You need to find better bars to go to. I moved to a new city where I knew NO ONE and I love going to bars alone after work, having a beer or two, and then going home to chill for the rest of the night. I never get hit on while sitting at the bar. But they’re cool, small, kind of punk neighborhood bars where the vibe…

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Jesus Christ that is rude! I’d rather people just tell me no so I can prepare. I feel like a lot of people RSVP “yes” because they think you’re going to be offended if they say no and are weirdly afraid about it, so they just don’t show up. Like I don’t care! If you have other plans, that’s fine! But don’t say yes so…

So? She got to the trademark first. If someone else used those similar lyrics and is pissed about it, they dropped the ball. It’s all about opportunity. She’s a smart business woman. I hate her a lot, but I can’t deny her that. If you’re butthurt about it, I don’t know what to say.

They all are lyrics from her songs. It’s not like she’s trademarking “hey, what’s up?” or “can I borrow a pen?” or whatever. AND A LOT OF ARTISTS DO THIS. TONS. HUNDREDS. I work in the music industry. I see it all the time.

Fuck this person. I’m sorry. I feel like teachers totally get fucked over, parents totally get fucked over, and the upper level people at schools are often completely out of touch or tone deaf AF.

Still waiting for Sleigh Bells to sue her because her new song “Ready For It” sounds EXACTLY like the Sleigh Bells song “Kids” only bad.

I hate Taylor Swift but I won’t deny she is a good business woman. That being said, why does she get shit for being smart about her business decisions? Sure, some of it is scummy (THE TICKETMASTER THING INFURIATES ME), but trademarking shit? Pretty run of the mill shit for the music industry.

Mozart died before trademark law even existed, but I bet you Al Green and Aretha Franklin have trademarked shit. Anyone with a manager, legal team, and record deal has done it. You just likely don’t hear about it because they don’t do it as much as Taylor Swift does it. I also doubt you only listen to three artists.

THANK YOU.

She is hardly the first or only artist to trademark phrases (they just report on it more for her), and the reason she does this is so someone can’t go out and make knock-off Taylor Swift merch and profit from it. It’s a way to control her image/merch so that someone isn’t out there making T Swift branded butt plugs or…

WOW... Fuck all of this. How has no one else complained about this?

I recently had to explain to my supervisor what BAE meant.

They don’t have to be. They don’t need a new $25k+ car. A used car works fine and you can find a lot of used cars for under $6k (not that $6k is cheap but it’s much more manageable than a new car). My first car was free. It was my dad’s but my dad had a company car, so I just had to pay insurance on it. When my…

My aunt literally drove my teen cousin EVERYWHERE, but she was also a stay-at-home mom and had time to do that. My cousin had her license when she was 16 but she didn’t have her own car until she went off to college, because she is going to school in LA and needs one.

did not know it was really a biblical+mother nature allegory

Most people I’ve talked to (who hated it as well) said it’s a parallel to the Bible. Not whatever you wrote.

I never said I “KNOW” California and I’ve been all over the state. Not just to LA. SF and Monterey do get very cold compared to other places in California. And there is very little humidity in California, compared to the East Coast. SEE YA.

I love his pop ups! My friend consulted with him on the Stranger Things bar!

Um, yeah. Compared to the east coast? Like none.