If you are a fan then you won't care that you bought same albums more than once. No different than me buying my Queen albums on vinyl, then 8-track, then cassette, then CD, then digital file.

[–] Typhoonigator@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

And then vinyl again. Time is a vinyl.

[+] marte@lemmy.eco.br -15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 106 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're leaving out some major portions of the story there:

In August 2018, as per Billboard, Swift's attorney Donald Passman and her management team proposed to Big Machine Label Group that the masters be sold back to Swift as their contract was nearing expiration; the label group responded that it would happen only if she renewed her recording contract with Big Machine, agreeing to create more albums under the label for the next decade. The two parties never arrived at an agreement.

Hanging her master's over her head to be locked into another decade's worth of work isn't exactly "LITERALLY" offering her. From the sounds of it her team tried to negotiate she pay more money even to own them to not resign, and they refused all of her offers.

She moved on, and was content with her new record deal. It wasn't until Big Machine was purchased by private equity, mostly headed by Scooter Braun, did she actually decide to re-record her albums because they were now owned by him, and there was no way to buy them at all.

Taylor was 100% in her rights to re-record her masters and it was a legal way for her to gain ownership of her music again. Whether you like her or not, artists deserve the right to own their music, not have it dangled in front of them as a carrot to keep producing golden eggs.

There's even a wikipedia article on the entire subject, and it's pretty well documented now too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift_masters_dispute

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Exactly. The people complaining have no understanding of how record labels work, and how they dick over their artists.

Edit. Holy crap, what did I miss? Came back to read new comments and it's all deleted. The person even deleted their account. People be cray.

[–] FrChazzz@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My 4 y/o daughter has only recently become OBSESSED with “Shake It Off.” she asked me to play it in the car. Using Siri we get “Taylor’s Version” and within seconds my daughter just goes “no, I want the REAL one not the fake one!”

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Then maybe you can explain to her that both are real and both are Taylor.

Once upon a time there was a teenager named Taylor Swift who wanted to be a singing star. She could sing and write songs but she didn't know how to produce them, which means get them on the radio so people can hear them, and get on stages for concerts, and make money from selling them. A business man said, I can make you famous if you promise I can own all your original songs. That way I'll get some money every time they get played, and you'll get some too. So she promised. And she wrote and sang lots of songs, and did concerts and worked hard, and became famous, and she got paid money but she felt a little sad that he owned all her songs.

And then one day he sold all her beautiful music to a mean bully. She tried to buy them back, she had plenty of money now, but the bully said "NO. They're mine!" Well, Taylor was mad. And she was grown up now. And she had learned a lot about how to do all the business part of producing. So she decided to use her own money and make new versions of every single song she'd ever done, with all the things she had learned, and add some new songs as well. She got to work, and it was a lot of hard work because she knew some people were going to like the original version better but she hoped some would prefer the new ones. Or at least they would be interested to compare them. And that's just what happened. All her Swifties loved having new familiar songs to sing and dance dance dance to, and talk about which version they liked best. And they agreed it's okay to disagree about which version is better. Because they're all Taylor, just at different times in her life.

EDIT:

I guess I should add,

And there were also a lot of guys who got really mad because she was famous and had money and was pretty and she only seemed to be interested in her fans and her friends and her boyfriend and not THEM. So they say nasty stuff about her. Especially a certain orange chicken taco man really hates her because she didn't want him to be President. He won anyway. Sometimes life is like that, and we just gotta shake it off, and go on doing our best to help make a good life in a good world.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that what all the Taylor's versions are all about... I guess i'm too old to be her target audience

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, she already is stuck in a nostalgia bubble and can't tell that the newer recording is objectively better? I'm not even a Taylor fan but the original release of Shake It Off is clearly inferior to the newer "Taylor's Version".

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

When you're 4, whatever you experienced first is the real thing and anything claiming to be the same is fake. That's why they hate fancy restaurant burgers.

Thus my little fairy tale in the thread.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's disgusting about 1989?

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