cassandra

“Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood…”

[cassandra @Stan13Ivy]

“Actions speak louder than words, and patterns speak louder than actions” -knowledge overheard the other day

[Jessy_szn💕 @Astro_jessie]

Me sensing an opportunity to randomly sing a song mid conversation based off words you said

[Aly&AJ Shady Facts @SITINHELLWITHU_]

Guy on TikTok told me to send him Taylor lyrics to prove she’s a deep writer and I sent him a Joni Mitchell lyric and he said “yeah this is only deep if you’re 15” and when I told him it was Joni Mitchell he blocked me

[cassandra @Stan13Ivy]

@Richardszni @Favwontmiss This!

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

society thinks adhd is a hyper 8 year old boy who can't sit still in class. adhd is a 34 year old woman who hasn't opened her mail in 6 weeks, eats the same lunch every day, and cried in target last thursday because they moved the seasonal aisle.

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

Being AuDHD means I may forget my keys, but I will remember the exact micro-shift in your energy from April 2024.

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

Cult leader Jim Jones used to fake assassination attempts so that his cult would worship him harder. Just thought I’d share that history with everyone

[homoyuri @crosshairlvr]

finding out the artemis ii astronauts talked with poets and studied poetry so they knew how to properly convey what they were seeing in words and saying that the arts played a huge role in their time in space. oh my god

[𝓐𝔂𝓸✯ @shefwayo]

me holding my opinion after realizing I cannot fix this person's entire educational history in just one conversation.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

In news that will get very little coverage, Mariska Hargitay's "End the Backlog Campaign" achieves rape kit reform in ALL 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico.

It's women who are going to save us. Thank you Mariska Hargitay.

[shami @leshaami]

Hi, so the woman who carried and gave birth to me was 13 years old, celebrated her 14th birthday only days before I was born. I should’ve been aborted. It’s really terrible that she was made to carry and birth a baby while she was a child herself.

Am I happy to be alive? Yes. Absolutely. Very happy to be here. Would I be mad had I been aborted? No, I wouldn’t exist, I wouldn’t feel anything. I shouldn’t exist. She was a child. The lives of girls/women are more valuable than fetuses.

[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.

[ver. @cryeyesviolet_]

i’ll forever be gagged by the difference in how taylor was singing the prophecy on the album and when she sang it on eras tour later, you can hear the happiness in her voice and see a smile on her face, the prophecy was fulfilled

[ATHEER 𝟏𝟑⸆⸉𝜗𝜚☁️ @Ath28TS]

EVEN IF I DIEEE SCREAMINGGGG ANDD I HOPE YOUU HEAR ITTTTT

[cassandra @Stan13Ivy]

@cmclymer Caro is great! Love her podcast Diabolical Lies! Can’t wait to read the book and see the movie!

[bri @taycentered]

i could never hate taylor swift because she willingly chose to describe having a secret rendezvous with someone in a cemetery as meeting them where the spirit meets the bones in a faith forgotten land

[𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖞❤️‍🔥 @Charlygotyou]

ppl w adhd do shit like procrastinate for 3 months straight & then in one 24-hr day knock out 3 months of tasks. you either know this life or you don’t lol.

[cassandra @Stan13Ivy]

@MatthewHill_FF 🎈

[bia⸆⸉ | #1 florida!!! stan ☁️ @staybiautiful]

peter by taylor swift

[. @emmasarchivee]

honestly who the FUCK writes like this

[Tyler ⸆⸉ ☁️ @midnight_Tyler_]

yup exactly