<story><title>Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/taylor-swift/dont-know-what-else-to-do/10156631338812023/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ggm</author><text>&lt;i&gt;(not a tay tay fan. not actually listening to much music these days, I can&amp;#x27;t quite get Bach and Beefheart out of my head)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Normally I&amp;#x27;m a &amp;quot;the contract sets the limits&amp;quot; person but in artist&amp;#x27;s rights, an given the extent to which artists are both young, and exploited, and wind up in legally dubious relationships which then magify out and up, I think the intent should be &amp;quot;what&amp;#x27;s the right thing here, no matter what the contract says&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And I think unless she received heinous amounts of fuck you money, and sold her rights for their current worth, unless she did that, if this is just normal A&amp;amp;R nickel-and-diming, then they should be told to go away, and she should get to perform her songs.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;you can&amp;#x27;t perform your songs&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; is a very sad place to wind up. it does nobody any good.&lt;p&gt;She very possibly did receive heinous amounts of A&amp;amp;R support but I would also believe a lot of leeching has been going on. The industry is a giant machine to suck revenue out of art and put it into tax efficient structures for other people.&lt;p&gt;They learned from masters: the movie industry. Who did those masters learn from? The Sheet music industry.&lt;p&gt;Pop will eat itself.</text></comment>
<story><title>Taylor Swift: Don’t know what else to do</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/taylor-swift/dont-know-what-else-to-do/10156631338812023/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bhauer</author><text>For those who, like me, don&amp;#x27;t visit the domain called facebook dot com: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;taylorswift13&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1195123215657508867?s=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;taylorswift13&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1195123215657508867...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>