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• eyes full of stars • she/her • Capricorn sun • Scorpio rising • Pisces moon

[M is Stopping The Wedding🪞🦢🍸🛸💐🦷🍅🍥🪽🇮🇪 @history0fM]

Shit like this brings the movement down, everyone's a feminist until there is a misoginisyic misinformation campaign against Taylor Swift around...

[gigi @taybelovedxo]

people were deadass saying taylor was a narcissist who wanted to make herself the center of attention bc she got married at msg and yet we still haven’t even seen her dress

[chloe or SAM 🇵🇸 @glxtchpovs]

people spreading misinformation and being misogynistic to taylor in general and when called out we’re freaks for “riding so hard for a billionaire” without understanding the implications of normalising misinformation in general

[s a m🌙 @shamsgoob]

@everashowgirl @ShowGirlEm Just to add to this, all her merch is handled through UMG as part of her contract. So it’s not even something she’s directly in control of.

[s a m🌙 @shamsgoob]

@imadr4gon @Estouemtodos @ChrisH54127222 @asawanizorov3 @vigiIanteshlt Okay and? You said she was a wife to maga. She isn’t. You can’t move the goalpost after saying something blatantly untrue and then being corrected. Travis has shown time and time again that he is liberal, as has Taylor.

[J🐍��️‍🔥 @LaxusTS]

Leftist having meltdowns on twitter about a democrat pop star's wedding while this happens on their streets lol

[kath 💍 @thegretwar]

JUST&T MARRIED

[shannon (🪩) @soitssgoes]

how it feels to stream taylor swift’s love songs on taylor swift’s wedding day

[Showgirl Era⸆⸉ ❤️‍🔥 @countedmiless13]

Travis Kelce is gonna become Travis Swift within the next 72 hours!

[lauren ❤️‍🔥🏒 @folklaurenx]

NO YOU CANT COME TO THE WEDDING!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ray Mond @AmberRayz]

when I click on "confirm payment" and they take the money

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Nothing to see here.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Dudes worse than Pelosi

[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.

[ivi🦊🍂 is Orange Juice’s #1 Stan🍊 @cowboylikeivi_]

every year i’m terrorized by Aaron Dessner one way or another

[Bark @barkmeta]

waking up for work at 6am so the government can spend $2M on crab legs with my taxes

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I feel like it should be bigger news that Trump is now openly considering a military draft. Young men haven't been called up for a draft since 1972. Not during the Gulf War. Not during Iraq or Afghanistan. He received five draft deferments but is now open to drafting your kids.