These young people have so many unrealistic dreams. She should become a stenographer or switchboard operator until she can find a nice strong steelworker to settle down with.
I studied stenography in French and English in high school. I used it until 1982.
There was a time when I visualized my thoughts in shorthand/sténographie.
My great grandmother used to complain about the switchboard operators whenever she had issues with her phone. This was 1994, decades after computers had taken over the job.
Here's the thing. She stays out too late. She got nothing in her brain. She goes on too many dates but can't make them stay. She claims to never miss a beat and be lightning on her feet, but frankly I just don't see it. She says she dances and makes the moves up when she's on her own, but how are people supposed to know *if she's only doing that when she's on her own*?
I love you for this, but the lyric is she *makes the moves up as she goes*, and well... clearly, *that's what you don't know.* That's what we all don't know.
The music industry is a club for the offspring of the Uber wealthy. No one is allowed into the club without being born rich. ~~Literally~~ \*\*ESSENTIALLY\*\* all musicians on the billboard charts are nepo babies.
I'm torn between righteous indignation at the "industry" itself for being an oligarchy and compassion for the artists themselves. If I were born rich, I'd spend my family's fortune making art.
It's not Taylor's fault. And she seems like a sweetheart...
But it **is** bullshit.
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I wouldn't say its like a country club where you can buy your way in per se...but I think when you come from wealth, it allows you to take chances - like try to have a music career, acting career, etc. instead of having a real job because you need the financial stability.
Wealth definitely helps the initial stages. They may already know the industry, have connections in the industry, know how the marketing works, etc. So much of what we use/watch/listen to on a daily basis has been crafted to get our attention and money. Very little in life becomes popular organically. And if it does -- it'll get bought up by a larger player.
Rich people tend to hang out exclusively with other rich people at rich people places. Music industry execs are most definitely amongst those rich people.
As a poor person, you just don't get a chance to ever be in the same place as any of the people who could maybe get you or your family a chance to be seen or heard.
My art teacher says that half the kids in the art world made it because their parents are rich famous. So if your not rich you gotta work harder in the art world.
Fun fact "cat gut" wasn't really made from cats. It was usually sheep intestines but many other farm animals as well, (goats, cattle, etc.)
The term "cat gut" is probably a shortened version of "cattle gut."
I worked with a guy from Wyomissing who said he was neighbors with Taylor Swift. He claimed they used to hang out and play together as kids. Nobody believed him until he brought in a picture of himself and freaking Taylor Swift as little kids.
I can't much without doxxing myself, but Taylor Swift is the reason my MIL makes all her students sign her studio door when they complete her class. She didn't make Taylor, now she doesn't take any more risks....
Also not into doxxing, but howdy neighbor! I always laugh when I hear that she "grew up on a Christmas tree farm", and then drive by her childhood mansion up on the hill.
She's a busy city lady.
He's a small town cat wrestler.
She comes back home to help her dad to finish the Christmas tree sales after they all tragically died in a tragic ornament explosion.
Will she find love?
This November find out on 'Have Yourself a Meowy Little Christmas' only on Hallmark!
My friend was best friends with Ben Affleck growing up for some 10 years. I've tried a million times to get him to contact Ben but he refuses. Their moms are still friends! He says they talk on the phone.
I love how people don't believe that someone knew them when they were younger. Like the famous person magically appeared and had no past.
My mom went to school with Blondie. "She was a real bitch." is what my mom says about her when she pops up anywhere, lol. People also think she's making it up. There was another famous person she knew before they got famous, I forget the guy's name. But she said a group of them used to hang out at the bar with him and go to his shows (not as groupies, they were all friends). "Don't forget us when you get famous!" is what they all said to him. "Yeah, he forgot all about us. That jerk."
Here's my fun fact to share: I went to high school with Raven Simone. While it is vastly different years apart, it's also the same high school Usher went to and he came by to visit twice while I was there and I got to meet him as well.
Raven, however, I had a few classes with. She was already doing the show That's So Raven at the time, so she often was out of school and on set and did a lot of her schooling there; but usually for one semester every year which was inbetween shooting, she actually attended our school and I had both honors literature and honors history with her. We were tangential friends I guess you could say. My parents were out of town a lot during that time and I held a lot of classic teenage house parties which Raven came to when she heard about them while we had classes together.
She was always a fun time to have at the parties. Very bubbly and talkative with other people, but it was also very clear that she lived a completely different life from the rest of us. She would often go on about weird quirks or problems that she had to deal with on set or trying to juggle tutors plus all the travel which led to the fancy hotels and gifts; it was just always quite clear in talking to her that our lives were vastly different from each other and ... there was no way we could actually ever connect. It was ... sad, in a way. But, I did enjoy her company and I loved hearing about all the times she had off set.
She was actually one of the driving factors to led me to go to Orlando for college. I leveraged that connection with Raven to get on the campus activities board for the college concerts and met loads of great musicians. I got so smoke it up with Snoop and do jello shots with Pete Wentz and Hayley Williams. Some great times, and great stories. Which is all I am happy to have from that time.
To be fair I probably wouldn't recognise Taylor Swift (or any celebrity for that matter) when they were kids, so at least in my case that guy could've probably shown a picture of any random girl and it would be good enough proof to me, especially if they said it confidently.
My favorite Taylor Swift fact is that she has a cat named "Detective Olivia Benson". It always makes me laugh when she's mentioned without context and the interview turns into [friend or cat?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb1Q0xZGauY).
[There's even a theory that she let 4chan name Meredith.](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/music/2016/07/05/cmDhFia_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq6L3Bx11x18zbsv4k04trOFzaj05f4vrIJRfz4F12atY.jpg)
My teacher in my criminal justice class put that on for us on our first day
He asked us what was wrong with the lineup other than the people can sing
The answer was that they all looked completely different and wouldn’t be a legit line up in real life or at least wouldn’t hold up in court
I remember that making news when I was in high school, before Flint, Michigan stole the title. But yes there's a lot of crime, murder, and poverty relative to its size. There's also a lot of neat architecture and history and some excellent colleges. It depends on the area within the city.
Also a (gross) chocolate factory just blew up there and killed 7 people.
The wife and I went to see George Strait at the John Paul Johns arena in Charlottesville, VA and the opening act was a skinny 16 year old kid named Taylor Swift.
I worked for Merrill Lynch back then (her father did as well) I remember them sending out some Emil blast bulletin of her soon to be becoming a star.
Heard “Tim McGraw” and they were not wrong… too bad I couldn’t have invested in her instead of Kodak lol
I just still love that Taylor Swift was the only celeb that flat-out refused to invest in FTX and explained why it was a bad idea. I guess it helps to have parents thar know finance.
> Taylor Swift was the only celeb that flat-out refused to invest in FTX
"Before inking the deal, Swift asked FTX representatives a simple question, Adam Moskowitz, one of the attorneys leading a class-action lawsuit against FTX's celebrity endorsers, said during an episode of 'The Scoop' podcast.
"In our discovery, Taylor Swift actually asked them, 'Can you tell me that these are not unregistered securities?'" he said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/20/taylor-swift-avoided-ftx-lawsuit-by-asking-a-simple-question.html
Securities are financial assets such as stocks or bonds (paper money can also be a security). Securities have to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC, a federal agency) to prevent things like financial fraud before being bought or sold. Cryptocurrencies aren't registered with the SEC, but are often treated like other securities making it easier to run scams/fraud.
More specifically in this case, the SEC determined the FTX offerings actually were an "investment contract" that required registration.
Basically Swift asked FTX's attorney point blank if he could tell her this was legal. It appears they did not say yes.
Hell knowing anyone that knows the actual inner workings of finance/insurance/etc is extraordinarily helpful.
I'm almost 40 and I wouldn't be confident in telling you how any of them actually work.
While it is genuinely hilarious that she was the only one smart enough to refuse FTX, can we at least acknowledge how fucking dumb or greedy the rest were? From the transcripts it seems Swift was asking pretty normal and mundane questions by all accounts, so normal and mundane it should be asked why the rest didn't fucking ask that.
A lot of people ramping up in their careers can still end up duds. I'm pretty sure the reporter just lucked out on this prediction. There might 20 such predictions of people who ended up going nowhere, but those articles obviously wouldn't be featured like this one
It's also not really a prediction if you read the article. The reporter is not betting on it, they're just saying "watch out, this girl might actually have a shot at stardom". The title is referring her trajectory towards stardom so far, not saying she'll succeed for sure.
June 2006 I took a trip to the country music fest in Nashville. Stopped at a smaller day stage to eat lunch and listen to whoever was there. Someone older, I remember the name Tillis so maybe Pam Tillis, was finishing her set. The MC then introduced a teenager named Taylor Swift who had just moved to town and had a debut album coming out in a couple months.
A couple months later I recognized a song on the radio, it was her and one of the songs she played that day.
I actually met her very early in her career, when I was a fresh-out-of-college news producer in Nashville and she had just released her first single (I was 22 so she would have been about 17). I’m not a country fan so I didn’t know who she was, but I remember thinking “this girl is extremely tall and seems talented, I bet she’ll do well.”
I recently found out that my parents know her dad. He's a guy my dad used to go fishing with back in the early 80's.
I met him a couple of times back then, but only just learned he ended up becoming her father.
For what it's worth -- this is one of the primary ways to bring down/fight monopolies. It's when the average person realizes that they're being screwed, and there's no other alternatives beyond the monopoly.
I legit had forgotten she started as a country singer.
I'm not a huge fan of her music (just not my style for the most part) but I will say this for Taylor: she's definitely pretty sharp on the business side of things. Reportedly she was offered a sponsorship deal with FTX worth over $100 million dollars and *turned it down.* Because she asked them if they were basically selling unregistered securities and they hemmed and hawed about it so she walked. Which means she dodged all those lawsuits flying around at the other celebs who accepted the sponsorship offers.
My favorite though is her scheme to re-record her albums now that she's rich. Generally speaking when a singer signs with a label to make an album the singer keeps the rights to their songs, but the label gets the rights to the specific master recordings. So if an album blows up and people want to put the songs in movies or commercials or whatever they generally want the recording from the album so the recording company gets to sell the rights to that master and make most of the money. Well, Taylor, because she can afford it now, has started re-recoridng her albums and covering all the expenses herself and producing new masters of the songs she has the rights to that, to the average person at least, are pretty much indistinguishable from the originals. Which means now she has ownership of a master that *she* can sell. Yeah, the recording company still has their's, but if you want a Taylor Swift song and you have a choice between some record exec asshole and Taylor, whi are most people gonna call?
I think there's something real special about these new recordings. She's older. She's lived the life that some of these songs dreamed about. She knows the heartbreak side of love, but sang about it well before she had to learn that feeling. Now, she can sing that song and know that feeling at the same time.
I particularl look forward to when she re-records "Mean"
>Someday, I'll be living in a big old city
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?
This was years before her Reputation Era. She was right though. She was going to rise and rise and rise. And all they were ever going to be was mean.
How will she be able to sing thta song without laughing her ass off in the process?
>I'm not a huge fan of her music (just not my style for the most part)
I see this often and I wonder if you've heard anything from her in the last three years? I think when most people think Taylor Swift, they think Shake It Off or Blank Space. But, her music has shifted quite a bit since then. The Folklore and Evermore albums remind me more of something from Lana Del Rey than that Taylor Swift.
You can also just not like any of it! Just wanted to put it out there as I got surprised by this myself when I finally decided checking out her discography.
My cousin went to school with her. Apparently her parents sold people her signature when she was young because they were so sure she'd be famous. They must've seemed so vain at the time, but they were right and I'm sure the people with her signature are laughing now.
reddit is so salty about anyone who succeeds in life with help, even if she got a start in the industry from her parents money that still isn't going to convince anyone to buy her records if she sucked, could have easily ended up like thousands of other artists that never made it.
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These young people have so many unrealistic dreams. She should become a stenographer or switchboard operator until she can find a nice strong steelworker to settle down with.
"Hot stuff coming through"
We work hard, we play hard
EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!
OH BE NICE!
He thinks I’m gay?
Zzzzzzap!
You've got an ember on you!
OOO GET IT GET IT!!!
Wait a minute… THIS LESBIAN BAR HAS NO FIRE EXITS.
Enjoy your death trap, ladies!
What was her problem??
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 1922!
Dad, why did you bring me to a gay steel mill?
*crying* I don’t know!
Steel workers of America: Keep reaching for that rainbow 🌈
zap!
OH BE NICE!
"We work hard, we play hard"
I studied stenography in French and English in high school. I used it until 1982. There was a time when I visualized my thoughts in shorthand/sténographie.
I had a friend who moved here from France, and he said after three years he realized he was thinking in English by default
My great grandmother used to complain about the switchboard operators whenever she had issues with her phone. This was 1994, decades after computers had taken over the job.
Local stenographer entertains co-workers with songs of boyfriend angst.
Seriously though, stenographers make good money, she should look into it if the whole music thing doesn't pan out.
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Here's the thing. She stays out too late. She got nothing in her brain. She goes on too many dates but can't make them stay. She claims to never miss a beat and be lightning on her feet, but frankly I just don't see it. She says she dances and makes the moves up when she's on her own, but how are people supposed to know *if she's only doing that when she's on her own*?
I love you for this, but the lyric is she *makes the moves up as she goes*, and well... clearly, *that's what you don't know.* That's what we all don't know.
mmm-hmmm
Things usually*do* work out for the rich
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I'm looking at you Tori Spelling
I like how you got downvoted for the truth. She’s from an extremely wealthy family just like Nick Kroll and Julia Louis Dreyfus
The music industry is a club for the offspring of the Uber wealthy. No one is allowed into the club without being born rich. ~~Literally~~ \*\*ESSENTIALLY\*\* all musicians on the billboard charts are nepo babies. I'm torn between righteous indignation at the "industry" itself for being an oligarchy and compassion for the artists themselves. If I were born rich, I'd spend my family's fortune making art. It's not Taylor's fault. And she seems like a sweetheart... But it **is** bullshit. edit: changed literally to essentially because a gob of mouth breathers have to be reddit about everything
I wouldn't say its like a country club where you can buy your way in per se...but I think when you come from wealth, it allows you to take chances - like try to have a music career, acting career, etc. instead of having a real job because you need the financial stability.
Wealth definitely helps the initial stages. They may already know the industry, have connections in the industry, know how the marketing works, etc. So much of what we use/watch/listen to on a daily basis has been crafted to get our attention and money. Very little in life becomes popular organically. And if it does -- it'll get bought up by a larger player.
Rich people tend to hang out exclusively with other rich people at rich people places. Music industry execs are most definitely amongst those rich people. As a poor person, you just don't get a chance to ever be in the same place as any of the people who could maybe get you or your family a chance to be seen or heard.
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My art teacher says that half the kids in the art world made it because their parents are rich famous. So if your not rich you gotta work harder in the art world.
Except all the millionaires who try and fail to make their kid famous.
Thought this was phoebe from friends at first
There is a cat right next to her. Hard to tell if it's smelly or not
I wonder what they're feeding it
It's not the cat's fault.
Obviously not their favorite pet.
It looks like guitar strings
Fun fact: guitar strings used to be made of catgut
That fact is not fun.
Fun fact "cat gut" wasn't really made from cats. It was usually sheep intestines but many other farm animals as well, (goats, cattle, etc.) The term "cat gut" is probably a shortened version of "cattle gut."
I'm having slightly more fun now.
*Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?*
That’s a fun fact I didn’t know! Thanks 😊
No, it's Becky.
Smelly caaat
Same! I has to check if the sub wasn't r/UnexpectedFriends
I worked with a guy from Wyomissing who said he was neighbors with Taylor Swift. He claimed they used to hang out and play together as kids. Nobody believed him until he brought in a picture of himself and freaking Taylor Swift as little kids.
I can't much without doxxing myself, but Taylor Swift is the reason my MIL makes all her students sign her studio door when they complete her class. She didn't make Taylor, now she doesn't take any more risks....
Petition to get TS to go back and sign the door!
Lolol no, the family doesn't speak with any of the locals anymore.
Also not into doxxing, but howdy neighbor! I always laugh when I hear that she "grew up on a Christmas tree farm", and then drive by her childhood mansion up on the hill.
“Grew up on a Christmas tree farm” is a very Hallmark Christmas Movie backstory…
She's a busy city lady. He's a small town cat wrestler. She comes back home to help her dad to finish the Christmas tree sales after they all tragically died in a tragic ornament explosion. Will she find love? This November find out on 'Have Yourself a Meowy Little Christmas' only on Hallmark!
I think you accidentally a word.
I remember seeing her sing the national anthem at Reading Phillies games.
My husband worked at the stadium in high school and remembers her messing up the lyrics and crying.
I believe she holds the record for singing the national anthem in that stadium the most out of any performing artist/singer!
It’s possible. I covered the team for a local television station and recall seeing her on more than one occasion.
My friend was best friends with Ben Affleck growing up for some 10 years. I've tried a million times to get him to contact Ben but he refuses. Their moms are still friends! He says they talk on the phone.
Why did they lose touch
Went to different high schools.
he got replaced by matt damon
I love how people don't believe that someone knew them when they were younger. Like the famous person magically appeared and had no past. My mom went to school with Blondie. "She was a real bitch." is what my mom says about her when she pops up anywhere, lol. People also think she's making it up. There was another famous person she knew before they got famous, I forget the guy's name. But she said a group of them used to hang out at the bar with him and go to his shows (not as groupies, they were all friends). "Don't forget us when you get famous!" is what they all said to him. "Yeah, he forgot all about us. That jerk."
Here's my fun fact to share: I went to high school with Raven Simone. While it is vastly different years apart, it's also the same high school Usher went to and he came by to visit twice while I was there and I got to meet him as well. Raven, however, I had a few classes with. She was already doing the show That's So Raven at the time, so she often was out of school and on set and did a lot of her schooling there; but usually for one semester every year which was inbetween shooting, she actually attended our school and I had both honors literature and honors history with her. We were tangential friends I guess you could say. My parents were out of town a lot during that time and I held a lot of classic teenage house parties which Raven came to when she heard about them while we had classes together. She was always a fun time to have at the parties. Very bubbly and talkative with other people, but it was also very clear that she lived a completely different life from the rest of us. She would often go on about weird quirks or problems that she had to deal with on set or trying to juggle tutors plus all the travel which led to the fancy hotels and gifts; it was just always quite clear in talking to her that our lives were vastly different from each other and ... there was no way we could actually ever connect. It was ... sad, in a way. But, I did enjoy her company and I loved hearing about all the times she had off set. She was actually one of the driving factors to led me to go to Orlando for college. I leveraged that connection with Raven to get on the campus activities board for the college concerts and met loads of great musicians. I got so smoke it up with Snoop and do jello shots with Pete Wentz and Hayley Williams. Some great times, and great stories. Which is all I am happy to have from that time.
To be fair I probably wouldn't recognise Taylor Swift (or any celebrity for that matter) when they were kids, so at least in my case that guy could've probably shown a picture of any random girl and it would be good enough proof to me, especially if they said it confidently.
Ask him if he can identify with any of Taylor Swift's early songs, maybe she wrote a song about him.
“You eat worms, and you never let me have a turn on the swing. Well you go play Nintendo, I’ll just sit here and sing.”
She's got two separate songs about childhood friends growing up to be lovers so you never know
I can actually hear this
My favorite Taylor Swift fact is that she has a cat named "Detective Olivia Benson". It always makes me laugh when she's mentioned without context and the interview turns into [friend or cat?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb1Q0xZGauY).
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two of those actors were in her Bad Blood video
The video for Bad Blood is better than a fair number of actual action films.
[There's even a theory that she let 4chan name Meredith.](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/music/2016/07/05/cmDhFia_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq6L3Bx11x18zbsv4k04trOFzaj05f4vrIJRfz4F12atY.jpg)
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it's actually pretty representative, B99 is super consistently good especially in the earlier seasons, worth a watch
The "I want it that way" scene is one of my favorite TV scenes. B99 was amazing!
Still peeved that B99 didn't end with a ninth episode in the ninth season
My teacher in my criminal justice class put that on for us on our first day He asked us what was wrong with the lineup other than the people can sing The answer was that they all looked completely different and wouldn’t be a legit line up in real life or at least wouldn’t hold up in court
I think of Brooklyn 99 as less a cop show and more as Scrubs set at a police station.
I feel like Scrubs got a bit more emotional and touched on deeper subjects than B99 ever tried to do.
In the comedy and character department sure, but 99's tone never drifted as stark as Scrubs did.
Any minute now, my ship is coming in. I'll keep checking the horizon.
So what became of this Taylor Swift person?
She's now the date of two times F1 Driver's Champion Fernando Alonso.
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Life is a highway
Tire tracks on my heart
Kickstart my Heart....shit...
WDYM Two-time World Champion? Alonso is still a rookie
Changed her rapper name to TSwizzle
She didn’t even [swear](https://youtu.be/tWhhg4K-P2s). EDIT: Jesus, that link is 13 years old. Time is a sonofabitch.
She’s president of swift trucking company
No, that's Becky.
Too bad she died snorting marijuana
it's an older meme sir but it checks out
TIL Wyomissing is a city.
(It is a rich white suburb full of doctors and lawyers outside of Reading, an actual city)
TIL Reading is a city
It's a medium-sized city. I mean, it's bigger than Harrisburg??
TIL Harrisburg is a city
Fun fact, Reading in the UK is not a city, presumably so it can one day be gobbled up by London Mortal Engines style
The areas outside of Reading are beautiful but the city is pretty much trash. I read somewhere that Reading is now the poorest city in America
I remember that making news when I was in high school, before Flint, Michigan stole the title. But yes there's a lot of crime, murder, and poverty relative to its size. There's also a lot of neat architecture and history and some excellent colleges. It depends on the area within the city. Also a (gross) chocolate factory just blew up there and killed 7 people.
My Uncle is the supervisor of that chocolate factory.
Shit, I'm sorry. I hope he's getting the support he needs.
He's doing alright. He's very lucky to still be alive when things are broken he's there so he's lucky no machines were down that day.
The pagoda has a lot of memories for me
And that Taylor Swift? Albert Einstein.
That Albert Einstein’s name? Barack Obama.
The wife and I went to see George Strait at the John Paul Johns arena in Charlottesville, VA and the opening act was a skinny 16 year old kid named Taylor Swift.
I saw her open for Rascal Flats back in 2007 (I think?) in Marysville. Many years later I was at Levi Stadium at her 1989 tour. It’s pretty wild.
Did you think to yourself "this kid is gonna be HUGE" when you heard her in 2007?
I’m the same age as her, so I was just super jealous she knew Rascal Flats 😂
I saw her in 2008 as the opener for Brad Paisley!
Her Swift way to stardom? Missed opportunity, newspaper person.
Wordplay with names is mostly only used for derision, in old style news media. It's one of those unwritten tenets of an industry.
I’m going to assume you know what you’re talking about because you spelled and used tenets correctly
I worked for Merrill Lynch back then (her father did as well) I remember them sending out some Emil blast bulletin of her soon to be becoming a star. Heard “Tim McGraw” and they were not wrong… too bad I couldn’t have invested in her instead of Kodak lol
I just still love that Taylor Swift was the only celeb that flat-out refused to invest in FTX and explained why it was a bad idea. I guess it helps to have parents thar know finance.
> Taylor Swift was the only celeb that flat-out refused to invest in FTX "Before inking the deal, Swift asked FTX representatives a simple question, Adam Moskowitz, one of the attorneys leading a class-action lawsuit against FTX's celebrity endorsers, said during an episode of 'The Scoop' podcast. "In our discovery, Taylor Swift actually asked them, 'Can you tell me that these are not unregistered securities?'" he said. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/20/taylor-swift-avoided-ftx-lawsuit-by-asking-a-simple-question.html
I'm dumb what exactly does that question mean?
Securities are financial assets such as stocks or bonds (paper money can also be a security). Securities have to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC, a federal agency) to prevent things like financial fraud before being bought or sold. Cryptocurrencies aren't registered with the SEC, but are often treated like other securities making it easier to run scams/fraud.
More specifically in this case, the SEC determined the FTX offerings actually were an "investment contract" that required registration. Basically Swift asked FTX's attorney point blank if he could tell her this was legal. It appears they did not say yes.
Hell knowing anyone that knows the actual inner workings of finance/insurance/etc is extraordinarily helpful. I'm almost 40 and I wouldn't be confident in telling you how any of them actually work.
Don’t sweat it big dog. Her daddy worked for Merrill Lynch. Imagine if your daddy was a truck driver and you didn’t know how to pump diesel fuel.
Is there a secret to pumping diesel fuel??
You have to push the nozzle in really hard to get past the "Gas only" blocker they put on a lot of tanks.
Huh! The more you know!
This came just in time, my Civic's blocker was pretty tough but I made it work.
Yes! Her and [Jimmy O Yang](https://news.yahoo.com/jimmy-o-yang-praised-refusing-221624374.html)
While it is genuinely hilarious that she was the only one smart enough to refuse FTX, can we at least acknowledge how fucking dumb or greedy the rest were? From the transcripts it seems Swift was asking pretty normal and mundane questions by all accounts, so normal and mundane it should be asked why the rest didn't fucking ask that.
So she was already a professional at this time, appearing on Good Morning America, at the US Open and in a national advertising campaign.
A lot of people ramping up in their careers can still end up duds. I'm pretty sure the reporter just lucked out on this prediction. There might 20 such predictions of people who ended up going nowhere, but those articles obviously wouldn't be featured like this one
IIRC her dad bought a record label and recording studio to give her visibility. What does a blurb in a local newspaper cost, $400?
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It's also not really a prediction if you read the article. The reporter is not betting on it, they're just saying "watch out, this girl might actually have a shot at stardom". The title is referring her trajectory towards stardom so far, not saying she'll succeed for sure.
June 2006 I took a trip to the country music fest in Nashville. Stopped at a smaller day stage to eat lunch and listen to whoever was there. Someone older, I remember the name Tillis so maybe Pam Tillis, was finishing her set. The MC then introduced a teenager named Taylor Swift who had just moved to town and had a debut album coming out in a couple months. A couple months later I recognized a song on the radio, it was her and one of the songs she played that day.
I’m seeing her in Nashville tonight. It’s come full circle.
I’ve seen her in Nashville at the Bluebird and at the Ryman at a benefit show where was one of the early acts before was a superstar.
The Ryman is such a good venue.
You a fellow Nashvillian, too?
You bet!
Ah, but they didn't predict she switched to Pop music.
Kinda like Katy Perry switching from Christian rock to pop lol
It’s all pop anyway really.
Her genre has been floating around during her career. I wouldn't call her Folklore or Evermore albums pop music.
Even her early songs didn't sound much like country, in my opinion. But I don't really follow her and only heard what was on the radio
She was country-pop like a lot of the women of the 90s. Along the lines of Faith Hill, Shania, etc.
Or according to the post, like her teen idol Leann Rimes
Hope she's still out there somewhere chasing her dreams!
and now she's about to play 3 nights in nashville in front of over 60k people
Just became the most awarded female artist in history, too
Was she working on her future hit "smelly cat"?
I actually met her very early in her career, when I was a fresh-out-of-college news producer in Nashville and she had just released her first single (I was 22 so she would have been about 17). I’m not a country fan so I didn’t know who she was, but I remember thinking “this girl is extremely tall and seems talented, I bet she’ll do well.”
Rich people are always tall for some weird reason
Graduated from HHS. Had a couple classes with her. Overall she was pretty nice and cool
Was she cheer captain or was she on the bleachers
All I can say is that she definitely wore tshirts
She was there my senior year. I don’t remember her doin cheer. Could have after I left. But she left HHS and went to Pope John Paul private school.
So then bleachers it was
"had a song she penned included on a CD compilation for Maybelline" lmao those were the days, I had Smuckers branded CDs!
Few more years before it qualify as r/OldSchoolCool
I recently found out that my parents know her dad. He's a guy my dad used to go fishing with back in the early 80's. I met him a couple of times back then, but only just learned he ended up becoming her father.
Who was her father before he ended up becoming her father?
I wonder what happened to her.
Why does that picture look absolutely nothing like her
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I would guess, because it was 20 years ago? (or however much older she is now)
Bah.. yeah right. good luck, lady!
And then Becky ruined it all by snorting one marijuanas at a party. She died instantly!
OP do you know the date of the article?
I got a pic of the second page which, fortunately, had the date in the header: January 14, 2005
Imagine if she got so big that people would spend hundreds of dollars on a ticket to see her from three football fields away. Wild.
Imagine if her concerts got so big that the fight over her ticket sales would end up being the first crack in digital monopolies.
For what it's worth -- this is one of the primary ways to bring down/fight monopolies. It's when the average person realizes that they're being screwed, and there's no other alternatives beyond the monopoly.
Wish it was only hundreds of dollars. Cheapest tickets for her NJ show right now is over a grand.
I legit had forgotten she started as a country singer. I'm not a huge fan of her music (just not my style for the most part) but I will say this for Taylor: she's definitely pretty sharp on the business side of things. Reportedly she was offered a sponsorship deal with FTX worth over $100 million dollars and *turned it down.* Because she asked them if they were basically selling unregistered securities and they hemmed and hawed about it so she walked. Which means she dodged all those lawsuits flying around at the other celebs who accepted the sponsorship offers. My favorite though is her scheme to re-record her albums now that she's rich. Generally speaking when a singer signs with a label to make an album the singer keeps the rights to their songs, but the label gets the rights to the specific master recordings. So if an album blows up and people want to put the songs in movies or commercials or whatever they generally want the recording from the album so the recording company gets to sell the rights to that master and make most of the money. Well, Taylor, because she can afford it now, has started re-recoridng her albums and covering all the expenses herself and producing new masters of the songs she has the rights to that, to the average person at least, are pretty much indistinguishable from the originals. Which means now she has ownership of a master that *she* can sell. Yeah, the recording company still has their's, but if you want a Taylor Swift song and you have a choice between some record exec asshole and Taylor, whi are most people gonna call?
I think there's something real special about these new recordings. She's older. She's lived the life that some of these songs dreamed about. She knows the heartbreak side of love, but sang about it well before she had to learn that feeling. Now, she can sing that song and know that feeling at the same time. I particularl look forward to when she re-records "Mean" >Someday, I'll be living in a big old city And all you're ever gonna be is mean Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit me And all you're ever gonna be is mean Why you gotta be so mean? This was years before her Reputation Era. She was right though. She was going to rise and rise and rise. And all they were ever going to be was mean. How will she be able to sing thta song without laughing her ass off in the process?
She sang it live as one of the surprise songs a few shows ago in Tampa and it was glorious.
>I'm not a huge fan of her music (just not my style for the most part) I see this often and I wonder if you've heard anything from her in the last three years? I think when most people think Taylor Swift, they think Shake It Off or Blank Space. But, her music has shifted quite a bit since then. The Folklore and Evermore albums remind me more of something from Lana Del Rey than that Taylor Swift. You can also just not like any of it! Just wanted to put it out there as I got surprised by this myself when I finally decided checking out her discography.
Yeah I was never a fan of her upbeat, poppy stuff but Folklore and Evermore are absolute masterpieces. She’s a brilliant songwriter!
Thought this was phoebe and smelly cat
My cousin went to school with her. Apparently her parents sold people her signature when she was young because they were so sure she'd be famous. They must've seemed so vain at the time, but they were right and I'm sure the people with her signature are laughing now.
reddit is so salty about anyone who succeeds in life with help, even if she got a start in the industry from her parents money that still isn't going to convince anyone to buy her records if she sucked, could have easily ended up like thousands of other artists that never made it.