'll start: " Dear John" is about John Mayer.