Complex: ‘Taylor has history of Omitting facts to fit Narrative’

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2 minutes ago, ltlmnstr said:

What woman hasn’t written a song and sang about an ex though?

So are we gonna condemn Taylor for doing what many Hollywood women do?

Elizabeth Taylor, Marylin Monroe, even Madonna splitting from Guy Ritchie was the subject of the song Miles Away.

Are we gonna fault Gaga with Perfect Illusion and You & I? 

perfect illusion is about instagram

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2 minutes ago, PhillipBagshaw said:

It's to back up the type of person that she is. 

But can we not focus on the legality of the situation instead of going to ad hominem attacks involving her love life?

This current situation isn’t about her ex’s 

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55 minutes ago, VoldeLorde2 said:

It’s still unfair to Taylor bc she can no longer make Tour DVDs that include her old songs. She’ll have to pay a royalty to use it and that’s IF Scooter allows her to use the footage of said song. Even if she recorded and wrote those songs in their entirety, start to finish, she can’t use the song bc she signed a contract at 15 bc no adult with morals decided to tell her what she was signing up for. It’s like telling Gaga that she can’t use any of the songs she recorded before 2014 bc she was under management with Troy and he owns those song’s masters. No Poker Face, no Bad Romance, nothing. 

And quite frankly, that’s bullsh*t. I’ve been looking into the situation, and the more I find out, the more angry I get. Taylor’s also been hinting at this since the Reputation era bc she knew that this was gonna happen at some point. She made the right call of signing a new contract with a new label that allows her to own HER music bc it is HER music 

Not true. Scooter only owns the recordings, he doesn't own the songs. If she wants to sing them live she can. Jojo recorded her entire two first albums again because she didn't own her masters and was able to release it.

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I stand by her this time. Before, I didn’t care, but no matter how much Kim ruins her, I’m not falling for them

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She has a history of being dramatic and ultra litigious. She is basically a "Can I Speak To Your Manager" in training. But really, it doesn't matter. Bop to her music if you enjoy it, ignore it if you don't. 

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1 hour ago, VoldeLorde2 said:

It’s still unfair to Taylor bc she can no longer make Tour DVDs that include her old songs. She’ll have to pay a royalty to use it and that’s IF Scooter allows her to use the footage of said song. Even if she recorded and wrote those songs in their entirety, start to finish, she can’t use the song bc she signed a contract at 15 bc no adult with morals decided to tell her what she was signing up for. It’s like telling Gaga that she can’t use any of the songs she recorded before 2014 bc she was under management with Troy and he owns those song’s masters. No Poker Face, no Bad Romance, nothing.  

And quite frankly, that’s bullsh*t. I’ve been looking into the situation, and the more I find out, the more angry I get. Taylor’s also been hinting at this since the Reputation era bc she knew that this was gonna happen at some point. She made the right call of signing a new contract with a new label that allows her to own HER music bc it is HER music  

Ok, I'm sorry but this is just very inaccurate.

First off, Scooter cannot ban her from making Tours with her old songs or recording DVDs with them, he owns THE MASTERS, not the songs themselves. So unless she decided to tour lypsinching to the CD version of her tracks, she is 100% fine in that regard.

Secondly, this didn't happen because "she was an innocent girl who signed a terrible contract", because a) There HAD to be an adult to sign with her b) There had to be lawyers involved c) Not owning your masters has been standard inside the industry for decades. I agree, it is a bad standard, but  a lot of big names who signed their deals at a much older age are under the same type of contract, she wasn't "taken advantage of" because of her age or ingenuity, at least not in this case.

I do feel sorry that Taylor didn't get to buy her masters, but stans are letting their love for their fave make it seem like this is going to change her career dramatically for the worse, which it won't.

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1 hour ago, FATCAT said:

Well she just pissed him off with all this mess. She made it worse..

That's no excuse, he kept going.

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1 hour ago, PhillipBagshaw said:

It's to back up the type of person that she is. 

She is narcissistic...look it up, 

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She seems like a manipulative person. It’s sad, she doesn’t need to be this way. 

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Wow, I didn't know half of these. What an icon. She's truly the goddess of victimization.

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and that’s what an attention seeker deserves

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Lol I love how Taylor keeps winning. They hit once, they get hit back 10 times. At this point, they can defame her all they want, if reputation taught me anything about Ms.Swift is that she is resilient af and her fans are loyal af and that in itself is one for the history books 

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2 hours ago, ltlmnstr said:

What woman hasn’t written a song and sang about an ex though?

So are we gonna condemn Taylor for doing what many Hollywood women do?

Elizabeth Taylor, Marylin Monroe, even Madonna splitting from Guy Ritchie was the subject of the song Miles Away.

Are we gonna fault Gaga with Perfect Illusion and You & I? 

But not everybody writes mean songs about their exes where they victimize themselves.

Gurl, Don't compare Gaga with her. 

And about Perfect Illusion... What? she didn't use her split to promote the song. You don't even know about who it is. 

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3 hours ago, Kimmo said:

Taylor Swift Has a Long History of Omitting Facts to Fit Her Own Narrative

Once again, Taylor Swift is making headlines for a conflict with someone in the music industry who she says has wronged her. But for some Taylor Swift fans, like myself, it is starting to feel a bit like Groundhog Day.

—The first notable example in 2008, Swift made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and painted a picture of the Jonas Brothers star as a ruthless heartbreaker.  “When I find the right person, I'm not going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over in 25 seconds when I was 18,” she told Ellen.

Jonas later pointed out, the phone call was only that short because Swift hung up on him while he was trying his best to end things amicably. Ironically, Swift finally made a public apology to Jonas about putting him on blast all those years ago during her latest appearance on Ellen last month. She blamed it on her youth, but unfortunately, it was just the first of many public disputes.

—In 2014, Swift released her single, “Bad Blood,” and fans put together the pieces that it was about fellow pop star Katy Perry. The pair's long-running fallout began because Swift thought Perry was trying to sabotage her Red concerts and stole backing dancers. Perry went on to say this was not the case, and the dancers had originally been on tour with her, but began working with Swift while Perry was focused on making new music. Perry claims that Swift refused to discuss the issue with her. Before long, two of pop’s biggest stars were trading insults through songs and music videos, as Swift flaunted her star-studded 'You Can't Sit With Us' girl squad.

—In 2015, Nicki Minaj tweeted her frustrations about missing out on nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards, which prompted Swift to leap into defensive mode after assuming the tweets had been aimed at her. “@NICKIMINAJ I've done nothing but love & support you. It's unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot,” Swift tweeted in response. She was quickly put in her place by Minaj and fans who made it clear that the tweets were about a bigger issue within the music industry, and they had nothing to do with the singer. Swift apologized, and glossed it all over by inviting Nicki on stage with her, but the incident caused many to wonder what her true motives were during situations like this.

— In 2016, Swift's relationship with Calvin Harris came to a sudden and bitter end. Swift moved on to Tom Hiddleston within weeks, but she couldn't entirely drop the beef she seemed to have with her ex. The pair had secretly worked together on his smash hit, “This Is What You Came For,” and the song had been written by Swift under the pseudonym Nils Sjoberg. They keept their teamwork secret, but Swift changed her mind after Harris did an interview saying he couldn't see himself working with her on music. Swift’s team reportedly leaked the information about the song to tabloids, and she was portrayed as a victim who was disrespected by her man. In response, Harris tweeted, “Hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage though... I figure if you're happy in your new relationship you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex bf down for something to do.”...“I know you're off tour and you need someone new to try and bury like Katy ETC, but I'm not that guy, sorry. I won't allow it.”

—In 2016, Kanye West felt like he could mention her in the lyrics to his 2016 hit, “Famous.” The song includes the line, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that bitch famous,” West insisted that he received Swift's approval for the lyric, but her camp told People, “Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single ‘Famous’ on her Twitter account. She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that bitch famous.’” But Kim Kardashian claimed she had a recording of ’Ye and Swift's phone call, and released it. Proving that West and Swift did talk about her name being mention in the song, the video revealed that Taylor even gave him her approval to rap about them having sex one day. The video failed to confirm whether Swift knew he would refer to her as “that bitch,” and she insisted that she never knew the word “bitch” was going to be part of the lyrics. But the question remains: Why didn't she just say West had called, but he hadn't played her the full track? Why lie entirely and claim he never contacted her when she knew he had? Why was she continuing to omit certain details from these disputes to fit her narrative?

Just weeks ago, we saw Swift make peace with Katy Perry at the end of the music video for her new single, “You Need to Calm Down.” In that moment, many of us let ourselves believe that Swift had grown up and become a wise 29-year-old who had outgrown the need to bend the truth and play victim. Unfortunately, it looks like she still has a long way to go.

https://www.complex.com/music/2019/07/taylor-swift-history-omitting-facts-fit-her-narrative

The moment I knew she was fake.  I have no sympathy for her at all.  She's not fooling me.

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2 hours ago, AlvariusFlame said:

But not everybody writes mean songs about their exes where they victimize themselves.

Gurl, Don't compare Gaga with her. 

And about Perfect Illusion... What? she didn't use her split to promote the song. You don't even know about who it is. 

“Mean” is subjective to the person listening to the song.

Since a woman expressing herself is now all of a sudden “mean” I have to laugh

Gaga wrote Judas about an ex. Many women wrote about their exes. Carrie Underwood wrote about busting up her exes car. Guess that wasn’t “mean” right?

If we’re taking that route that writing any song about your ex is “victimizing yourself” let us all not believe any people when they say they had a bad ex because we don’t hear the ex’s side of the relationship.

I’m not comparing Gaga to Taylor. This isn’t a stan war. The media, Complex, is pushing the narrative that Taylor is some demented ex about a situation about Property Rights. 

Property Rights have nothing to do with love life, period.