#selling Taylor swift into slavery

[indianfartysummers]

I probably did fudge.

Who knows

No not about countries

Mark and helstlsy didn’t think awe their daughters die but they get locked in a basement

Awe children

Daddy baby jokes?

Pizza?

Does fake beanie USA whore want my hat? Awe whites be that way here

I’m thinking that Dr Line is jealous

Lang

No honey, you’re not the person I called because look at where I am right now

Call*

Correcting your sorry white ass, because you don’t know how to do anything right

And the fact of the matter is, I should not have to ever tolerate anything from somebody like the Rigney garbage

Jessica Thompson, or a lot of other lower class, people, Dr Lang as well

The little baby games are over, and it’s time for Taylor Swift and other people to die

It’s also time for a lot of medical doctors in America to die

We also had access to other medical doctors around the world who can provide better medical care

Although I am going to need Russia to get their heads out of their assholes now

People can’t have anything nice in America or in Russia, to be honest with you

And I don’t appreciate the small minded, stupidity of a lot of Russian men

I upset some of them, but that’s to be expected, run along and play honey, because I keep trying to explain to you the way of things and you keep acting like a bag of shit honey

That’s dicey, but since you’re technically a couple years older than me

You do realise that was not going to make any sense right

Anyway, please don’t laugh like American garbage it really hurts my feelings

Act like American garbage

Excuse you, I gave you guys something different entirely so what are you going to bitch about now?

#human trafficking #rebecca cooper #medical networking to save lives #selling Taylor swift into slavery #selling Halsey types #usefulness #haha #james heltsley #baby rapists #serial killers international #few and far between #of insanity and knowledgeable of low class white games awe #Brandon types getting killed will be the norm #don’t steal from women #not your song #jealousy #1950s #plagiarism #low intelligence #communism and expertise #awe lol

[freddie--fagbear]

I listened to the entirety of The Tortured Poets Department.

it was not to my tastes, these lyrics were the most hard to listen to.

Also im on mobile and also i started writing this like a week ago n i've lost the plot a little but whatever

1. Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)

Not even explaining this one but also how could I, I can't figure out what it even means. It feels like she's just saying words to check them off a list. "What are middle class white women in their late 20s mad about? their blossoming alcoholism! their [probs racist] boyfriend not noticing their new coastal granddaughter themed wardrobe!" .

that being said, it's catchy and can be fun in it's own way, there's a lot of american department store and doing chores to mainstream radio vibes in this album and I do respect that as it's own kinda genre. HOWEVER i do NOT respect pretending it is deep or interesting.

2. The Tortured Poets Department

As I've said before, I stg her writing feels like its off a list of buzzwords her fans like but this is awful original or not. Especially since it's allegedly about that fuckin racist guy from the 1975 or whatever

3. My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys

I didn't even think this one was that bad, I genuinely enjoyed it in that silly catchy taylor swift song way, would love to wander a TJ Maxx to this, It's here because there's gonna be a pattern emerging of Rhyming™️ that she recites in almost the exact same tone with almost the exact same beat in like half the songs on the album.

4. Down Bad

This one I also enjoyed in that silly-catchy way, it would be so fun to vacuum to this. Except for this line, this line rly shot the middleschooler in me who was having fun in the foot.

5. But Daddy I Love Him

Again with the buzzwords she knows her fans like. Also, the rhyming here is not exactly but SO close to the other examples in here. Point being the title of this song combined with the rest of her discography and public behaviours leads me to believe that she did not infact say "the 1830s but without all the racists" as a younger woman i think she said "the 1830s" and then maybe did a faux guilty chuckle if someone mentioned yknow slavery or racism or women or native americans or--

6. Florida!!! (feat. Florence + The Machine)

What.

Taylor Swift's net worth is 900 Million Dollars.

Which isn't to say she can't sing lyrics like this it's just that they're made a tad infuriating by that. Like girl you are a part of the reason people are working their lives away.

(Florence + The Machine i'm so sorry)

7. Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

White women saying stuff like this raises the hairs on the back of my neck, I am afraid, You are scary and you know that and in context you're probably using it to be wack asf. anyway, Otherwise this song is like whatever.

8. loml

Taylor Swift's net worth is 900 Million Dollars.

Beyond that this just feels mocking both in the sense that her music selling hinges on it's relatability to her target audience (which this isn't, at all, for several reasons) and that her music's marketing and the marketing of Taylor Swift the public character is in and of itself a con to buy people into the idea of her enough to sell them merchandise. Also, again, I enjoy manufactured pop music and I think it has a place in the world as an art form; my issue with this whole thing is that it's playing pretend and it's not even pretending well.

9. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

This comes off really ingenuine for so many reasons but the ones that stand out the most to me are that she both disses Joe Alwyn or whatever his name is for being depressed for too long on a different song on this album and also that it feels again written to be consumed not as a an actual expression of anything.

#Taylor Swift #the tortured poets department #anti the tortured poets department #^i dony actually care enough to be 'anti' #im adding that so people who dont want to see hate on the music they like dont have to see it #anyway #ill have to rb with the rest since im on mobile

[ramrodd]

CNN Town Hall South Carolina Cold Open - SNL

COMMENTARY:

i was never a fan of SNL, The people I lived with in DC before Reagan were defined the Dewey Beach, a way of Life. It included a mix of anti-war draft dodgers, Woodstock Nation, future Yupups and combat crazed Vietnam vets like me who had more in common with the anti-war campus activists and civil rights warriors than I did with thugs like Pat Buchanan and Charles Colson. I voted for Nixon before I went to Vietnam and I voted for him when I got back and a great deal of SNL's appeal was its relentless anti-Nixon satire The only time I really got into SNL was the Summer of Land Sharks at Dewey Beach. I was a DJ and the company I worked for and played rugby with were able to convey Jimmy Buffet in our theory of commercial entertainment.

Nikki Halley is from the Concord Bridge of the Southern Rebellion, the 1860 version of January 6, Halley is a hard wired Republican woman who plays Southern Comfort manners perfectly, People in the South of a certain white pedigree going back to Cromwell who are outraged that dueling is no longer permitted to test the argument of the divine right to succeed by breaking a sacred oath underwritten by the blood of their ancestors. People like Glenn Youngkin, who ran on the neo=Nazi platform in order to gain command of the Virginian public treasury to fulfill his lust to own the Caps and Wizards now that Abe Pollen is dean. From the point of view of the people Nikki has successfully negotiated to get to the point she can challenge a white anti-woke Republican in a fair fight, Nikki is  a woke Republican in Charleston or Savannah: the use of the word "slavery" in those polite societies where she had to enlist financial backing is like using the "N" word on CBS.

Of course, Richard Prior gave SNL permission to say "Nigger"  LIVE: its Saturday Night!, I loved his "Nigger: riff in his Live performance when he held up a match to symbolize himself. It pisses right wingers like  Tucker Carlson that right wingers aren't allowed to call Barack Obama and MLK "niggers" I mean, the largest structural racism in America is the Presbyterian Church USA ESPECIALLY those Presbyterian more less the same age as me and Trump when Norman Vincent Peale was the toast of Manhattan with his Prosperity Gospel George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty was aimed, sublimely, at this demographic because it pushes the Jim Crow racism of Woodrow Wilson to sell the white supremacist economics of Supply Side economics and Reaganomics

And that's what happened in that debate: this is her inner woke at work, preventing her, as a Souther lady in the best of traditions, to rhetorically fart  loudly in church.

And this is why incels resent Taylor Swift. The difference between Democrats and Reagan Conservatives  is that Democrats enable women to be uppity while Reagan Conservatives are Pro-Life, where you don't express the opinion that slavery was the cause of the Civil War when everyone knows it was the stupidity of white male slave owners with wives.

You go, Nikki. I'm voting for Biden to complete Stage 2 of Eisenhower's 1956 Presidential Platform and hand off the keys to Starship America to who ever wins in 2028, but I want to watch Trump, naked and in a bag with 7 cats. Taylor Swift is one of  those uppity women and that's why the incels are freaked out by Taylor Swift: These buys entire metric for masculinity likes in the M-16, Arab men claim that they make war or the women would laugh at them.

Nikki  has launched the Party of Lincoln tickect for 2024, GOP Convention LIVE: Its Sunday Morning

#youtube

[nityarawal]

9-9-2023

Make Peace

Not War

Kimmy (AKA Kim Kardashian (West) re: Armenia VS Azizis)

Morning Songs

Make Peace

Not War

Kimmy

Use Your Queendom

For More

Make Peace

Not War

Ask Presidents

To Be Different

Kind Of Lawyers

Make Peace

Not War 

Azizis

Armenia

Like The Gita

Warriors

Make Peace

Not War

Azizis

Like King

Reza

'Cyrus The Great'

Best Military 

Make Peace

Not War

Share

Mamma

Parenting 101

Why You Always 

So Quiet

So Pretty

No Voice

Youngest 

Sweetest

Kardashian

Muse

Mamma

Of My Heart

Why You Always

So Quiet

Letting Tabloids

AI

Tell Your Stories

Mrs Civil

Activist

News Shows Say 

What They Want

To About You

Kidnapping

Silent

Gagged

Conservatorships

Probate Dolls

Of Gluttony

Surgically

Enhanced

For Him

Not Me

Big Lips - Pleas

Said

Rolling Stones

Article

Syndicated

Online

Unread

We Can't Read

Can't Afford

Journalists

Research

Impoverished

Data Full

On Big Brothers

Phones

Silencing

Murders

Investigations

And Cars

With Dollars

For Our Heads

On ROs

Lemons

Writers Strikes

Shadowbanned

On Twitter

Facebook

Gmail

Banks

Insurance

Smeared

Politically

On Real Estate

Probate Ponzi

Schemes

I Wanted To See

Josh Radnor's

Shows On T.V

But Too Poor

On Government Stipend

And Wrongfully

Incarcerated

For 7 Years

Of Divorce Courts

Now Writers

Strike

Now A Actresses 

Strike

Whose Your Nanny

Did You Get Taylor

Swift

Puppeting

On The Black Market

Poppet Master

#FreeBritney 

"Christma-cah"

Dream Santa #FreeBritney 

Katie Perry

To Clean Your 

Airbnb

Whose The Fairy

Tale Godmother

Tonight

Acting For "Free"

In Your Bedroom

On Tax Dollars

Slavery

A Futuristic

AI

Genie

Hologram

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3D

In Someone's Mind

About Us

Mamma

Was Always

Triangulated

Someone Wants To Love

Her

Hate Her

Dad Or Me

"F" Us

Hookers Thrown

At Brotherly

By Sterling Men's Group

Attys

Army

"Whose Who,"

Wants To Know

Our Stories

King Taster's

On Bid

My Novel

Twent Five Plus Years

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To Publish

"Whose Who,"

Wants Our Story

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Wants Me To Talk

"Whose Who,"

What About You

Will You Move

Your Pretty Lips

Drop The ROs

From Your Dad's

Syrupy Shows

Murderers

California

Courts

OJ Simpson

Laws To Protect

The Assassin

Brokers

What Drugs

Make You So 

Chill

Or Is It Vegan

Herbal

Smoothies

Queen's Bitters

Got You 

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Thanksgiving

Alexandria House

Charities

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For Mommy 

And Me

Dhani Harrison

Mereki

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Armenia

Tehrangeles

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The Dog

He Is From

Armenia

Too

Deserves More

Than 25 Years

California Camping

A Army Soldier

Vet

We All Want Peace

We Ask

For Our Moms

Co-Parents

Globally

Don't Sell Another

Child

Daughter

Mother

Sister

Or Womb

Gracias Madres

Padres

Peace

My Love

Peace,

Nitya Nella Davigo Azam Moezzi Huntley Rawal 

(Americano Ethnicity in Nutshell: Born in Chicago:

Vedic French Italiano- Azizi- Persian Sufi Kings Taster- Scottish Buddha.) 

[imakuvii]

Yes I did mention the motion of threat of Nacy Pelsoy Husband Thank you well thank you not really thinking about them for Xi chi points well I’m not it is he’s play of choose which is strange I have been looking at very body What about Taylor that she confronted her about cooling down well I was right rash oral thoughts look at him Elon musk I moved around for you to get it in!!! You know what I’m talking about Twitter yeah I heard I said it already but sure I meant he’s older brother no the one that actually lives here on your skinny skin skin which you choose to care for ?! Yes Joe Biden I saw that Obama Black forever for my sis nope I got tired of not telling a soul okay good as long as no body cares I’m fine yup watch you guys f up yes Dune I saw your little brother yup candy mf umm just four or five sure Elon I’ll date your daughter I’ll date every on film and sell hard right there you happy now you better be look at tv not movie jack ryan my dads twins Stephen no way good Mr bee and save it for later alright move fools no there haunting right now the ghosts demons witch good luck yes Stephen Colbert yeah I know I did he’s missing out cause he does future comedy a lot yeah Lauren very we’re it was nice I seen Heather in the deep end in my sleep Roland se** peice of a** I already went up there the board I see you Graham Football MotherF my channel o see better s*** god nasty church all of though grandma’s fluffy omg you know what they f them over foul fuel lol I’m such a good guy lol I know you guys are better off stage we laugh all day long what jocks where I don’t see them oow that’s right American murderer is joining in on Steven twin Slavery andie where’s your family at I know her but that was just one is that ok lol I’m sorry here we go hit me omg wow I like that he judge where Batman thank you Antman ow you think your better then me cursing swearing yes like that save the action for laters what kind of person are you it’s totally Biblical totally I’m Phillip AH you start walking to be I’m little Jesus Christ I’m a Giant to them why god why you tell them wheelchair you tell them these my side walk total protest prohibition 31 do it no say yes please thank you the alien systems are coming lol my greatest creation no I don’t won’t cigarettes with flavor so * thank you minimize how your music is crashing on new phones I’m just saying but Naruto how do you know me lol thank you yeah prevy bleach totally did it that it your fired yup but trump no I’m not condemning these words nope come on women bring it final fantasy baby yes Taylor swift Such a wipe on digital coding upgrades yeah call of duty I really do need eight more maps yup buy the farms make it useful I would love it cause they need a back pack hip out I’m serious you better cover the batteries in the car I’ll wow chill only 215 million s up I’m picking up he’s b***s can you not f me in California dode people are lazy here

[inchident-jpg]

Idk how to start this but history is so us centric in the uk in order to other the uk to a create a patriotism with in british kids something that we have to thrive on in order to work for the state blindly and defend them when stuff happens. Like when blm was happening many hite ppl in Britain where like but we're better 😖🥺 and 101 reasons y Britain is better then the us 😩😍 and shit. Its also a way of erasing bipoc truma that the uk and Europe created/ played a pivotal role in as it will ensure their supremacy and power over the world. So yuh also at the same time it's also a way of erasing their problematic history like aspects of colonialism being erased, aspects of slavery being erased, churchill wanting too hate crime black ppl, ghandi (for being Asian and not a Wikipedia phile )and Jewish ppl and their history of strong anti Semitism , anti blackness and all round hite supremacy that were quite recent years. also back to patriotism basically its another way of dividing the working class ppl of the uk eg when a bipoc person says Churchill wanted to hate crime me a hite person would be like omg stfu u wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for him. Yes that definitely comes from a place of privallage which protects one's ignorance but also a place of patriotism that was hammered into one through schools and history lessons that doesnt serve the state in the short run but in the long run it wil because when shit gets exposed then the hite British bourgeoisie will still have ppl to exploitAnd it divides the working class which makes it better to control the working class as a whole. It also helps the glorification of the British like u wouldn't have songs like London boy by miss Taylor swift that make my ansecotors turn in their graves if it wasn't for us centrist drivin narratives of history playing a pivitol role in it that present the uk has superior and wiser and all around prettier. Plus it also sells to have a picture like that literally. Idk if this makes sense but like yuh. I could go further into detail but as miss material girl Sampson said i have to plan ❤️ Also i am aware this only touches of history lessons but this also applies to just the uk education system at large and just the education system at large as well. Pls if you wanna add stuff or correct me pls do soo

#uk schools #history #capitalism #just an observation #blacklivesmatter #class consciousness #school system #school syllabus #school #university #england #us centric #colonisation #xenophobia #colonialism #antiblackness #racisim #tw racsim #taylor swift gifs #t swift #london boy #swifties #all too well #taylor swift #lover era #red tv vault

[joealwyndaily]

Joe Alwyn recently met his childhood hero. The 28-year-old was attending the Academy's annual Governors Awards for the first time, where a who's who of Hollywood had gathered to schmooze with Oscar voters and watch this year's honorees receive honorary awards. The hobnobbing eventually led Alwyn to cross paths with none other than Zorro himself, Antonio Banderas.

"It took everything in me not to challenge him into a sword fight," Alwyn admitted.

Banderas, of course, starred as the masked vigilante in 1998's The Mask of Zorro and its sequel. "I was such a huge fan of Zorro growing up," Alwyn grinned. "That's one of the reasons why I probably ended up acting somehow. I literally just shook his hand and said, 'Hi!'" As it were, Banderas is in the awards season shuffle with Pain and Glory, while Alwyn was out in support of his new film, Harriet.

"There was no competitive element, obviously," he said. Still, the Governors Awards serve as the first pit stop for any potential Oscars contender. "You're sitting there watching these four amazing legends being honored for the most amazing backlog of work, someone like David Lynch and Geena Davis. And then you run into people that you have grown up watching."

Now, Alwyn is the one being watched. After studying at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, as actors such as Sir Laurence Olivier and Andrew Garfield did before him, a then-unknown Alwyn was cast as the lead of Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk in 2015. "That was the strangest experience when it ended," Alwyn said.

"Because it was such a surreal, full-on experience: Going to a country I'd never been to before, being on a film set -- which I'd never been in front of a camera before -- with a group of people who I'd grown up watching, it was the most intense experience I'd had, ever. And then suddenly--" He snaps his fingers. "It's ended. And you are back in London and everyone's still over there and you're back to walking the dog and it's raining and you're trying to compute what's just happened. It was very surreal."

When I met up with Alwyn after the Governors Awards, he greeted me at the door to shake my hand and promptly offered to get me a water. "Or Coke? Or coffee?" he asked, surveying the spread of beverages. All of which is to say, he's polite. And humble, too, whether it be over compliments of his wardrobe -- a peacoat over a cerulean sweater, khaki joggers and great boots ("Thank you! They're not mine!") -- or the trajectory of his career.

If Alwyn's unlikely start feels nearly impossible to match, he followed Billy Lynn with a run of meaningful supporting roles, which were only possible because Lee took a chance on him. "Every opportunity since is because of that," he said, arm draped over the back of the chair. "I owe him everything."

"I felt very lucky to work with someone like him for the first time, and I thought, if I can, I want to keep trying to work with really interesting, great directors and not just jump into something that's a big role or big for the sake of it," he explained. "Trying to find parts in really interesting projects and build that way rather than just blindly jump."

That thinking led to a truly breakthrough year in 2018, with Alwyn appearing in Operation Finale, as the Nazi son of Ben Kingsley's Adolph Eichmann, in The Favourite, as the airhead paramour to Emma Stone, in Boy Erased, as a troubled love interest for Lucas Hedges, and in Mary Queen of Scots, as hand to Margot Robbie's Queen Elizabeth.

All the while he was gaining recognition for his acting, there was another angle of interest about Alwyn, casting him into the public spotlight for his personal life as the longtime boyfriend of Taylor Swift. How, then, was he able to reconcile the two?

"I just don't really engage with anything that I don't want to engage with," he said. "And so if there's any kind of extra noise about things that I'm not so interested in, I'll just turn it off. And so it just disappears, to a degree."

Currently, he's engaged with his return to theaters in director Kasi Lemmons' soulful Harriet Tubman biopic. Harriet is the first time the abolitionist and activist's story has been adapted into a proper biopic, and Alwyn acknowledged that, before being sent the script, "I ignorantly didn't really know much about Harriet. Growing up in the U.K., she's not part of the curriculum. I'd heard of her name, I'd seen the iconic older image of her, but I didn't know really who she was or what she did and what she achieved."

Cynthia Erivo plays the titular role, with Alwyn co-starring as Gideon Brodess, the son of Tubman's enslaver. The Brodess family is a matter of historical record, though Gideon exists somewhere between composite character and fictitious creation. That posed a challenge for Alwyn as he began the process of finding his way into Gideon.

"It was tricky. I mean, he's obviously a horrible person," he said. "And a horrible family. And they stood for something that is impossible to connect with today. For any good human being, it's impossible. The idea of slavery is repulsive and abhorrent, and so trying to find a way in is hard."

Instead, Alwyn searched for any relatable human qualities he could latch onto. Harriet posits that Araminta "Minty" Ross -- the child who would grow to become Harriet Tubman -- and Gideon Brodess would have been born around the same time, and Gideon might have even considered Minty a friend during their childhood. "Then, suddenly, a line would have been drawn and he would've been taught to hate or told to hate," Alwyn explained.

Their ties are further knotted when Gideon's father dies and he becomes Harriet's enslaver. "Whatever feeling it is he has for her that we touch on throughout the film -- whether it's love that's buried there, or whatever it is -- I don't think there was a language to understand that for himself. So I tried to hold onto some kind of confusion as a human being. Or to an obligation and loyalty to a family, even if that family is completely horrible."

He had the fortune of navigating it all alongside Erivo, with whom he shares the majority of his scenes. Erivo signed on to the project before anyone else and had spent years with it, in addition to the research and physical training she did before filming. Ahead of production, Alwyn and Erivo met with their director for a week's worth of rehearsals, during which they walked through the duo's most difficult scenes.

"It wasn't the kind of film where it would have been helpful to play mind games and go and sit in the corner and not talk to each other," he chuckled. "Because of the nature of it, you want to be in a safe space with each other and give each other a kind of understanding and a reassurance and permission to do whatever you need to do in order to service the scene, service the story in the way that we're trying to tell it."

And that story, he decided, was not strictly about a historical figure and what she was able to achieve in her lifetime. Harriet speaks to what has come to pass, now as much as ever: "If you're scrolling through Twitter or you go on the news, you're inundated with stories of division and prejudice and racism and families being torn apart," he said. "That's something that the film touches on, and Harriet is -- as much as any figure I can think of -- someone who fought and overcame those hurdles and is a shining light against all of those things."

With Harriet playing in theaters, Alwyn's next projects are already lined up: He's playing Bob Cratchit in FX's dark reimagining of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, opposite Guy Pearce's Ebenezer Scrooge. Then there is an adaptation of Jojo Moyes' best-selling novel, The Last Letter From Your Lover. And then? "I'd love to do a big war movie," he grinned. "Like a World War movie or something. That'd be cool."

And there are more awards season events ahead, too -- the Governors Awards being only the beginning of the race to the Oscars -- which means future opportunities to proclaim his love of Zorro. Alwyn didn't do it the first time. "I was just like, 'Hello!'" But it's bound to happen sooner or later." As I leave the hotel that day, who should stroll past me inside but Antonio Banderas himself? Perhaps it will be sooner.

#joe alwyn #interview #harriet #omg i love this! #JOE MET HIS CHILDHOOD HERO #that's so cute!!!!

[analyzingtaylor]

It sounded like Scott Borchetta only offered her a deal that would have tied Taylor to Big Machine, possibly, the rest of her recording days. He never offered to sell her the masters. He wanted her to earn each album back with a new album. What about the future albums? Would they have to be earned back? And was he going to give each album back out of her future profits? It sounds like slavery to me. Prince crossed my mind when I thought of that. It must have broke Taylor’s heart, but she had to.

The only thing we can all agree on is that in 2019, Taylor Swift will never ever make a slavery analogy.

[magnus-banes-adopted-daughter]

For Taylor

As a Swiftie, the past couple of days I have witnessed the Big Machine Records situation, and the following reactions of various people for it...

Taylor Swift was brave enough to express her feelings about it, in a post here. Many celebrity friends, rushed to show their support for Taylor, and the very very hard situation that she is forced to endure. All of the work that she had been doing since she was 15 years old, all the lyrics where she has poured her heart, her memories out, all the touring, the spotlight corrosion that she had to overcome and endure, now belongs to the person who singlehandedly orchestrated a few off the most hard situations that Taylor has been put through.

However, there is the other side, whose sole answer and defend is that, they only made a business transaction, that purchasing this specific label wasn't personal and that they just bought something that was on sale.

Dear humanity,

Being a person doesn't work like that.

You can't justify a horrible and dehumanised act, as a business transaction. When you take a young under age person's work, and make money from it, by exploiting their talent and skills, and those people take breadcrumbs for the work that gives you millions, that's pure EXPLOITATION.

When you can't recognise and appreciate and give recognition to another person for their hard and honest labor, you become an egoistical , self obsessed and vile person, who is prepared to step on everyone's worth, steal their work, and sacrifice basic human rights in order to get rich and to lift yourself up in the social lader.

It is the same root problem that births concepts like racism, slavery, war. The notion that you are by birth superior than others just because you are more widely accepted in a society which worships money and reputation. That is what race and gender racism is based upon. The notion that you can vastly benefit from other people's labor without breaking a sweat while you give them breadcrumbs or nothing at all. That is what slavery is based upon. The notion that you can harm, destroy,force or bully someone into submission. That is what war is based upon.

You can't step on everyone's worth and being disrespectful on their work by exploiting it and getting filthy rich over the years, and then after you have done your part, selling that work away and letting someone else exploit them, the same way you did. That is not music's value and that is not Taylor's value.

At the end of the day all Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have achieved is too expose themselves as the manipulative, money hungry and egotistical people that they truly are.

I pity the people that choose to invest in Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun professionally and emotionally, for they have proven that in the altar of money, and personal gain they will step on years hard earned human rights and basic human decency.

#Taylor Swift #Scott Borchetta #Scooter Braun #music theft #human rights #decency #betrayal #I stand with Taylor

[ts1989fanatic]

What Taylor Swift’s new record deal means for the music industry — and for her image

Swift’s new record deal comes with stipulations.

Taylor Swift just signed with a new record label — and in the process, she has continued the PR offensive that she kicked off earlier this year with her first entrée into politics.

Swift is leaving behind her longtime label partner Big Machine Records, which has released all of her albums to date, to partner with Universal Music Group’s Republic Records (also the home of Drake). But the focus of the media narrative around Swift’s decision to change labels has less to do with the move itself and more to do with the stipulations that Swift attached to it.

There’s a lot of music industry jargon in Taylor Swift’s new contract, but here’s what it means

There are two big stipulations in play here.

First, Swift will own all of her own master recordings from now on. That means she’ll own the copyright on the recording of any music she makes, which in turn means that she’ll have more control over where her music is used, and she’ll get a bigger cut of the profits. Big Machine Records will retain ownership of the master recordings of all her previous music, so this clause only applies to music Swift makes going forward.

Second, Swift has made it a condition of her contract that if Universal Music Group sells its Spotify shares, the label will distribute some of the money from that sale to all of the artists it represents, “non-recoupable,” meaning it won’t count against their advances. It’s a huge commitment from UMG that, until Swift’s deal, was far from assured.

UMG owns a 3.5 percent stake in Spotify, estimated to be worth $850 million. The label hasn’t sold any of its shares yet — but other record labels have. As Music Business Worldwide explains, earlier this year, Sony sold about half of its 5.7 percent stake in Spotify for $768 million, and Warner Brothers sold 75 percent of its shares — a less than 5 percent stake — for $504 million. The result was a huge influx of cash for both companies, and while both said that they would be sharing the money with their artists, Sony artists ended up seeing a lot more of it than Warner Brothers artists did.

That’s because the two labels took different approaches to how they passed that money along to their artists. It’s also why Swift’s deal is important for both her and her fellow artists at UMG.

When an artist signs with a music label, the label advances the artist some of the money it thinks the artist will bring in. Essentially, if an artist signs a $3 million contract, the label is saying, “We’re pretty sure you’ll earn $3 million in royalties in your first year of sales, so here’s that money early.” But that means the artist doesn’t get any more royalty payments until they’ve earned back that $3 million. (You can read more about how advances work here.)

Whenever an artist hasn’t yet earned back an advance, they have what’s called “an unrecouped balance” with their label. As far as the label’s accounting books are concerned, the artist owes the label money.

So when a label sells Spotify shares — which means a big payday — it’s got two possible ways of sharing that payday with its artists. It can either count the money toward any unrecouped balances, or it can choose not to.

Sony decided that when it shared its Spotify money with its artists, it was going to ignore any unrecouped balances and send them the money directly, without applying it to their advances. Warner Brothers did the opposite, and applied the Spotify money to artists’ unrecouped balances before passing any of it along. In practice, that meant Sony artists got a big paycheck out of the Spotify deal, but the only thing that a lot of Warner Brothers artists got was the promise that they were a little bit closer to seeing an actual royalty statement someday.

No one knew exactly which road UMG would take when it eventually sold its Spotify shares — until Taylor Swift announced her new record deal. Now, UMG has committed to taking the Sony road rather than the Warner Brothers road. That means the label’s Spotify money will go directly to its artists, right away.

“As part of my new contract with Universal Music Group, I asked that any sale of their Spotify shares result in a distribution of money to their artists, non-recoupable,” Swift explained on Tumblr. “They have generously agreed to this, at what they believe will be much better terms than paid out previously by other major labels. I see this as a sign that we are headed toward positive change for creators — a goal I’m never going to stop trying to help achieve, in whatever ways I can.

A unified theory of Taylor Swift’s reputation

Swift’s new record deal is the latest entry in her public image rehabilitation

For Swift, this move is a public relations coup. It solidifies her position as a power player in the industry who can single-handedly set norms, and it simultaneously continues the narrative of Swift as a plucky underdog artist, fighting for her fellow musicians against the corporate greed of record labels.

Swift has been fighting that fight since 2014, when she removed all of her music from Spotify’s library in an act of protest against the platform’s low streaming royalties. It came up again in 2015, when she publicly tussled with Apple Music over its royalty payments. And again in 2017, when she returned her music to Spotify after it adopted a “windowing” policy, wherein newly released music would be available only to paid subscribers for a specified window of time. (That move also let Swift conveniently steal some spotlight from Katy Perry, which was just gravy.) There’s no reason to think that Swift is insincere or uncommitted in this fight, but the fact remains that it is consistently good for her image and generates flattering headlines for her.

And Swift seems to have been courting flattering headlines for the past few months. Her image took a major hit in 2016, when Kim Kardashian published a video that seemed to catch Swift in a messy, public lie about Kanye West, and the ensuing fallout lasted through the release of Swift’s 2017 album Reputation.

But as Kanye West has spent more and more time wearing a MAGA hat in public and saying that slavery was a choice, Swift has begun to strategically position herself as someone who is easier to like than Kanye West. She’s stopped keeping her head down, as she noticeably did even through the release of Reputation, and stepped more firmly into the spotlight than she has at any point since 2016. Kanye West is losing, which means Taylor Swift has the opportunity to win again.

After pointedly refusing to discuss politics for most of her career, Swift stepped forward in October to call on her young fans to vote, endorsing two Democratic candidates in her home state of Tennessee. Swift’s candidates lost, but the voting advocacy site Vote.org did report a massive and measurable surge in the number of registrations it got from young people following Swift’s call to arms. “Thank God for Taylor Swift,” the site’s communications director Kamari Guthrie told BuzzFeed News.

And the day after Swift told her fans to vote, she opened the American Music Awards with a pointed rendition of “I Did Something Bad” — a song that is almost definitely about Swift’s feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. The subtext of the performance was clear: “You backed the wrong horse in that fight, America.” Taylor Swift might have lied in public, but she’s not about to go on TMZ and talk about how much she loves Donald Trump. Instead, she’s suggesting, she’s going to endorse some Democrats and fight for the little guy.

Two years after her spectacular defeat at Kim Kardashian’s hands, Taylor Swift appears to be decisively winning her war with Kanye West. And by now, she is such a savvy player that she can turn something as simple as a record label switch into a formidable weapon against him. All of which means that as far as reputations are concerned, Taylor Swift is a winner again.

ts1989fanatic why do these stories always have to keep rehashing the Kartrashian lies.

[flawlesslikequeenbey]

WHY THERE IS NO COMPARISON BETWEEN BEYONCE AND TAYLOR SWIFT

Now,before i start with my case,i would like to clarify that i am a beyonce fan but not a tswift hater. Infact, i love her songs. They are hella catchy. So now i am gonna present you some facts so you can get to know why bey is the queen and taylor isn’t inspite of her being an amazing female artist. 1) Some swifties claiming that “Taylor is the new queen” , “1989 has so many no1 songs. When was beyonce’s last no.1 song ? In 2008? Single ladies huh ?” Now honey,let me tell you that bey is no longer a “singles” artist which taylor still is. Beyonce is an “album artist”. This woman dropped an entire album on itunes at midnight without any promotion and changed the game. who does that ? AN ICON. Bey doesn’t need a single to make her successful because she already is. Sure,’Blank Space’ is an amazing song and its a right move for her to hit back at her haters. Yes it was a no.1 song on the billboard charts. But does it have an impact on the generation ? Nope. Now “Formation” - a song from beyonce’s “Monumental album lemonade” (As said by adele, Period.)  Was it a no1 on the charts? NO. Was it impactful ? HELL YES. She got white people talking about the black lives matter bubs. 2)Taylor swift’s RED and 1989 both are amazing albums. While the former is about her feelings. heartbreak and romance..the latter is romance presented in a more ideal way , flipping her haters off. Are they good albums ? YES. ( Do they deserve a grammy album of the year ? While Red should have won cuz it actually that good. 1989 shouldn’t have won. In an ideal world, everyone should admit it that a man talking about the pain of black people, police brutality, slavery in such a bold way is commendable but not the grammy’s aka the racist award ceremony. Rather than thinking of it as people hating on taylor, think of it as people giving that man (Kendrick lamar) the credit that he deserves. Grammys are racist. Adele knows it. Kanye west knows it. Frank ocean knows it. Every fucking artist knows it. So its time that we know it too rather than defending our favs and missing out the entire point of frank ocean saying that “To pimp a butterfly” deserved to win rather than “1989″.  ) On the other hand, beyonce’s self titled album and lemonade are both extraordinary albums. Both lost a grammy AOTY( duh ! Obviously. Its grammys bruh and Bey is a black artist) While the former is about embracing sexuality and feminism,the latter is about infidelity, reconciliation, black lives matter. Are they good albums ? FUCKING EXTRAORDINARY BRUH. 3) The whole experience of listening to bey and tay’s album is amazing. While listening to taylor , i connect with her lyrics and associate with some incident in my life. Bey’s albums makes me wanna dance, then be a boss ass bitch, then cry when a sad song comes on ugh. Its a roller coaster ride. But in the last few years, the experience of listening  to a beyonce album is better than listening to a tswift album . Blame it on the extraordinary concept of beyonce’s visual albums. She is making such cool and powerful albums that its hard to like beyonce and tswift’s album the same. Bey is in the lead baby.You gotta accept it. 4) If we’re talking about commercial accomplishment then tay might be the one ahead right now but beyonce was doing all that when tay was dropping her initial albums. She’s come far beyond that. She doesn’t need her albums to sell millions of copies the way taylor’s does because even after years , bey’s albums are still the talking point. Not for the damn sales,but for the message it holds. ( Btw this is the woman who brought in the whole alter ego thing. Sasha fierce ? Yonce’? YAAAAAS ) Also beyonce is the only female artist to have all her 6 albums debut at no.1 on the charts so... 5) Tay might interact with her fans a lot to get that connect but does bey even need that ? Bey might not talk to her fans on tumblr or respond to them on twitter the way taylor does but when she is on that stage singing “Halo” or “XO” or anything else it feels like she is just talking to you. That connection my love, is not easy to achieve so easily. She doesn’t need to interact with the beyhive to increase her fan base. It has been increasing forever since 2003. -> Taylor swift might be the biggest FEMALE ARTIST in the world right now but Beyonce is the biggest and the most impactful ARTIST AND ROLE MODEL in the world. ( She doesn’t need that whole ‘male’ ‘female’ artist distinction. Lmao ) And that is why Beyonce is the Queen and artists bow down to her including your fav.

#beyonce #knowles #bey #queenbey #taylor #swift #tay #artist #female #blankspace #formation #Lemonade #Red #1989 #grammy #albumoftheyear #Jay-Z #sorry

[go-redgirl]

JANET STREET-PORTER: Don't knock Kayne's very profitable religious fervor, he's finally found Someone to look up to!

By JANET STREET-PORTER 

PUBLISHED: 18:05 EDT, 30 October 2019 | UPDATED: 18:32 EDT, 30 October 2019

Does Kanye West think he is God on earth? The biggest ego in show business has been cosying up to the ultimate Higher Power.

His new album Jesus is King is just 27 minutes long and is dividing the critics. Is it brilliant or blasphemous?

This genius marketeer uses his Christian faith to craft a collection of songs that claim to glorify God in an 'expression' of the gospel.

It's completely profanity free, a far cry from the kind of stuff that's sold over 140 million of his records since 2004.

Kanye (who now wants to be known as Ye) has denounced rap music and claims to speak from the heart, but reviews of his hip hop gospel work have been mixed, some describing the album as 'lyrically lazy'.

Fans disagree - producer Warryn Campbell says it's hypocritical to judge Kanye (or anyone) for 'trying to grow his faith and his commitment to God…he is completely sincere'.

If Kanye claims to be a messenger from God, preaching family values, love and togetherness, should we be cynical?

Is selling stuff called 'church clothes'- sweat shirts costing $250 with images of Jesus on them and $20 socks emblazoned with 'Jesus Walks' – the work of a true believer?

Is this enterprise all about the glorification of God or the enrichment and glorification of Kanye West?

After all, humility is a big part of the Christian message and West once told an interviewer 'I'm unquestionably, undoubtedly, the greatest human artist of all time…this is not even a question any more'.

This artist divides opinion like no other and is frequently listed as one of the most dislikeable people in the entertainment industry. He's said he can be an architect, product designer, whatever he wants.

Which begs the question, is KW a bit of an idiot or an inspirational genius?

Are his fans brain-washed zombies who will buy into any message their leader spouts?

Is it racist to criticise a black icon because he is crass and sometimes oafish?

West has never shied away from controversy. At a benefit concert after Hurricane Katrina, he announced 'George Bush doesn't care about black people'.

This week he said that black people have been 'brainwashed' by Democrats who have 'tricked' them into supporting pro-abortion policies.

He recently confused taking the morning-after pill with having an abortion, prompting the comment 'black women can make their own choices about their bodies'.

He also seemed to imply that 400 years of slavery was a 'choice' for black Americans, although he's since apologised and says he was misunderstood.

West's behaviour in public has sometimes verged on the infantile and boorish - a low point occurred in 2009 when he took to the stage as Taylor Swift was accepting an industry award, grabbing the microphone and announcing that it should have gone to Beyonce.

In 2004 he stormed out of the American Music Awards when he didn't win Best New Artist.

In 2016, his behaviour seemed increasingly erratic - and after cancelling concerts he spent time in hospital, apparently for a breakdown.

Then he came off social media for 11 months. He's since been diagosed with bipolar disorder, which he calls 'a superpower'.

When West returned to work, it was to focus on promoting his faith. He started Sunday services for invited guests and celebrities at his estate in California last January, taking the lead with a large choir.

There's no sermons, just singing. Recently, he's been staging public 'services' at Coachella and at other venues in California and New York, in the run up to the album's release.

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OPINION:  We, believe he never gotten over his Mother’s  early un-timing death.  She wasn't that old at all and he was very young.  

But, we believe that his mother in ‘spirit’ is still with him looking down from heaven and is so pleased with his accomplishments!

Everyone just loves Kayne!  

Music want heal his pain from the early departure of his Mother, but Almighty God well.  

Its just a matter of time.

Many, many blessing Kayne, God is with you always!

[nicholerestrada]

Poliwood: The ups and downs of combining celebrities and politics

(CNN)Poliwood — the intersection of politics and Hollywood — can be a powerful combination, capable of elevating policy debates and inspiring broad audiences. Unfortunately, it can also dumb us down to a nation of slack-jawed spectators.

On Sunday night, Taylor Swift told her million-plus Instagram followers to register to vote while endorsing the Democratic candidate for Senate in her native Tennessee, Phil Bredesen, a popular former Governor and Nashville Mayor. According to the director of communications for Vote.org, an estimated 65,000 people registered to vote within 24 hours.

On Thursday, Kanye West entered the Oval Office for a meeting with President Trump, surrounded by a phalanx of reporters. Wearing a MAGA hat, the rapper delivered an enthusiastic if rambling monologue feet from the Resolute desk.

In rough chronological order, Kanye called for prison reform, pitched hard for Adidas, called for abolishing the 13th amendment (which ended slavery), talked about living in the moment and his now-revoked diagnosis of bipolar disorder, proposed replacing Air Force One with a hydrogen plane, took a contrarian view on police violence, slammed liberals for their obsession with racism, supported inner-city manufacturing, endorsed teaching math and basketball at the same time to combat ADD, and mused about running for president himself, but only after Trump is finished.

If Kanye’s comments had been coherent, they would have made great copy. Instead, it was a surreal and sad spectacle — one of the world’s biggest celebrities on an ego bender at best and on the edge of a breakdown at worst.

But Trump seemed to eat up every odd moment. After all, Kayne is the probably most prominent African-American to endorse his presidency since Omarosa left the White House.

Poliwood can make strange bedfellows. Conservatives embrace a rapper while liberals rally around a one-time country music star. And the Kanye-Trump meeting is just the latest example of how celebrities have been used for good and ill by presidents on both sides of the aisle.

One hundred years ago, the first truly national celebrities from the silent movie era — Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks — were dispatched on a national tour to sell war bonds on behalf of the Wilson administration during World War I. (For those of you tempted to Google “war bonds,” I’ll save you a click: it’s how we used to pay for wars before we passed the buck to the next generation).

Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned how to harness the power of someone else’s celebrity in the age of radio and summoned two of the biggest stars of the time– Frank Sinatra and Orson Welles — to perform at political rallies carried over the airwaves. The multifaceted genius of Welles even found time to praise Roosevelt in syndicated newspaper columns and serve as a ghostwriter for his campaign.

Years later the young and telegenic Senator John F. Kennedy drew on pop culture for his campaign, commissioning Sinatra to sing “High Hopes” during the 1960 election. But while JFK’s celebrity friends added to the glamorous aura of Camelot, they were rarely deployed for policy purposes. Kennedy was more focused on the personal benefits that came from hanging out with Marilyn Monroe.

Richard Nixon tried to flip the script for Republicans. He was brilliant but awkward; cold rather than cool. But he agreed to appear on the popular comedy variety show “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” to help cut the ice, gamely repeating the show’s catch phrase “Sock it to me!” He knew that while long-haired, baby-boom celebrities were protesting, he could count on older, establishment figures like Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope and Sammy Davis Jr. to back him.

Then there was the time that Nixon met the King. Elvis Presley wore a purple velvet suit, a massive gold belt and a handgun to the Oval office. He asked to receive, without evident irony, a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. It has been, as of 2015, the most requested photo from the National Archives.

President Jimmy Carter’s rise was aided by early positive profiles by Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson and the evangelical candidate’s surprising admiration for Bob Dylan and the Allman Brothers. Willie Nelson even famously smoked a joint on the roof of the White House after playing a concert for Carter.

But the big daddy of celebrity politics was Ronald Reagan. For all the right-wing fundraising off stereotypes about liberal Hollywood’s hostile takeover of our politics, the only denizen of Hollywood who actually reached the Oval Office was Reagan. His White House attracted old celebrity friends, ranging from Sinatra (again) to Jimmy Stewart. First lady Nancy Reagan even publicized her “Just Say No” to drugs campaign with Mr. T.

And in Reagan’s wake a host of celebrities ran for office as Republicans, from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson to congressman Sonny Bono.

More recently, President George W. Bush developed a lasting friendship with U2 frontman Bono, who played a pivotal role lobbying Congress for the international AIDS drug program known as Pep-Far. It’s often cited as one of that administration’s proudest legacies, saving millions of lives. And President Barack Obama was criticized by Fox News’ Sean Hannity for hobnobbing with Jay-Z.

At its best, Poliwood makes it cool to care, leveraging celebrity to galvanize support for something more important than celebrity. As George Clooney said during his work to bring international attention to the genocide in Darfur and the need to end decades of civil war in South Sudan, “Celebrity can help focus news media where they have abdicated their responsibility. We can’t make policy, but we can ‘encourage’ politicians more than ever before.”

But at its worst, Poliwood can help politicians deflect attention from their own unpopular policies, dumbing down the electorate in the process.

In some ways, President Trump represents the culmination of Poliwood to date. After multiple corporate bankruptcies, the publicity-loving real estate mogul reinvented himself as a reality TV star with “The Apprentice.” In the process, he solidified his place in the American imagination as a decisive executive, eager to say “you’re fired” at the end of every show.

Trump earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and reoriented his business around marketing. He then parlayed his no-nonsense, politically incorrect profile into a successful pitch for the presidency.

But the rush to emulate Trump’s cannonball into the political pool has its limits. “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon was trounced in her energetic attempt to run to the left of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary last month.

Whether Poliwood is a force for good or simply a glittering distraction depends on this question: What’s actually accomplished?

If a celebrity endorsement just benefits a politician looking to boost their profile and prove their cool, then it’s a lame effort to manipulate fans with short attention spans.

Join us on Twitter and Facebook

But if Poliwood draws sustained attention to a real public policy problem, it can serve as a gateway to civic engagement and spur political action.

By that standard, Taylor Swift’s Instagram call to arms ended up having a measurable impact by encouraging voter registration. But the Kayne-Trump summit was a lost opportunity — an attention bath for two boundless egos rather than a serious attempt to raise awareness about prison reform.

The comic-book-loving Kanye and his Presidential pal would do well do recall this bit of advice from Spiderman: With great power comes great responsibility.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/14/opinions/hollywood-and-politics-collide-opinion-avlon/index.html

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[michaeljtraylor]

Poliwood: The ups and downs of combining celebrities and politics

(CNN)Poliwood — the intersection of politics and Hollywood — can be a powerful combination, capable of elevating policy debates and inspiring broad audiences. Unfortunately, it can also dumb us down to a nation of slack-jawed spectators.

On Sunday night, Taylor Swift told her million-plus Instagram followers to register to vote while endorsing the Democratic candidate for Senate in her native Tennessee, Phil Bredesen, a popular former Governor and Nashville Mayor. According to the director of communications for Vote.org, an estimated 65,000 people registered to vote within 24 hours.

On Thursday, Kanye West entered the Oval Office for a meeting with President Trump, surrounded by a phalanx of reporters. Wearing a MAGA hat, the rapper delivered an enthusiastic if rambling monologue feet from the Resolute desk.

In rough chronological order, Kanye called for prison reform, pitched hard for Adidas, called for abolishing the 13th amendment (which ended slavery), talked about living in the moment and his now-revoked diagnosis of bipolar disorder, proposed replacing Air Force One with a hydrogen plane, took a contrarian view on police violence, slammed liberals for their obsession with racism, supported inner-city manufacturing, endorsed teaching math and basketball at the same time to combat ADD, and mused about running for president himself, but only after Trump is finished.

If Kanye’s comments had been coherent, they would have made great copy. Instead, it was a surreal and sad spectacle — one of the world’s biggest celebrities on an ego bender at best and on the edge of a breakdown at worst.

But Trump seemed to eat up every odd moment. After all, Kayne is the probably most prominent African-American to endorse his presidency since Omarosa left the White House.

Poliwood can make strange bedfellows. Conservatives embrace a rapper while liberals rally around a one-time country music star. And the Kanye-Trump meeting is just the latest example of how celebrities have been used for good and ill by presidents on both sides of the aisle.

One hundred years ago, the first truly national celebrities from the silent movie era — Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks — were dispatched on a national tour to sell war bonds on behalf of the Wilson administration during World War I. (For those of you tempted to Google “war bonds,” I’ll save you a click: it’s how we used to pay for wars before we passed the buck to the next generation).

Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned how to harness the power of someone else’s celebrity in the age of radio and summoned two of the biggest stars of the time– Frank Sinatra and Orson Welles — to perform at political rallies carried over the airwaves. The multifaceted genius of Welles even found time to praise Roosevelt in syndicated newspaper columns and serve as a ghostwriter for his campaign.

Years later the young and telegenic Senator John F. Kennedy drew on pop culture for his campaign, commissioning Sinatra to sing “High Hopes” during the 1960 election. But while JFK’s celebrity friends added to the glamorous aura of Camelot, they were rarely deployed for policy purposes. Kennedy was more focused on the personal benefits that came from hanging out with Marilyn Monroe.

Richard Nixon tried to flip the script for Republicans. He was brilliant but awkward; cold rather than cool. But he agreed to appear on the popular comedy variety show “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” to help cut the ice, gamely repeating the show’s catch phrase “Sock it to me!” He knew that while long-haired, baby-boom celebrities were protesting, he could count on older, establishment figures like Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope and Sammy Davis Jr. to back him.

Then there was the time that Nixon met the King. Elvis Presley wore a purple velvet suit, a massive gold belt and a handgun to the Oval office. He asked to receive, without evident irony, a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. It has been, as of 2015, the most requested photo from the National Archives.

President Jimmy Carter’s rise was aided by early positive profiles by Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson and the evangelical candidate’s surprising admiration for Bob Dylan and the Allman Brothers. Willie Nelson even famously smoked a joint on the roof of the White House after playing a concert for Carter.

But the big daddy of celebrity politics was Ronald Reagan. For all the right-wing fundraising off stereotypes about liberal Hollywood’s hostile takeover of our politics, the only denizen of Hollywood who actually reached the Oval Office was Reagan. His White House attracted old celebrity friends, ranging from Sinatra (again) to Jimmy Stewart. First lady Nancy Reagan even publicized her “Just Say No” to drugs campaign with Mr. T.

And in Reagan’s wake a host of celebrities ran for office as Republicans, from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson to congressman Sonny Bono.

More recently, President George W. Bush developed a lasting friendship with U2 frontman Bono, who played a pivotal role lobbying Congress for the international AIDS drug program known as Pep-Far. It’s often cited as one of that administration’s proudest legacies, saving millions of lives. And President Barack Obama was criticized by Fox News’ Sean Hannity for hobnobbing with Jay-Z.

At its best, Poliwood makes it cool to care, leveraging celebrity to galvanize support for something more important than celebrity. As George Clooney said during his work to bring international attention to the genocide in Darfur and the need to end decades of civil war in South Sudan, “Celebrity can help focus news media where they have abdicated their responsibility. We can’t make policy, but we can ‘encourage’ politicians more than ever before.”

But at its worst, Poliwood can help politicians deflect attention from their own unpopular policies, dumbing down the electorate in the process.

In some ways, President Trump represents the culmination of Poliwood to date. After multiple corporate bankruptcies, the publicity-loving real estate mogul reinvented himself as a reality TV star with “The Apprentice.” In the process, he solidified his place in the American imagination as a decisive executive, eager to say “you’re fired” at the end of every show.

Trump earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and reoriented his business around marketing. He then parlayed his no-nonsense, politically incorrect profile into a successful pitch for the presidency.

But the rush to emulate Trump’s cannonball into the political pool has its limits. “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon was trounced in her energetic attempt to run to the left of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary last month.

Whether Poliwood is a force for good or simply a glittering distraction depends on this question: What’s actually accomplished?

If a celebrity endorsement just benefits a politician looking to boost their profile and prove their cool, then it’s a lame effort to manipulate fans with short attention spans.

Join us on Twitter and Facebook

But if Poliwood draws sustained attention to a real public policy problem, it can serve as a gateway to civic engagement and spur political action.

By that standard, Taylor Swift’s Instagram call to arms ended up having a measurable impact by encouraging voter registration. But the Kayne-Trump summit was a lost opportunity — an attention bath for two boundless egos rather than a serious attempt to raise awareness about prison reform.

The comic-book-loving Kanye and his Presidential pal would do well do recall this bit of advice from Spiderman: With great power comes great responsibility.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/14/opinions/hollywood-and-politics-collide-opinion-avlon/index.html

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[drewsdailydish]

Philadelphia

This past May, my partner graduated with her Masters Degree and I’m so proud of her. My gift to her was to go see Taylor Swift in concert in Philadelphia. She had never seen Miss Swift before, but I’ll make a separate post for the concert!

Anyway, we went to Philadelphia & it was both of our first time there—so we made it a nice little date trip. We drove down Friday. The drive went smoothly, besides circling a few times in Philly to find our hotel, but we finally figure it out!😆

We had a nice dinner at a place near our hotel....it was a beautiful night and we ate outside. Then, we took a nice little walk around the area to end our night. I really liked the area we were in. It was super close to the stadium the concert was in and seemed to be a more business type of area. I felt quite safe there, which is always a worry going to a city you’ve never been in before. We just relaxed the rest of the night. Solid day 1.

Day 2—we woke up pretty early to have breakfast at our hotel, then traveled to downtown to see some historical sites. Obviously, that was right up my alley because I’m a big history buff(hence why I teach it! Haha). We saw Independence Hall first, where our nation was transform from British colonies into an independent & sovereign country. The funny thing about Independence Hall is that a statue of George Washington is in front of it—but He never signed the Declaration of Independence! He was too busy Commanding the Continental Army and fighting the war, no big deal.

Despite this, my experience wasn’t ruined. It was nice to think I was walking the same streets as the Founding Fathers. Although, I don’t hold these gentleman in the highest regard like most citizens do(I may do a post on that in the future, if people end up reading this and asking why. Haha)—it was still cool.

We moved onto the Liberty Bell. My partner really wanted to see this and that was fine by me. On the way there, a street vendor was trying to sell water and stated “Water so cold, it’ll give you brain damage.” Yeah, no thanks pal. Lmao, also—in line for the Liberty Bell, a dude behind me uttered the phrase “He’s world renown in the United States!”😒 This makes no sense, but whatever....you do you, my dude. Well, we got to see the Liberty Bell and took a nice picture in front of it. The exhibit around it had a lot about slavery though. As an educated historian, I found this as a bit of a stretch and contortion of events/significance—But I understand why. People rewrite history the way they want to make it/them look more favorable. Whatever...🤷🏻‍♂️

We then moved on to a bus tour, my partner’s idea. And it was a great one! We picked a few spots to get off at. First, we went to the Reading Terminal Market. It’s a really cool food flea market. We split a cheesesteak(come on, you’re in Philly, it’s a must!) and it was a solid touristy snack! Haha, we also tried some ice cream from a shop in the market and that really hit the spot!! I had chocolate(I’m a chocoholic) & it was yummy!😋

We jumped back on the bus and headed to the Eastern State Penitentiary. My partner really wanted to go to this and we took an audio tour. I was slightly unimpressed, expected a little more...but it was a nice educational experience. Hopefully, that’s the only prison I visit. Hahaha

Our final stop was at the Rocky Statue and steps. This was really the only location I really wanted to go to. We climbed the steps just like the Italian Stallion, took in the moment & a few pictures, and then headed back to our hotel to get ready for the Taylor Swift concert!

It was a beautiful day, a little hot, but not brutal, and a really enjoyable day with my partner. I wouldn’t have wanted it any differently!!

Our drive back home the next day wasn’t too bad....except for having to pay an outrageous $53.70 to go through a toll. We were never given a ticket, never even drove through a toll, until that one and there for had to pay the maximum amount. Totally ridiculous. I plan to dispute it. It did rain hard for a bit on our way out of the city too. But we made it home safely and that’s all that matters! It was a really great getaway and I can’t wait to experience more with my partner!

Here’s to Philly and many more trips!!

Enjoy Yourself(I did)!

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Why can’t Taylor Swift perform her own songs? It’s complicated

(Bloomberg) –When Taylor Swift is named the artist of the decade at the American Music Awards later this month, she may not be able to perform the songs that earned her the prize in the first place.

Swift claims her old record label, Big Machine, is blocking her from performing her biggest hits in public, using an obscure provision in most record contracts that prevents artists from rerecording their music. The dispute has rallied millions of Swift’s fans to her side, and opened a debate about the nature of rerecording provisions.

Generally speaking, the rules aren’t used to prevent artists from performing their own songs.

“It’s never used like that,” said John Seay, an Atlanta-based attorney who represents acts including pop group Of Montreal and rapper Bloody Jay.

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Record labels created the provision to prevent artists from rerecording songs they made for one label and then selling them — without sharing proceeds with the initial label. Labels don’t usually use them to block artists from performing in public because such appearances bring new attention to those songs, thus increasing the value of the original recordings.

In Swift’s case, she is planning on rerecording her songs in the studio, but only when the clause preventing her from doing so expires next year.

Whether Big Machine can block Swift from performing the old songs in the meantime is unclear. “Despite all the coverage of this, I’m not seeing what mechanism a record label can use to stop an artist from performing her songs live if she is not using the masters,” Matt Pincus, a music adviser to LionTree LLC, posted on Twitter.

But Seay says Big Machine may have a case. “Typically, it says you can’t rerecord those for the purpose of making records for anyone else. But records is really broadly defined,” he said.

Swift is doing a documentary with Netflix Inc., and it seems clear that Big Machine has the right to block her old songs from being used in that.

But when it comes to the awards show, is a televised performance a rerecording — or just the equivalent of a concert?

Big Machine has disputed Swift’s version of events, saying that it isn’t stopping her from performing. But it’s not clear if that means she can perform all her songs or just the new ones, which Big Machine doesn’t have the rights to. A representative for the label didn’t respond to a question on that topic.

Instead, Big Machine has framed the dispute around money that Swift owes the label.

“The truth is, Taylor has admitted to contractually owing millions of dollars and multiple assets to our company, which is responsible for 120 hardworking employees who helped build her career,” the label said in a statement.

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Whether or not Big Machine has the right to block Swift, her public plea for support has escalated her fight with her old record label. Swift recorded her first six albums for Big Machine, including “1989,” the biggest record of her career.

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Earlier this year, Swift criticized Big Machine just hours after the company announced it had been acquired by Ithaca Holdings, a company affiliated with music manager Scooter Braun. Braun represents Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber, and is by most measures one of the most powerful figures in the music business. Swift accused Braun and Scott Borchetta, Big Machine’s founder, of blocking her efforts to buy back her music, claims Borchetta rejected.

Swift’s fight with Big Machine has reignited a decades-old debate in music. Most artists don’t own the rights to their recordings. For decades, labels have signed young artists before they were famous, providing upfront capital to support the recording of new music.

When the music is released, the label promotes it, tapping relationships with radio stations, record stores and, now, streaming services. The label recoups its investment and then splits the resulting profits, if there are any, with the musicians.

A handful of artists have protested this system, including Prince, who compared it to slavery. While the internet has made it easier for artists to replicate many label functions on their own, especially promotion, most artists still sign to record labels. Swift, for example, inked a new deal last year with Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company.

But many established artists can demand ownership of their songs, and Swift has those rights under her current deal. Not content to own her future music, Swift has said she will rerecord her old songs as soon as her contract allows it, potentially undermining the value of Big Machine’s best assets.

When she’s free to rerecord those songs, that will open up new questions. Will radio stations and streaming services play the old versions of her hits or the new ones? And what will listeners prefer?

But given the intensity of the dispute, the fight with her old label is likely to come to a head long before that.

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