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Found this when looking at comic book covers for April Fool's. Thought it was funny.

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Okay, this is cool : All royalties made from the release of "Elizabeth Taylor" will go to Elizabeth Taylor's AIDS Foundation.

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Much to the presumed chagrin of stvn, there is a dedicated violet vinyl single released for the song.

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That's a nice vinyl !!!

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Just because this thread popped up, she’s being sued for trademark infringement.

https://abcnews.com/amp/GMA/Culture/...y?id=131584343

I’m not sure how the “ [___]of a Showgirl” got the trademark in the first place. It seems generic something of a something and I think I’ve heard it before.

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It's a pretty common name... not sure how she got it either.

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Assuming this is accurate... it's gonna tank her case.

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NYT just released a 30 minute video interview with Taylor. I plan to watch it at lunch time today.

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Okay, watched the whole half-hour interview. It's all about her songwriting. She's so cerebral about songwriting. Very interesting to get her insights on many of her songs, and a look into the techniques she uses to write.
Fascinating stuff!

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Taylor Swift just made hundreds of millions of dollars for other Universal Music Group artists, most she's never even met.

Explained better below :

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion.

Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday. Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab.

Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too.

Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this. Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

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She has a countdown on her website the background matches Toy Story, so she likely has a song in it?

Or a role?

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A song would be cool. You know she has EGOT fever and wants that Oscar (and probably an Emmy for her D+ documentary series).

That song in CATS didn't work out like she planned.

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She really is queen of the Easter Eggs, isn't she?
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