Taylor Swift Finally Owns Her Masters

[cmiley]

Need I say more?

[Main Pop Girl]

I can't believe she actually had people fooled with this whole scam  Swifties dumb as hell

[Crystal <3]

5 hours ago, Main Pop Girl said:

I can't believe she actually had people fooled with this whole scam  Swifties dumb as hell

Calling a swiftie dumb is like finding a fork in the kitchen (no shade to the swifties on this site because I should hope y'all aren't amongst the many parasocial freaks lmao)

But honestly, shes been owning a portion of royalties of her first 6 albums even if it wasn't 100%. I will say some re-recording such as Red and Fearless are far more polished compared to their original formats and then speak now is on an equal level, but 1989 was rushed as hell and discarding speak now tv promo for 1989 was a mess. i only listened to 1989 tv once and never came back, might relisten to the vault tracks though, but good for her that she owns her entire catalogue now like everyone else should though i guess. 

[Main Pop Girl]

6 minutes ago, Crystal &lt;3 said:

Calling a swiftie dumb is like finding a fork in the kitchen (no shade to the swifties on this site because I should hope y'all aren't amongst the many parasocial freaks lmao)

[Crystal <3]

1 hour ago, Main Pop Girl said:

did i lie?

[CUNTISSIMO]

13 hours ago, Main Pop Girl said:

I can't believe she actually had people fooled with this whole scam  Swifties dumb as hell

No shit; I respect her business savvy, but the continued cash grabbing from her fans has been something else... now she'll be making money, twice as much, off of both the original and "Taylor's version" editions. It is bullshit. I get wanting to own her masters, but the money she and the musicians made off of the original releases is more than anyone could have even imagined; this wasn't a JoJo situation. This was "I want more" situation.

[Crystal <3]

26 minutes ago, CUNTISSIMO said:

No shit; I respect her business savvy, but the continued cash grabbing from her fans has been something else... now she'll be making money, twice as much, off of both the original and "Taylor's version" editions. It is bullshit. I get wanting to own her masters, but the money she and the musicians made off of the original releases is more than anyone could have even imagined; this wasn't a JoJo situation. This was "I want more" situation.

this! i think it became very clear around speak now tv/1989 tv, at least to me anyway especially around 1989. thats why ttpd was so shit because she cares more about how high she is on the charts and how much she'll make from it and 234543 variants instead of creating decent quality music, it's become pretentious atp

[Main Pop Girl]

41 minutes ago, CUNTISSIMO said:

No shit; I respect her business savvy, but the continued cash grabbing from her fans has been something else... now she'll be making money, twice as much, off of both the original and "Taylor's version" editions. It is bullshit. I get wanting to own her masters, but the money she and the musicians made off of the original releases is more than anyone could have even imagined; this wasn't a JoJo situation. This was "I want more" situation.

Yeah, people need to stop comparing Taylor to JoJo. JoJo sued her label because she was blocked from releasing music and she re-recorded her songs because they refused to upload them to streaming. It's not the same thing as just expecting someone to give you your masters and throwing a tantrum when they don't

[CUNTISSIMO]

2 hours ago, Main Pop Girl said:

Yeah, people need to stop comparing Taylor to JoJo. JoJo sued her label because she was blocked from releasing music and she re-recorded her songs because they refused to upload them to streaming. It's not the same thing as just expecting someone to give you your masters and throwing a tantrum when they don't

100%, plus JoJo re-recorded them so the musicians could earn the proper residuals Blackground was cockblocking them from because of their piss-poor contracts and business practices. She had to re-record them to benefit from them. Taylor, on the other hand, did not need to re-record anything. Millions of millions of dollars she, the writers, the producers, etc., all earned in those original releases; millions more than so many others could dream of.

I don't give a freakin' frank fuck if Taylor hates Scooter Braun or not, but that's also no reason to cry over this. If it were truly about owning her masters (as she's claimed), then she could have re-recorded, sent to digital streamers, and called it again. Instead, she produced physical packaging, multiple re-issues, and cashed in on her fans, knowing they're moronic enough to buy multiples of every single damn variant.

And I take comfort in knowing that, as of January 2024, the "Taylor's version" of Fearless, Red, and Speak Now hadn't even hit $1M in sales in the States.

3 hours ago, Crystal &lt;3 said:

this! i think it became very clear around speak now tv/1989 tv, at least to me anyway especially around 1989. thats why ttpd was so shit because she cares more about how high she is on the charts and how much she'll make from it and 234543 variants instead of creating decent quality music, it's become pretentious atp

Look, I'm not someone to sit here and say, "Well, you should be doing XYZ with your craft over ABC," because that's disingenuous, and I hate when others do it. I may suggest what I'd like, but, yeah... in return, Braun (via Big Machine) only owned the masters for 16 or so months before selling them to Shamrock Holdings, and still then, she was pissed about it and refuted their offers.

It's all a scheme; again, I respect Taylor as a businessperson in how she announces her work and everything she does put into it, but these re-recordings have never sat right with me from day one.

[catsgalore21]

As she should.

Should've been this way since the beginning.

[Chris]

Why are people hating on her? Isn't it a good thing for any artist to own their masters?

[holdyourhand]

On 5/31/2025 at 4:33 AM, Main Pop Girl said:

I can't believe she actually had people fooled with this whole scam  Swifties dumb as hell

Agree. "Stans", for Madonna, Britney, Mariah, Gaga or whatever, are all idiots. Fools and their money. I bet they believe "Taylor" is their friend.

[Crystal <3]

2 hours ago, holdyourhand said:

I bet they believe "Taylor" is their friend.

as i said in one of my previous post, "parasocial freaks" basically sums this up.

[Main Pop Girl]

On 6/1/2025 at 2:00 PM, Chris said:

Why are people hating on her? Isn't it a good thing for any artist to own their masters?

I guess I can respect it from a business perspective. It's more just the way she manipulates her fanbases emotions for financial gain that irritates me. It's so tacky and scheming imo