Posted on 06/25/2024 8:57:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
There is a new documentary called “Taylor Swift Vs. Scooter Braun: Bad Blood” which covers the infamous feud between Taylor Swift and super-manager Scooter Braun. Braun owns Ithaca Holdings, the company that bought the record label Taylor Swift first signed with, including her albums.
The documentary spans events from June of 2019, when Braun’s company acquired Big Machine Label Group, the record label Swift was signed to for the first 13 years of her career. That acquisition included the rights to her first six albums, from her self-titled debut to “Reputation,” which was released in 2017.
The documentary is divided into two episodes. Episode one is Swift’s version, which is just her being obnoxious. It is Swift and all of her friends and allies suggesting that she is a victimized feminist, that she’s fighting “The Man,” and “Oh, my goodness, how everyone is so mean to Taylor Swift — and Scooter Braun is mean, mean man — he’s super mean.” She’s much more famous and rich because of his involvement, but she’s the victim.
You often see this in celebrity culture: people who are not victims, who make lots of money from particular companies and then claim victimhood. It’s not rare to see Taylor Swift do this sort of thing. And here she is, again, doing that sort of thing. That’s episode one.
Then, in episode two, Scooter Braun shares his side of the story. That’s the side where they explain what happened legally in fairly meticulous detail. It’s the side where everyone recognizes he bought a company and, along with that company, he bought her records and then she complained about it. A lot.
As you might guess, HBO finishes by saying, ”Who can tell? Who knows?” Then the documentary points out that Swift is a very important cultural and musical figure.
Who cares? That’s not the issue. Will she be an important cultural figure in 20 years? I doubt it. In 100 years? No.
But that’s irrelevant to the question at play here. The question is whether she’s kind of a bad person, because it turns out that people who routinely violate their contracts and then claim victimhood are not nice people. And that’s Taylor Swift. She’s used her platform in order to attack Scooter Braun over and over and over.
For example, she used her platform at awards acceptance speeches to criticize Big Machine and Scooter Braun. At her Grammy acceptance speech, she announced her “Tortured Poets Department” album. As I said after listening to that album, my only question about the “Tortured Poets Department” is where do they torture the poets and how do I join?
In any case, the documentary shows her being manipulative and weaponizing her fans to attack Scooter Braun, and she won’t call them off even after Braun releases the threats on his family’s life. And of course, she has lots of feuds with lots of other people because she’s not a particularly nice person.
So here’s the thing. The general public doesn’t tend to understand business deals. They don’t tend to understand legal issues. This is why you hire a lawyer, because if you’re not a lawyer, you don’t understand how legal things work, you don’t understand what provisions do.
You sign contracts with provisions in case something bad happens. And then, when the bad thing happens, the contract governs.
But for the general public — oh, my goodness, a bad thing happened. Now they think they have to figure out who’s right and who’s wrong.
No, they don’t. That was the purpose of the contract in the first place.
As it turns out, Taylor Swift’s actions — lying to her fans, lying to the public, rerecording all the old songs and releasing them — it all gets papered over with this “I’m a Feminist Icon” nonsense, which is a great “Get-out-of-Jail Free” card for being a cheat in business.
That’s Taylor Swift’s shtick. And don’t worry, she’ll continue the shtick as long as people are willing to humor her nonsense.
It’s a lucrative business, pretending to be a 16-year-old victimized feminist while making billions of dollars by violating your contracts.
(Hats Off To Larry, Little Town Flirt...)
Isn’t TS the original model for the blow up doll ?
Maybe the flat chested version...
Taylor Swift is a big fake!
Her “music” is not any good at all, and she has no basis for being in the political arena!!
Actually, that is NOT true.
Rick Beato (YouTube Channel) exposed her as a fake who has other songwriters write her simplistic songs and she takes credit.
Additionally, Joni Mitchell's songs has quite complex chords and she recruited top jazz musicians to play her music in the studio recordings and live concerts.
Further, Joni's lyric's are waaaay beyond TS in substance & complexity.
Only a low IQ idiot would even mention TS in the same sentence as Joni Mitchell
“The reason for this person’s popularity still escapes me...”
I spent a bit of time wading through her song catalog to get some education. I’ve a musician and composer although I am a bit of dinosaur.
But I understand how Madonna got where she is. Madonna writes catchy music AND lyrics and came up a new style that is her and recognizable. So did Michael Jackson. Singer/musician/composer. Whether one likes their sort of thing or not there is no denying they were huge global successes and lasted for a long time - not flashes in the pan.
Taylor builds on Indie music with simple mediocre songs and her contribution seems to be focused on the lyrics and then collaborates with musicians to co-write lots of songs. Taylor seems to network well and collaborates remotely a lot. She excels at getting lots of “lowest common denominator” stuff out there. Not much to criticize as it is blended homogenized swill that people like. She is filthy rich at a young age.
Taylor is a good singer and youngsters like her so she is a fad now. And kids are like sheep. Whatever is the “thing” they jump on board ... until the next shiny object comes along I suppose.
I just don’t find her singing at all interesting. She sounds like lots of other people out there.
She just had her private jet spray painted by climate cult followers.
“Only a low IQ idiot would even mention TS in the same sentence as Joni Mitchell”
People with low IQs have typically resort to name calling when the can not successfully argue their verbal point.
If the shoe fits...
A very eloquent analysis. Well said.
LOL....you conveniently ignored my points based on factual reality:
1. TS is a fraud who records low IQ “songs”.
2. Joni Mitchell is waaaaay beyond TS in the complexity of her songwriting - from her chord structure & lyrical composition to requiring jazz musicians with the chops to read & play her advanced musical chords.
Nice try from a typical TS “low IQ-er”
We used to call TS-like songs “Bubble gum music” because it’s so simple...even a caveman could write it.
I wouldn’t classify Mitchell as pop.
Swift could have put together an investment group and bought Big Machine herself, she knew it was for sale, but she didn’t.
Rick Beato exposed TS as a low IQ fraud who uses many, many other songwriters
“NYT Says Taylor Swift Is Bigger Than The Beatles!? WTF”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxrwjJHXPlQ
Like that Styles guy/thing.
Teenie bopper girls go nuts.
EMI originally owned all the of the early Beatles Catalog material and was sold at one point to an Investor names Robert Holmes a Court.
Now Paul McCartney wanted to buy the rights back but Michael Jackson beat him to it and he paid about $43 Million for the catalog which also included a lot of other music rights. Then Jackson made a deal with Sony and sold half, In any event the catalog ended up being worth almost $1 Billion Dollars and Paul hated Jackson for him buying it from under him. At the time Paul was not including his ex-band mates in the deal.
There was no need to nasty about it. You drive more people away .
IIRC-—THEY SPRAYED THE WRONG PLANE.
Clearly, speaking the truth triggers the Karens & snowflakes.
Good to know they always out themselves.
You are a useless, nasty troll.
Opinions aren’t facts. Differences in opinion doesn’t need sparky personal attacks.
I report abuse with you a lot.
Cease posting to me.
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