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[illusionist 🕷️ @mentaylly_ill]

fantano fans will really gaslight you about his misogynistic tendencies when there is an 8 minute video of him saying slurs, dogging on social justice warriors, and calling liberal women with dyed hair pigs. we all know exactly what kind of man that is

[✒️ @n0ro__]

wine was willing to risk her job to be with lal, but wine wasn't willing to risk lal for their relationship. korn was already targeting lal and the sales team, and now has evidence that could have lal fired.

this is why wine not only rejects dating lal, but rejects lal entirely, ending everything they had.

for wine, it was better for lal to lose wine, than lal lose everything else but wine 🥹

[drew @drewgirlevil]

i try not to dwell on it as this place is a perfect medium for walking insecurities to live out their mean girl fantasies, but the way people talk about taylor swift bothers me as a woman. she’s never allowed to have feelings, except when it’s time to project their worst impulses

[ً @scltair]

free my girl sarah pidgeon

[✰Val🇬🇳🇳🇱🐝||🇵🇸 KILLYOURSELF FOR AFRICA @_DIIRTYDIANA]

How it feels to have a conversation when you have autism

[ً @scltair]

@taysdefender it isn’t even a record? 😭

[ً @scltair]

enemies with benefits best gl of all time me thinks

[ً @scltair]

i knew it, i knew you randomly being the best song ever

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time. Creating something for Jessie was a new challenge and also felt like second nature all at once. And being a @toystory kid from the age of 5 til now… is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and beyond.

Thank you to the brilliant Andrew Stanton for imagining me for this, all those years ago when you wrote this newest film. Thank you to the incomparable @RandyNewman or the gorgeous sonic tapestry of songs and scores you’ve meticulously woven over the years. You created the Toy Story musical world, and we are lucky to get to live in it.
By we, I mean myself and my pal @jackantonoff. We wrote this with so much adoration for these characters that made us laugh and helped us learn lessons and think outside the backyard all throughout our childhoods. “I Knew It, I Knew You” from Toy Story 5 is out everywhere now. 🤠🐴

https://t.co/2JaaQvxHjp

[ً @scltair]

can’t get over how perfect this song is for toy story

[ً @scltair]

this song is so toy story and so taylor, it’s actually perfect

[ً @scltair]

TS13 YOURE A COUNTRY ALBUM!!!

[willnights @willistortured1]

istg if i see "im a swiftie but, she ruined toy story, bring back max and shellback, jack is washed, this is better than anything on showgirl, she had the potential and messed it up...." imma be throwing hands

[ً @scltair]

tayannouncement on the 1st of june

[✩ CEL ✩ @moonlithoax]

insane

[ً @scltair]

bit the bullet and subscribed to youtube premium…

[maria 💌 @scarletaffairss]

taylor getting blamed for artists not being paid enough when she already fought for this cause and no one backed her up i feel like i’m going insane

[ivy ☁️ @cowboylikeivvy]

taylor never said that speculation on who the songs are about is inherently a bad thing, she said some corners take that to an extreme place so those corners had to generalize her statement to make it seem like it’s absurd for her to not like that ppl make powerpoint of her exes

[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.