“Because we never go out of style,” could be a motto for some classic clothing, for example.

Yes, thank you. But does it not also mean that people cannot use fairly standard phrases while marketing their own material? Will the trademarks be removed once she completes the tour?

This is standard for many artists when they tour and are using things for merchandise. There are specific parameters of how the phrases have to be used. She’s not trademarking to keep random people from using words in the English language, she’s trademarking to keep people from using her lyrics/phrases associated with…

That may be true but the article calls them trademarks, so I am going with that.

If we can do that I say we trademark “the” “umm” and “what”

Who would put “’cause we never go out of style” on anything?!

Prince’s estate should counter that trademark.

YUP. Eff you TS.

i’m about 4 beverages in while i binge netflix and for the first time today i want to do something productive. Can we please drag this POS on twitter? Nobody f’s wit prince. Signed, drunk and now emotional.

Added to this: the trademarking of ordinary sentences? Is this the apex of greed? It puts her in the same class as Trump.

Right? I’m not sure how one can trademark a saying that is a rip-off of someone else’s already copyrighted work...

Party like it’s 1989

Ok I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that this sounds like a song already made by or made for Rihanna. I want to like it but I can’t help but feel like I would like it better if someone else had done it.

I am loving this in the same way I loved smirking at the hippie Marxist in freshman psych.

It’s just terribly generic. This could easily be a Rita Ora song.

Taylor is winning this suck off hard. Witness at least has some 90-esque dance songs on it.

I googled ‘Taylor Swift suck off’ and now I’ve lost the whole afternoon.

It’s like she and Katy Perry decided to have a suck off and not the fun kind. I do kind of like the beat though. The synths would sound better with another singer’s voice.

“And getting this years Grammy, in the category of most over-produced but still completely uninteresting single goes to.... (opens envelope) .... Taylor Swift, for whatever the hell that thing was”

Ugh.