No kidding! Holy fucking hell, this is, what, the 5th, 6th article on Swift I’ve seen in about 2 weeks on Jezebel? I am a big Swift fan, and completely understand why people find her the embodiment of White Feminism (she is) and annoying/too good girl-too mean girl/bad at Pop Starring (meh, to each their own, I hate…

You’re slightly missing the point here.

the hatred Taylor gets on this site is ridiculous.

Yeah, I can’t remember if Jezebel was one of them, but several news outlets said she tried trademarking 1989, leading to a lot of jokes or straight up rage that she was trying to “own” a whole year, but it was actually a trademark of the stylized logo 1989 written in her handwriting that she used in her album artwork…

It’s not about worse, solely. It’s about OLD. This is the equivalent of shitting on Milli Vanilli in 2017.

I read a post somewhere complaining about receiving a C&D from JK Rowling. The jist was Rowling is so rich she shouldn’t care if people use her work to make money themselves. It’s about more than money, its about protecting your own work or, more likely in Taylor’s case, someone using a phrase that people associate…

bitch it’s been done. (by all of the rich music men, for decades.) i don’t understand how this basic as shit legal move is morally questionable in her case. everybody needs to go to law school, especially tabloid fucking writers

Literally every artist does this for their merch.

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…

Thank you. This is just smart business.

Funny story: Pretty much every personality, talent, and brand trademarks, and it’s super easy. It’s not meant in the sense of The Birthday Song, which ignorant folks always bring up, but moreso to prevent direct competitors from mirroring marketing.

I’m a die hard Swifty so whatever she sells, I will buy it. I am here for it.

God, I am so fucking over the left eating their own ... especially women. It’s like people ratcheted up white guilt to 200% and in my personal experience with family and social circles, it’s alienating allies. I don’t have the energy to be that angry and that dedicated to being “right”. Most people don’t and mark my…

Rapping? Really? I mean, there is definitely ‘song’ speaking, but I wouldn’t consider this rap by a long stretch. IDK, it was catchy and fun and got a ridiculously stupid old song that was stuck in my head out. I think I’ll crank it while I do some chores.

I like it! So this isn’t some kind of statement or something, I’ve just never listened to Taylor Swift. I know I’ve ‘heard’ her songs out and about, but in my day to day I don’t listen to music radio and am just not really exposed to current pop music except here on Jez. After her kickass court hearing I thought “I…

Same!!! No shame in my TS loving game.

First: LWYMMD is fucking great!

I want to have 1% of her talent for revenge. My enemies would finally fear me.

i don’t think she gave permission for kanye to sing about wanting to fuck her on his song, though...

I feel like it actually has nothing to do with Kanye but she’s playing into the fact (read: profiting from) everyone thinking it is.