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Taylor Swift can't perform her own songs at the AMAs because she doesn't own them
- Thread starter Typhon
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I can't even sleep at night knowing that Taylor Swift is unable to have her cake and then also be eating that exact cake at the same time that she is having the cake.
Artists contribute nothing to society! They don't work hard and just exploit the hard working common Private Equity Firms who are just trying to survive man and make an honest living.
Lol what?? So know you have to own the company doing the exploiting?? Soliciting their labor is not exploitative??? Dude, really???
I'm only calling out the people who said Taylor Swift hasn't exploited anyone to become a millionaire which is bullshit.
My point isn't that Taylor Swift is evil, it's that I have little empathy for her. Yes, the music industry needs to change but at the end of the day she's complaining about a contract that made her a multi-millionaire.
She wanted to buy her masters fair and square but they told her they'd only sell to her if she committed to 10 years or something with them. When she said no they sold her stuff to someone who hates her and now is just fucking with her because they can.
She wanted to buy them and they fucked her instead
"Come on, Taylor Swift, you know what it is. You was in on the heist, you just don't like your cut."
According to this, any contracts signed by a minor is not legally valid and the minor can file a lawsuit to void the entire contract because they don't have the legal capacity to enter into a legally binding contract.
So Taylor Swift's contract was invalid between the time she was 15 until she turned 18:
So Taylor Swift's contract was invalid between the time she was 15 until she turned 18:
Being angry at artists being rich and not at rich producers being abusive is something I wish I could admire
Yes it is invalid until she turned 18, the article I linked to states a contract signed by a minor is invalid:
Pretty certain that the right owners you would heroically take a bullet for, are the machine
They need to void it first. When the article says that they are under no obligation to honour it just means they have an easy, no strings attached out. If the contract were actually invalid she could not be getting paid because there would be no actual at all.
It's possible to disagree with them and Taylor Swift at the same time, but if picking a team works for you than more power to you!
Well, if this is indeed a legal presumption, a court should rule that no one can sign a legal contract until they turn 18:
You can void it, but unless you do it's treated as valid. She'd have to return the money otherwise as if there were no contract she had no legal claim on it.
She's worth $400M. Save the tears for Ke$ha. This is a fight between millionaires.
Constantly playing the victom role to the general public will do that to you.
Your miniscule focus on Taylor Swift being rich over rich contract holders being abusive, was slightly missleading. So please forgive my inaptitude.
Millionaire vs millionaire. I'm also in the camp of letting them fight it out. Taylor Swift also has a legion of fans at her disposal which have already doxxed the record label.
The nerve to bring up Kesha when Swift literally paid for her legal fees and did more for artists rights than pretty much every other pop Megastar.
Ok? Doesn't mean I have any fucks to give about her rich people problems.
Don't see what that has to do with any contracts she signed but sure. Standing ovation.
Nothing wrong with it, it just makes it more obvious that use Kesha as a way to support shitty contracts.
Neither true nor something to be proud of.
It's like if Robert Johnson was still alive and he tried to get us to tweet at the devil to give him his soul back.
Some of these takes sure are... something. Like come this is obviously wrong how can you be okay what happened to her in any way? Her being rich doesn't mean it's not wrong.
How does one dox a record label, exactly? The label's information is already publically available.
I think they doxxed the guys behind it, at least as far as their private contact info goes. Again, I'm sure those guys are crying into their piles of cash right now.
I didn't read my student loan agreements, sign them, then expect to have the contract disappear because I don't want to owe student loans anymore.
Do student loans suck? Absolutely. Are they a predatory system that should be changed? Absolutely. But I signed them, and I live with the consequences everyday.
Maybe the 15 year old and an adult co-signer should fully comprehend the consequences of their actions before signing a life-altering contract?
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It's not about her being a woman. She got an offer that most artists could only dream of, they proposed a deal that would allow her to not only own her masters but every video and photo. From the contract that was posted the only thing that wasn't agreed upon was the number of years. Swift wanted 7, they wanted 10.
She walked away on good terms, but once they sold to Scooter she felt betrayed and started acting like a big baby.
She walked away on good terms, but once they sold to Scooter she felt betrayed and started acting like a big baby.
The deals she made catapulted her to over 300 million dollars. I haven't done the math, but I'm pretty sure that's the 1% of the 1%. I have musician friends who don't have health insurance, or are hobbled by student loan debt, who spend their days working hard jobs for low pay. It's impossible for me to drum up sympathy for Swift because the artistic integrity of her Netflix special is compromised. That's the type of consequences you may face when you sell out on a level that is almost unheard of in the history of human artistic endeavor. On the plus side, she was so well compensated for her art (and by Donald Trump's wealth redistribution) that her entire family will be able to survive climate change by building a fortified compound in the habitable zone.
This
It's not like her dad was already filthy rich, paid for a share in Big Machine and knew in advance that they would sell her songs to Kanye's manager.
Oh wait, he does.
As it stands, it's a fight between two filthy rich companies. It's weird to view Taylor as one girl against a big bad studio when the thing is, Taylor Swift is one huge company by itself. She isn't alone while making these decisions, even moreso in the last decade.
I can't believe the lack of humanity here, won't someone think of the rich pop star? Hopefully she can shake off all the haters
Thing is, if someone as big as Taylor Swift is getting fucked over, I don't even want to imagine what is happening to smaller, less popular artists.