Guitarist REACTS to Taylor Swift's Legal Issues
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- This week we're doing a BONUS episode, where I watch the Legal Eagle breakdown of Taylor Swift's legal struggles. I also watched MIss Americana this week, but that reaction will be out next week! So enjoy this for now, it was recorded in October, and I will see you all next week. Happy Turkey Day!
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Taylor actually got a LOT of hate about about her bad rhythm / execution of dance moves. That's one of the reasons for her writing "Shake It Off". She has improved a lot these past few years.
A point not stressed here is that if someone wants to license her music they won't really have a choice (as was mentioned) on which version to use. Taylor has the songwriter right, so she can and HAS blocked permissions on all the recordings owned by Big Machine. She has been denying licenses even if it means she also loses that income, just to make a point and not allow Scooter from profiting on her work. If someone want to license her music, she will only permit the use of Taylor's Versions. Scooter made a post making fun of how he "own Taylor Swift," not her music, but he didn't count on her having the integrity to not comply even if it cost her money and time. She's a boss.
@Goddess He actually sold the masters to someone else pretty quickly, but she's continuing with the re-records to prove a point. There were also articles recently that Scooter told the new buyer she was bluffing about re-recording, to persuade them to buy it.
@@lilmissmalloryy he sold it but he would still get money from the company after the sale, which is why Taylor wouldn't work with the group. They thought as long as he wasnt the owner she'd work with them, but scooter would still be making money off her so she told them no.
He was so sure he’d have the rights to her music
Taylor also fought for fair payment to artists on Apple Music, cause they wouldn’t pay artists during the free period and Spotify. She even took her music out of Spotify in 2014 and just returned to the platform in 2017.
When she did that I wasn't even a fan and I remember she was being called greedy and got so much hate! People are crazy
@@Anna13Tonks I think what people don’t realize is that bigger artists like Taylor probably wouldn’t be affected much with not getting paid by Apple & Spotify streams but many smaller artists would reap the benefits. So props to her for standing up for others.
What makes it a worse betrayal to Taylor from Borchetta is she was the first signing to his company and was on the journey before it was even created. Before Taylor was ever signed to Big Machine she earned a development deal with RCA which is why her family moved to Tennessee. At contract renewal she opted to leave since they wouldn't let her write her own songs. After, she became the youngest person to be signed to a publishing deal with Sony/ATV. Again at contract renewal she walked away as they wouldn't let her release music until she was 18 or write all her own songs. At 14 years old she was courting Universal when Scott Borchetta, who worked there, went to see her at The Bluebird Café and told her he could help her get signed with Universal or he could guarantee she could write her own songs if she took a chance on a label he was planning on creating after his Universal contract was up (if I remember correctly 6 months was left). She called him a week later herself saying she would wait for him. Then Borchetta, her, and some others would have weekly secret meetings discussing the label's creation. Someone Borchetta worked under gave him the green light to leave a few months early, so he called everyone up and told them. Then, he got the label running and signed Swift first, who was 15 at the time. Borchetta named the company Big Machine to be ironic, as at the time they had 15 employees and no furniture. Thus, even though you can't trust anyone in business, it was extra hurtful when Borchetta, who'd known her half her life, made skits in vlogs with her, danced at awards shows with her, etc, sold her masters to one of only a handful of people she dislikes.
Thanks for the back story. I for one, had no idea.
I just want to add it was more than dislike. Scooter was deeply tied in with Kanye who has bullied and tried to ruin her career since she was 19 for no reason. Scooter was a straight up enemy. And the reason she walked away from Big Machine was because she knew Scott was going to sell the label and she wouldn't have her bargaining power. He offered her the option to "buy" her masters one at a time as she created new albums. For each new album, which he would then have the rights to, he would give her the rights to an old album. She recognized that there was literally no way for her to own all of her music that way and decided to make the leap.
When you talked about greed I immediately thought of lyrics Taylor wrote about this whole situation in her song it's time to go :
Fifteen years, fifteen million tears
Begging 'til my knees bled
I gave it my all, he gave me nothing at all
Then wondered why I left
Now he sits on his throne in his palace of bones
Praying to his greed
He's got my past frozen behind glass
But I've got me
Underrated song!
Woah. This song is gonna hit differently now.
What song are those lyrics from?
@@daliavg1 it’s time to go. It’s a bonustrack on Evermore
@@daliavg1 it's time to go - evermore
It’s not just that she didn’t wanted to sign again with big machine, but she wanted to purchase her masters and own the new ones, but they said she could only regain the rights of each old album after each new one she launched, so she probably would take like another 10, 15 years to be able to regain the rights to all her albums, while being attached to big machine these entire time. And when they saw she wouldn’t accept this deal, instead of offering her the masters for money they decided to sell it to another person. It wasn’t about the money because she could afford it, they chose to sell it to scooter in order to affect her
Yes this!
Wow, sounds like they wanted total control over her and then punished her for not doing what they wanted.
I’m glad she didn’t give in to them.
Very exited for all re-recordings. She did Fearless and this month she re-released Red. Both albums are amazing plus there are vault songs as she calls them. Those are never heard songs from that era of her life. This is a very smart decision and super exciting for the fans to hear the new (old) songs.
Taylor is adding even more value to here new versions by adding vault songs...Take her album Red for example. The original had 16 tracks, the extended version had 22 and the one she owns Red Taylors version has 30 tracks. So Taylor isnt just releasing the album in its original state but adding to it adding even more incentive to buy her rerecorded stuff. You should check out her 10 minute version of All too well, it broke the record for longest song to hit number 1 on the billboard 100 (Previous holder was American pie by Don Mclean) Don Mclean took Taylor breaking his record with grace saying "Let’s face it, nobody ever wants to lose that #1 spot, but if I had to lose it to somebody, I sure am glad it was another great singer/songwriter such as Taylor." Classy
She has now got at least 2 more fans. We are much older than Taylor, but with all the publicity, started to look at her work & listen to her being interviewed. She is simply a phenomenon. Smart, super talented, versatile. The more we learn, the more impressed we are. Very late to discover her, now committed Swifties!
Loved the video! Although, I think it's pretty unfair of you to say that Taylor solidified beauty standards and having to be good at everything, that's just something that, as she says in Miss Americana, is sadly a necessity for women artists and she just played the game in order not to become irrelevant. For a male pop artist the same outfit and a guitar are enough to be successful, but for women they need to dance and do crazy moves (see not only how people mocked Taylor for not being able to dance but also Dua Lipa, the bullying got so harsh at some point that she took several dance lessons for her next album and although the results are amazing -see Dua Lipa's Grammys performance- the way she had to get there is really sad. Nobody would bully Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles or Justin Bieber into learning how to dance because for them grabbing a guitar or a microphone and walking around the stage is enough but for women artists they have to be crazy dancers too). Women also have to reinvent themselves a lot more, Justin and Ed have been doing the same thing for years and the public still eats it up but female artists who fail to keep the public interested in them eventually fade out (see Katy Perry)
Agree with this 100% - if a female pop artist can’t dance or doesn’t fit the exact body ideals of the time, she is vilified for it. Taylor had a very severe eating disorder for years because of the beauty standards forced upon her by the entertainment industry. Don’t blame women, blame the misogynistic and stifling society they have to live in…
Yeah, about being a "whole package" kind of performer, I'd say it was brought a lot more by artists who came before her, like Britney, Janet Jackson or Beyonce, in the late 90s, or early 2000s... especially considering how late in her career she went to pop and started doing less performances where she just sang and played an instrument (in 2014, when the aforementioned artists were pretty established already)
I think Madonna solidified the magic of pop musician reinventing themselves every album
Agree, I was gonna say, it was not Taylor who solidified it (I am saying this especially since this is the 2nd time you kinda make the same type of comment about her perpetuating it), it was the industry, the fact that she HAPPENS to be a naturally pretty person or a naturally thin person does not mean that she is condoning the behavior or the standard, otherwise, you are kinda saying that for her to show her opposition to the standard she has to what? gain tons of weight just 'cuz or do something to her face? she has NEVER said, "this is what beauty should be" unlike some other people who shall not be named (KK and family) that based their entire "career" on being or creating the modern standard of beauty.
Now if you mean unwittingly, sure I could totally see your point BUT once again it was never her saying "this is how you NEED to look like" it is how the INDUSTRY USED her as the poster child. and I believe that is why she addressed it in the documentary to show that EVEN she who WAS considered the standard had an eating disorder because of THAT pressure.
Said Beautyfully ❤️❤️
As a swiftie, it’s almost a cathartic experience removing her old records from my music library
Totally
seriously, I am waiting on 1989 and Rep and I will never look back after it
I removed 1989 in my Spotify playlist and blocked her old songs. It physically hurts coz 1989 is one of fave albums she's released.
I’d actually push back on the idea that she’s solidified the classic idea of a pop star. I think in a lot of ways she did the opposite. Part of what I connected to with her from the beginning of her career when we were both teens is that she’s never really prioritized sexiness or coolness. Not that she’s never any of those things or she thinks those things are bad but it’s just not at the forefront of what she does. Even in her ~sexiest~ era (1989) there was public obsession with the fact that she never showed her bellybutton. I’d also point out that Taylor has really created the expectation now that current pop stars write their own music or co write their music (or at the very least pretend to 👀) which was not the case previously. Now it’s an expectation and something the public is interested in knowing and that pop stars want known. Some pop stars have in the past of course, but it wasn’t a focus of their career or emphasized in the press like Mariah Carey for example who wrote all of her huge hits but I think only started getting her due as a songwriter later in her career.
Taylor can also block companies from using the OG versions because she gives the final say, so none of her music will be used unless it is her version. That’s why you didn’t hear Taylor songs in commercials or shows over the last few years. They are just now starting to pop up again
Yes swifties always focus on streaming Taylor version. She has a massive fan base
The red re-recording is already breaking records. For a ten year old album we already heard this is incredible. Don’t underestimate Swifties or blondie
She’s been so great to the fans that we’ve stuck by her and both re-recorded albums have gone #1 which is unheard of. Adding vault tracks, songs she originally wrote for the album but got blocked, mostly by half of the asshole fest from the video is a great incentive as well.
Her most beloved song, “All Too Well” finally got to see the light of day as she wrote it and now holds the Guinness record for longest song ever to chart #1. She is the moment and I’m so glad to be on this ride, cannot wait to see how she does with the other re-recordings and super excited for her new original music.
11:22 it’s called blackmail. They where trying to force her to agree with their demands, to sign a new contract or only be able to purchase her masters from scooter if she agreed to never say anything bad about him ever again
The worst part for me it was the fact that Taylor saw Scott Borchetta (Big Machine Records) as a father figured and said so many times that, and he just fucked their relationship over money. My tears Ricochet, tells you how hurt she is about all of it.
i dont think it was about the money since she definitely could've afforded it. Borchetta wanted to get back at her for leaving Big Machine
@@seven9833 Before she left, she begged him for years to let her buy it. He gave her an option: to every new album she released she’d get ownership of one older back, Taylor didn’t accept and decided to leave her past behind to not compromise her future. That’s why she left. So when he sold it to Scooter B, that was for pettiness, but he had the option before to let her buy it, but he didn’t because of money.
And what will hurt them even more is big streaming company and radio stations are saying they will only use the Taylor Version Iheart radio just announced this last week
As I've learned over the last couple days apparently the value of her original Masters has not gone down all that much as the act of putting out the re-recordings has caused a surge in the listening of the older recordings so that they can be compared and I think down the line that will decrease as her new versions become the mainstay. Also streaming services are appearing to take her side as I heart radio has stated anytime she releases re-recording they will only play the new versions if she can get other streaming services to do the same thing in the original Masters value will plummet to nothing
she just released Red TV and it holds the fastest first week selling vinyl ever 114k before it was held by her own album evermore. it’s crazy THAT a RE-RECORDED album holds that record. and now she hold the longest number one to ever debut at the #1 spot on hot 100 with 10:13.
LONG LIVE TAYLOR'S VERSION
The re-recordings are SO GOOD! We also don’t know what’s coming next… it’s like a game trying to figure it out 😂
about what you said at the end how she solidifies things like you have to be beautify and a good dancer: she can't do anything about being pretty lol but she is NOT a born dancer. A lot of people actually made fun of her because she dances to have fun and not to look "cool". The live performances are just choreography and kind of like a part of her response to people saying that she can't do it. She likes to just jam out to songs like a normal person. Also shake it off whole video is about how it's okay to not be good at stuff and be different as log as you're having fun and being yourself. Another thing is that before highshool she used to be "that weird kid who writes songs" and she was an outcast so it's like she knows both sides.
In conclusion: to a fan it's more like she in encouraging everyone to be comfortable in their own skin, she's making fun of those who are "too cool for school", and her advise is to find people who appreciate how weird as you are and love you for that.
I agree. In addition, the music industry has been selecting the "whole package" for years before TS came along.
Did you know she made Apple music Change their Policies
23:40 Taylor actually talked about that in her Miss Americana documentary.
It is funny seeing you being suprised watching old clips of Taylor, she looks so different in every era hahaha. The ones that you were surprised by are from her Reputation album, if you think that she looks different from Folklore Taylor then you will be even more shocked by how different her music sounds lol.
This was SO interesting to watch from your perspective, as a musician
Another smart thing she did to incentivize people to buy or stream the new version of her old albums is by adding new tracks "from the vault" (unreleased songs she had recorded at the time she made those albums that didn't fit originally) so we get a glimpse of some of her unreleased music from the past! On her rerecorded version of her album "Red" she added 10 new songs which is like the size of a whole new album, which is awesome and definitely contributed to why this rerecorded album broke records and hit number one on the charts!
I’m so glad that Taylor Swift got her life’s work back. She’s got one of the best catalogs in music.
Taylor’s entire point here is that artists should own their own music and not record labels. The artist and their team should reap most of the benefits of their work. After her re-recordings, Taylor hopes that young and emerging artists would wise up and demand better and more equal compensation for their work.
Thank you sm for giving us this vid! You're so generous truly
Hope you had a great thanksgiving! So glad you're doing a video on this!! Now songs like my tears ricochet, it's time to go, mad woman, etc. will hit different haha! Also excited for possible reactions to the new re-recordings, especially all the new vault tracks! Reminder: if you're streaming, only stream the (Taylor's Version) of the albums that have been re-recorded, but of course if you have the older albums on cd or vinyl of course you can listen to those! Love all the videos, can't wait to see what's next!
I feel like the rerecordings are even better. With age and experience, her voice has gotten stronger.
it's SO interesting to see you (a person that works inside the music industry and deals with this terminology and issues regularly) watch his video
I never expect this.. But tysm for this 😭💖💖
Taylor Swift is the music industry
Here before 400 views! This is interesting and I can't wait for her to finish the rerecordings!! 🤗💅✨
I'm glad to hear you reacted to Miss Americana and that it's gonna be uploaded in a couple of days cuz at the end of this video you mentioned that Taylor is always dressing up to look beautiful and that's not actually the case. She does dress up for events but when it comes to music videos or performing she's ALWAYS playing the part to get her point across. Which by now you probably know since you said you've already watched Miss Americana. You have an understanding of why she has to dress up, aka reinventing herself, when performing whether that be on stage at a show/concert or for a music video. Can't wait to hear your thoughts for that reaction. Once again, thank you Andy. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. PEACE!
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Her new recordings are AMAZING!!
She is so smart to have unreleased songs on the rerecordings. Its great for the fans and creates so much excitement for them
Thank you for making these videos... 😊
Thank you so much for this reaction
"we're friends...we have earth-tone homes" STOP IM LAUGHING SO MUCH ✋🏻😭
I cried 😂😂😂
Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta suck. Taylor signed with Big Machine when she was 14 or 15 and no other company wanted to sign her because they said she was too young.
Her only album I purchased back in the day was 1989 and I felt so proud and happy to purchase her version on vinyl. 23:16
I would LOVE to see her with her own record label. She would really make a HUGE impact that way! Even bigger than the already MASSIVE impact she has now.
I think one thing about it that really helps this diluted value thing, people who grew up with albums is they likely already own copies(digital or physical) are the ones most likely to feel connected with the original masters, but they can easily just stream the new ones and listen to the old ones on their existing copies. So the only people buying the old ones are a small subgroup of people that don’t know what’s going on or just don’t care. But for the most part she’s destroyed the value of the masters.
She pushed new artists to write their own music and be more involved in the music process instead of just singing other peoples songs. Taylor is the biggest artist championing fair compensation and ensuring streaming companies are paying the artists more for their songs being streamed. Her billboard women of the year speeches really shows an insight into where she stands with the music industry.
Love that this channel is becoming a Taylor Swift channel subbed
A small percentage of the population who are huge fans of her can tell the difference! Very smart of her to re- record her music! I am not really a fan of her music, but kudos to her for not letting the industry steal from her!!
Clear Channel radio told her that as her versions were released they’d play those going forward which is think is very cool and classy 19:06
It's unfortunate how many young artists major record labels have taken advantage of, many who didn't fully understand what they were signing and what they were giving up when they are signing their original contracts. I know many artists who have no control over how they are marketed and their own image because many record deals have an image clause that they use to trap them and pressure them into doing what they want.
It's more about doing things they said she couldn't do. They said she couldn't sing pop, they said she couldn't dance. They said she couldn't fill a stadium.
Never tell a Sagittarius they can't because they will use your words as fuel and surpass expectations.
I love how the masters 🛴 owns are colloquially labelled as the Stolen Version
As soon as she releases we remove her old music from our phones ..(Spotify,iTunes n stuff ) and stream only Taylor's version..
This thumbnail is very much hilarious sir
Taylor has since stated the reason she left big machine was because she said she knew there were whispers Scott was going to sell big machine once she resigned which would make the label more valuable. She said she considered staying still if she was afforded the right to at least bid for her masters, and Scott instead informed her that he would allow her the very special privilege of EARNING one old album back, for each new one she was willing to record for big machine, essentially trapping her in an endless cycle of servitude.
She definitely sounds better on the rerecording, but somehow I think the production on the new one is a little bit different due to different producers.
Her voice has also developed and her singing improved so much since she was 20
Team Taylor always!!!!!!!
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Taylor swift is the last person who'd say you have to be an incredible dancer, she's actually very bad at dancing😭😭
@@sophiastone3437 Exactly! She does a little bit of choreo, but it's not the biggest priority in her performances...
@@sophiastone3437 ik I'm a swiftie lol
No one should make more money off of someone's art than that artist. Whether that's the singer, band, songwriter, no one should be allowed to leech off of artists that much.
Remember when Taylor pulled her songs from Spotify until they made their terms fairer for ALL artists? Girl got power moves. 👊
This video got me looking up how to get a Patreon
Scott,Scooter,Kim’Kanye’Justin.Demi and to all who crossed Tay
Karma is real
You nailed it.
she also had a very good producer to work on her new versions.
I cackled at 15:18 😂😂😂 great sense of humor
Hi, Andy! I'm re-watching all your videos and noticing that I never "liked" the videos the first time I watched them. So, I'm "liking" them now as I re-watch. Somehow I think this fits the re-recording theme, but in a weird way. DOES ANY OF THIS MAKE ANY SENSE??? Help.
I'm a swiftie and the new one is better cause her voice is more mature and stable so the Taylor's version is waaaay better
iconic thumbnail
He manages Demi Lovato too
Demi defended ‘he who must not be named’ and attack Taylor
What kind of name is Scooter? Is it a nickname?🤔
Can you react to Taylor Swift All Too Well song and All Too Well short film it is written and directed by Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift is the music industry.
Also, Scooter and Scott should have known better. She's savage in some of her breakup songs. She never names names but you can see the Easter eggs in many videos. For example in "The Man" there's a "no scooter" sign in the background.
Its time to go, a bonus track on evermore is great to listen to after this
I'm not an expert on this but whoever owns Taylor Swifts masters, wouldn't now be a good time to come to a deal and sell them to her?
they reached out to her but, Scooter Braun is still affiliated with them -- so, Taylor declined working with them because it would still profit HIM. She published the letter she sent to them in a response - you can find it on the internet.
I mean just look at how successful red re-record was. Over Half a million album sales first week and a 10 minute #1 global hit. It’s crazy. She is the only person to have a re-record at #1, and she has 2 of them now. She is quickly approaching Elvis Presley for 2nd most weeks at number one. Last year she passed Michael Jackson to be in third.
React to fearless and red taylors version
Scooter Brown sold TS a year ago and got his money plus some back....you failed to mention that.
The American music industry isn’t fair but the Kpop music industry is brutal
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Props to Taylor for beating the big guys. However, this only worked for her because the was the writer of her material. If she was just the singer she would have been up a creek.
One of her most brilliant moves is that she has forced people to work with her. She has denied licensing to anyone to use her music unless they use her new recordings. She actually doesn't have the right to rerecord REPUTATION yet because it hasn't been long enough. There was a show that she was a big fan of that wanted to use one of the songs off of Reputation so she had her brother and best friend/producer Jack Antanoff make a "cover" of the song under a suedonym band name. Since a cover does not involve using the master recording the label couldn't block her as she had been doing them. She was able to sell one of her songs without giving Braun a dime. She also let Olivia Rodrigo interpolate parts of one of the songs off that album so that they wouldn't make any money again. She has out smarted them at every turn.
No Scooters Allowed
But taylor isn't an in credible dancer😂 she's a bit awkward but that's why I love her!!!!! She's so uniquely quirky and endearingly relatable❤❤
Na he’s divorced..and look where taytay right now?Staying on top…and karma’s everywhere to those people bully taylor since the beginning of her career..
Scooter Braun is such a Seinfeld character name lol
It baffles me that an artist can write, perform, and record a song, and then lose all rights to it--and that's normal and accepted.
YES! Greed absolutely ruins everything. (Said here on a media platform that makes you watch commercials before everything you click on--no matter how short.)
I kept responding to you talking over the vid by saying SHUT UP!!
Looking for original link.
“Rick James had issues” is one of the biggest understatements I’ve ever heard. I mean he was jailed for false imprisonment and sexual assaults. Let’s not make any type of excuse for the guy!
This is such a good way to ruin their company too. Young artists would know Taylor Swift and hopefully not sign with this company ever
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Andrew roasting 🛴 is such a mood.. ✌
And yes, we the fans are on a collective mission to make the re-recordings successful. 2 down and both are doing extremely well, 4 to go.