Shane

Thirst traps, politics, random thought, Taylor MF’ing Swift

[Shane @shanedell2]

Soooo @iamcardib was right AGAIN

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

BIA reposts The White House’s video featuring her song “WE ON GO.”

[Shane @shanedell2]

He knows his supporters are fuckin stupid.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Trump on the reflecting pool: "If you had a knife, you can't even cut it."

Also, Trump on the reflecting pool: "They cut it."

[Shane @shanedell2]

They are really going to play in Joey’s face this while bracket aren’t they… #allstars11

[Shane @shanedell2]

@RepNancyMace Girl clearly no one cares what you have to say

[Shane @shanedell2]

@RepNancyMace Mace stays losing 🤣🤣🤣

[Shane @shanedell2]

@NancyMace HAHAHA YOU’RE A LOSER!!

[Shane @shanedell2]

Salina has been fake to aura all season and then just expects points handed to her. Girl PLEASE 🙄🙄 #AllStars11

[Shane @shanedell2]

@tedcruz And we wish you weren’t a fuckin bitch. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Shane @shanedell2]

Tell us you’ve never made a girl orgasm without telling us… bro I’m gay and I’ve made a girl orgasm. 🤣🤣

[ryan 🤿 @scubaryan_]

Clavicular says he doesn’t think it’s important for a woman to have an org*sm because there isn’t a good “Return on Investment” 💀

“it’s not important… the amount of extra effort that’s required to do that is just not gonna have much ROI…”

[Shane @shanedell2]

@scubaryan_ This kid is pathetic

[Shane @shanedell2]

@bexi_boo_xox @suttonsroller When did I say she wasn’t. If they had said that to Erika back then it would have been justified as well.

[Shane @shanedell2]

@fatalattracion @suttonsroller Exactly. And I would have had no problem with them being upset with her and saying the same thing to her. Sticking by your friend is great but if they are being rude and awful to you there is no problem with saying you need to take a step back.

[Shane @shanedell2]

@Dustin_Cone Because she has a problem with everyone except 2 and doesn’t shut the fuck up

[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.

[Shane @shanedell2]

Big ass baby throwing a tantrum

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump's FCC is moving to review and potentially revoke Disney and ABC's broadcast licenses.

This comes as Trump demands ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel for a joke he made on his late-night show.

[Shane @shanedell2]

This administration is such a fucking joke

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

🚨JUST IN: Kid Rock addresses The Pentagon on the Strait of Hormuz.

[Shane @shanedell2]

@ScottPresler Look at this nursing home

[Shane @shanedell2]

BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The Onion has successfully acquired Alex Jones’ ‘Infowars’ after 17 months of legal battles and has debuted its new logo.

It will be turned into a parody of itself, with the support of the Sandy Hook families.

(https://t.co/U0k83hA62K)

[Shane @shanedell2]

@queensofbravo COME ON VIRGINIA💙