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Film nerd with strong opinions. She/her. Go Frogs 🐸

[Certified Yapper @Melanieg18]

Me selling my Lolla ticket after they banned blankets and shade

[alex @dontblamealex]

You seem so comfortable to hang out with a racist homophobe for a girl so woke

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ by Taylor Swift becomes the first Disney song in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Taylor Swift has become the youngest woman in history to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

[Veronica 🪩 @harryisgoldd]

Me encanta que Taylor les arruine todo a los hombres, te amo Taylor Swift por siempre tu alma esta conectada a la mía.

[ESPN @espn]

"THE GAME IS NOT OVER ... The game is over." 😅

TCU TIPTOES ITS WAY TO A WIN IN THE VALERO ALAMO BOWL 🔥

[hannah ❤️‍🔥 @sippingaugust]

my mayor muslim
my bagels jewish
taylor swift courtside
knicks in five!!!!!

[Buzzing Pop @BuzzingPop]

Taylor Swift goes viral over her face card.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The Library of Congress has selected Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ to be added to the National Recording Registry for preservation.

The registry chooses recordings based on their “cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.”

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[Plus Music @plusmusicbr]

SURREAL! “folklore” de Taylor Swift se torna o primeiro disco da HISTÓRIA a atingir a marca de 300 semanas consecutivas no Top 100 da Billboard 200. São praticamente SEIS ANOS dentro da parada. Se isso não é sinônimo de sucesso, não sabemos mais o que é.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Taylor Swift to NYT on ‘reputation’ being “slept on” when it came out:

“I loved the ‘reputation’ album. I was like, ‘You guys say what you want. I know what I did, I love it. Go with God. Sorry. You can come around if you want. It’s OK if you don’t.’ And then 6 or 7 years later, people are like, ‘Oh my God, like, ‘…Ready For It?’’ People slept on that song.”

[Pop Base @PopBase]

2 years ago today, Taylor Swift released ‘The Tortured Poets Department.’

[Certified Yapper @Melanieg18]

Need to tell Charlie Oldman about seeing his dad in Tiptoes

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘THE WHITE LOTUS’ Season 4 follows hotel guests and employees during the Cannes Film Festival.

[Certified Yapper @Melanieg18]

This is the worst shit I’ve ever seen #bieberchella

[𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔫𝔶 @antpatsmusic]

for her

[Trixie Mattel™ @trixiemattel]

I surely do enjoy the music of Taylor Swift recently!

[A24 @A24]

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

[‏ؘ @helllojojo]

me after having a breakdown realizing it was never that serious

[Certified Yapper @Melanieg18]

I think all men should go to jail