Something doesn’t feel right with this. I feel like we’re getting half truths from both sides.
And Taylor’s drama queen history doesn’t do her any favours especially when her industry friends are keeping quite.
it feels a bit weird right now. Maybe I haven’t looked into it all enough
Many of them probably fear the repercussions of talking out, as even someone as big as Taylor is getting
tit for this. Unlike the Kanye situation, all of her statements will definitely have been run by her lawyers. This is a legal situation and her lawyers would have had to have "okayed" the statements. Her lawyer is Donald Passman, one of the most well-respected lawyers in the music industry.
I honestly think they're just trying to have the last control over her that they can have. She was BM's cashcow and she is no longer with them. The last thing they can grasp on to is her masters. She is going to rerecord them next year so the originals will lose their value. They said to her "you can only perform your old songs if you don't rerecord them." That is blackmail.
The same thing happened with Prince's masters and also Michael Jackson bought The Beatle's masters years ago. There were huge battles over it. Prince went and changed his performing name so that he could perform his OWN music.
Taylor's masters are valued at more than $300 million, of course, they don't want her to rerecord.
Thoughts on Beautiful Ghosts? I love it. The lyrics are classic Taylor. And I am big fan of musicals.
My favourite lyrics:
* Should I take chances, when no one took chances on me?
* All that I wanted, was to be wanted. - Flashback to her song Fifteen: "when all that you wanted was to be wanted."
* And the memories were lost long ago but at least you have beautiful ghosts.
* Visions of dazzling rooms, I'll never be let into.
* Scared to call them my friends, and be broken again. Is this hope just a mystical dream?
* I feel so alive with these phantoms of the night.
* And I know that life isn't safe but it's wild and free.