I already posted this in response to another person, but I agree.

She’s lived in a bubble sine she was a teenager. She never had anything close to appropriate social interactions throughout most of her life. And she’s directing her anger at real people who caused her real harm. Cut the gal some slack.

Exactly what made me love Monica Lewinsky. Barbara Walters tried to shame her on TV like that, and Monica stood her ground.

(at the time, Gyllenhaal was 10 years her senior).

(at the time, Gyllenhaal was 10 years her senior).

they’re all just taking those “word clouds” from any Fox News broadcast and throwing the biggest clouds at the wall...”woke”, “leftists”, “CRT” for good measure, “cancel culture.” If you look at their bullshit less as “genuine” and more as “shitty trolls trolling”, it makes a lot more sense, and makes it easier to…

“Cancel culture” made a 17 year old secure a long rifle, cross state lines, and shoot other people in public.

This feels more like some misogyny at play. “The little girl won’t fight us!” The back catalog was a dead asset the minute Taylor said she was going to re-record them. The leverage she gained with the streaming services might have them promoting her new versions over the originals. That’s truly going to hit the bottom…

She gets a lot of grief from the kinds of people who can’t seem to fathom the notion of celebrities (or people in general) not being perfect, but Taylor Swift is a god-damned beast and I’m here for it. 

I doubt she had much of a choice if she wanted a major label contract. This arrangement is not at all uncommon, The Beatles being the most famous example. But often once an artist hits it huge and has money of their own, if the label wants to sell then they sell it to that artist. Stiff-arming Swift was the original…

I work in finance and deal with private equity groups all the time. The fact that one would make a purchase of this magnitude without knowing conclusively that she wouldn’t re-record the same damn songs is mind-boggling. The amount of due diligence involved in selling a company to a private equity group is usually…

I have no feelings about Swift either way, but I loved the story from Imogen Heap (I think) about working with her. She was expecting a bubblegum star to show up and be like "write me songs, lol", but Swift was like "Here are extensive notes and lyrics, here are all the hooks I've already written, I'm already playing…

I have a friend who listens to basically nothing but Scandinavian black metal and hard bop jazz (I know, right), and he thinks this is the most badass move since Prince decided to no longer be Prince in order to screw his former label. Respect.

Next time I’m buying stereo equipment, Taylor’s Version albums are going to be my reference material. The dynamic range on these records is so wide, it’s clear they were mastered for private on-demand listening, not radio. Really lovingly produced, beautiful recordings.

The path to fame and super stardom is far more difficult without a major record label. Most record labels will not sign a new unknown artist without ownership rights over the music said artist releases under them. And once you sign it is very difficult to get out of contracts early (and if you do you still don’t own…

Taylor Swift continues be such a fascinating person and I mean that in the most respectful way possible.

In addition to this, the new release versions are pretty definitively seen as the superior recordings.

This Jez blog reads like it’s not just the private equity firm that underestimated her and Jez is finally figuring out what the rest of the world did ages ago - including those of us who aren’t fans of her music at all but still respect the hell out of her. You’d think a supposedly feminist blog would have better…

My mom died a few years ago from cancer and while driving her home from a particularly obnoxious visit with a doctor I told her that I hated how they talked to her like she was an idiot. She looked at me and said “All my life people thought I was just a dumb blonde. Turn’s out the joke was on them”

Embarrassing is absolutely the right world for underestimating her.