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| | Taylor Swift is the 'highest paid celebrity,' made $185 million in the past year | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift is the richest victim in the world! She really is. She?s a pretty, tall, enormously rich white lady who has convinced the world that everyone is out to get her, that no one wants to see her succeed, that she cannot live her life without mean bullies raking her over the coals over nothing that was ever her fault. In case you?re wondering just how successful Taylor?s snake act is, Tay once again tops Forbes? list of top-earning celebrities.
Taylor Swift is the highest-paid celebrity of the past year, raking in a whopping $185 MILLION which just might help her get over her grossed out feelings about losing her early catalog. Forbes dropped its Celebrity 100 list Wednesday, and Taylor tops the charts with the biggest earnings total of her career. The mag says her estimated pay increased an insane 131% from the year before, when she made a paltry $80 mil.
This marks the second time the singer has been top dog on The Celebrity 100 she was also the top earner back in 2016, capturing the No. 1 spot with $170 million thanks to The 1989 World Tour. Touring is filling Taylors coffers again this time around the Reputation Stadium Tour broke her own record as the highest-grossing tour in the United States with an eye-popping $266.1 million. She also toured overseas, and those shows bring the tours overall income to $345 mil.
[From TMZ]
I always wonder about Forbes? numbers and how they calculate all of that stuff it would not surprise me at all if Taylor?s Reputation Tour grossed (in total) $345 million, but of course Taylor didn?t take home even half of that after costs, expenditures, salaries, travel, taxes and more. Besides, the biggest revenue for EVERY touring musical act is the merch, not ticket sales. Merchandise is where it?s at, which is probably why Taylor is now doing a clothing line. More merch, more money.
Speaking on money and how Taylor is loaded? questions remain about just how it came to be that Scooter Braun bought Taylor?s masters (through the purchase of Big Machine) and whether Taylor even sought to buy her masters at any point. Scooter Braun?s side is still saying that what he did was just business, and that? Taylor is still misrepresenting her knowledge of everything. From Us Weekly?s cover story:
Now they?ve got bad blood! Don?t expect Taylor Swift to work with music manager Scooter Braun any time soon. The ?You Need to Calm Down? singer, 29, slammed the exec, 38, for purchasing her masters ? but that might not be the whole story.
?Scooter has tried to reach Taylor though multiple channels,? a source tells Us exclusively. ?He was really shocked at her response. Scooter won?t be commenting publicly about this? He wants to have a private, direct conversation with Taylor.?
The insider adds that Taylor?s version of events doesn?t match up with the timetable of the record label?s sale. ?The potential sale of Big Machine, and Taylor?s renegotiation with Big Machine were widely reported and in that entire process,? adds the source. ?Taylor didn?t reach out once about wanting her masters.?
[From Us Weekly]
Ever since Taylor posted her essay on her Tumblr two Sundays ago, I?ve wondered so much about the issue of Taylor buying her masters. I actually believe the root of what Taylor claimed, which is that she was offered the chance to own her masters if she renewed her contract with Big Machine. The particulars of that deal are disputed (and Scott Borchetta has the receipts to prove his side), but I actually kind of wonder if Taylor KNEW that she could force the issue and start a conversation about what kind of money she would have to pay to Big Machine to buy her masters. Her lawyer said that she wasn?t given the opportunity to bid on the masters, but? I wonder if she actually tried, or if she thought ?I?m done with that? when she walked away from Big Machine.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Taylor Swift is doing the most for Pride Month & supporting LGBTQ rights | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It?s been less than a year since Taylor Swift came out of the political closet and endorsed a local Tennessee Democrat in the 2018 midterms. She also encouraged all of her fans to register to vote and GOTV on every Election Day. It was a much better move than continuing to stay silent and allowing her silence to be used as a de facto endorsement for Republican policies, racism and white supremacy. As of now, Taylor hasn?t talked much about race and racism, but she has been making moves to talk more about women?s rights and LGBTQ rights. Taylor decided to chime in once again for the start of Pride Month (June is Pride Month). Tay posted this to Twitter:
#lettertomysenator https://t.co/EKYMXZw5U9 pic.twitter.com/Ym0mGeOHgc
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) June 1, 2019
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| | Taylor Swift's business model is dependent on Mayochella controversies & shade | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?ve always known that Taylor Swift is one of the smartest businesswomen to ever enter the music industry. It?s true even if Tay?s haters want to criticize her for everything else, they have to give her credit for understanding her business model and for understanding how to promote herself and her music. One of the most fundamental parts of the Business of Taylor is controversy, hype and headlines. Bad or good, any gossip helps her sell music. So that?s why I?m starting to wonder if the whole Mayochella thing was perhaps too convenient. My theory: Taylor knows on some level that ?ME!? is perhaps not her best single, and she knows that the conversation about ?what is this rainbow-vomit twee mess? would only last for so long. So like all smart businesswomen, she gave people a new controversy: Mayochella, the Billboard Music Awards performance.
I honestly didn?t come up with this theory on my own Vanity Fair pointed it out, that this is always the early cycle of Taylor Swift?s promotion. VF posits that Taylor Swift would rather be part of a ?copycat/appropriation? conversation than being ignored altogether. Plus, Swift understands her fanbase, and she knows they?ll charge forth to defend her honor no matter what, so Tay stokes controversy then sits back and plays the victim. She gets to ?copy? Beyonce, get dragged for it, then watch her fans defend her vociferously, and all she has to do is sit back and give a few ?pity poor me, everyone was MEAN to me!? interviews. And we fall for it every damn time!
Desus & Mero mocked Taylor last night. Just go ahead and mock her, this is part of her business model.
Also, I hadn?t seen this before, but before Mayochella, there were people saying that Taylor was copycatting Kacey Musgraves? imagery and pastel vibes.
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I guess this means @taylorswift is coming back with a country album? ? #kaceymusgraves #taylorswift #pop #country #music #popstar #countrymusic #instagram #aesthetic #branding #color #pastel #bright #heart #spaceykacey #musician #wiwt #ootd #dietprada
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| | Taylor Swift's cat-adoption video will turn people into members of the Snake Fam | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Prepare yourselves, Snake Fam. I am about to admit something devastating: today, I am one of you. I am part of the Snake Fam now (just for the day!!!). As we discussed, Taylor Swift adopted a new kitten, a Ragdoll boy she named Benjamin Button. I heard the rumor that she actually met Benji the first time as she was shooting her music video for ?ME!? Benji is the little kitten (stunt kitten) in the video. Now Taylor has released a ?behind the scenes? video of the ?ME!? shoot, and it?s just about the first time she ever picked him up and held him, and you can totally see her instantly falling in love:
This is why I got a day pass to the Snake Fam. I am the same way, which is why I can only go to the Humane Society or a shelter if I?m ready to adopt. I will pick up a kitten literally any kitten and talk myself into adopting him or her. Some people are that way about babies as in, someone who can pick up any baby and want to take the baby home. I?ve never been that way about babies. But kittens and puppies? Yes. It?s a problem. It?s why I can?t just ?visit? a shelter. I would have a house full of cats and dogs if I did that.
So, yeah, I like Taylor for this and I completely understand how she ended up with three cats. And I love that she was so obsessed immediately, and that Brendon Urie is not any kind of lifeline trying to talk her out of it. And her dad kissing the kitten!! OMG. SNAKE FAM WHAT IS HAPPENING. THIS IS THE CUTEST THING.
Photos courtesy of Taylor Swift?s Twitter.
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| | Taylor Swift brings out her pastel fairy-queen drag for the Time 100 gala | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As we discussed previously, Taylor Swift?s 2019 aesthetic is? very pastel. The Reputation-era styling was ?gritty? (gritty for Taylor) but she?s gone back to sorbet colors for whatever she?s launching on Friday. I keep assuming it?s new music, but it could very well be a fashion line or BOTH. Anyway, Taylor decided to attend the Time 100 gala last night. Taylor is on the Time 100 list, and she even got one of the covers, because the old-dude editors of Time Magazine think Taylor is the most important person in music. Agree or disagree?
So Taylor attended the gala looking like? this. It makes me miss the era where she was trying to look like a Victoria?s Secret model, honestly. I would even take her preppy-Kennedy-era over this fairy-queen mess. I mean, I?ll be nice her makeup looks great. The styling is on point and she obviously thought a lot about how she?s presenting herself with this makeover. Everything is coherent and it?s a full-formed LOOK. That being said, this dress is THE WORST. Taylor even wanted us to see the back of it:
It?s TIME. #time100 pic.twitter.com/sC9zu13CVm
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 23, 2019
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| | Taylor Swift will probably drop her new album on April 26th, or will she?! | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Well, well. I wondered why Taylor Swift suddenly appeared on the covers of Elle and Elle UK for the April issues. I wondered why, because it didn?t seem like Taylor had anything in particular to promote. We all knew that Taylor had been working on new music after her Reputation Tour ended, but no one knew when or how. Going by her past album drops, I was expecting a late summer or early fall album drop, with a glitzy-yet-silent promotional tour. But no, I was wrong. It looks like Taylor wants us to know that she?ll be dropping new music on April 26th, the Friday after Easter.
Taylor changed up her social media (Twitter and Instagram) with new profile pics of a cloudy pink-lavender something or other. Both Twitter and IG have ?4.26? in the description too, and a link to Taylor?s official site, which has a clock counting down until? T-Day, I would assume. Tay Day. Taylor also posted this on Saturday:
4.26 pic.twitter.com/E5cecDmo5f
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 13, 2019
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| | Taylor Swift in Rosa Bloom at the iHeart Radio Music Awards: cute & bangsy? | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are just some photos from last night?s iHeart Radio Music Awards. By now, I think we all know that Taylor Swift doesn?t show up for anything unless she?s guaranteed an award. Which means she got the heads up that she was winning some awards at this iHeart thing. So Taylor had time to plan her look, and it was pretty cute, actually. Considering how rarely we see her on red carpets these days, I enjoy seeing the evolution of her style. She went for a very cute and sparkly romper by Rosa Bloom in a lovely shade of violet. She paired the romper with Sophia Webster heels which had butterflies on the heel. I?ve grown used to Taylor?s bangs and I guess I accept at them at this point, but I wish they weren?t quite so thick?
Taylor took home awards for best music video (for ?Delicate,? which she and Joseph Kahn copied from Kenzo and Spike Jonze lmao), Best Tour and Best Fan Army. Jesus, we?re giving awards to the Snake Fam now??? It?s mind-boggling. Taylor did her Taylor thing during her speeches and acted like the most aggrieved woman in the world. Stay fresh, Tay.
Meanwhile, the former Snake Enemy #1 was also in attendance Katy Perry walked the carpet with Zedd, not Orlando Bloom. Zedd and Katy are friendly collaborators and I doubt there?s anything there but business. Taylor was probably chuckling into her bangs trauma about how terrible Katy looked though why in God?s name is Katy doing this to herself? The too-platinum blonde hair, the sh-tty dress. Ugh. Katy was a presenter at the awards show, and she also told Entertainment Tonight that she would be open to collaborating with? Taylor Swift.
We?ve got the A.I. version of Katy Perry on the #iHeartAwards2019 red carpet and she?s ?open? to making new music with Taylor Swift! ? pic.twitter.com/DpJYvAp3mC
Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) March 15, 2019
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| | Taylor Swift in Versace at the Golden Globes: lovely & suspiciously curvy? | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift has a tortured history with the Golden Globes. She was once nominated, and she lost, and she never loses awards. She turned up to the show once and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made a few jokes at her expense, which is the first time Taylor had ever been the butt of a joke before and she threw a hissy fit about it for months afterward. But 2019 is a whole new Snake, and Joe Alwyn?s film, The Favourite, is an Oscar contender. So Taylor decided to come out and present a few awards with Idris Elba. She didn?t walk the Globes red carpet, nor does it look like she posed for photos backstage. But she attend the Warner Bros/InStyle post-Globes party and she even walked the carpet!
Taylor stayed in the same curve-hugging Versace gown for all of the night?s activities. This dress is great, and her body looks amazing in it. I think it?s a combination of things she?s gained some weight and it looks wonderful on her. I also think she got her breast implants redone, because they look bigger and less bolted-on now? I also think it?s possible she got butt implants. Still, I feel like Taylor?s hair is throwing off the whole look. The hair says ?country music awards? but the dress says ?Golden Globes presenter.?
We expect wackiness and interesting looks from Janelle Mone at this point. But was I alone in thinking that the main part of her Chanel ensemble was just? a solid look? It was the gold hat that made everything weird. Sans hat, she would have just looked really cute and sophisticated. As for the hat? why is sitting so high on her head? Why am I hungry for Ferrero Rocher now?
Lucy Liu in Galia Lahav. I love her and I love Elementary, and I was sad when she talked about shooting the last episodes of the show. People really should have watched it, it was SO good. Anyway, Lucy just looked bizarre. She?s lightened her hair, and her dress was not great.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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It appears that Taylor Swift mixed up Halloween with New Years Eve because here she is dressed up as Ariel from Disney. As you can see her friends who are probably ecstatic to be part of her entourage are in costumes as well. Anyway, it looks like a good time, but I personally like her []
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| | Taylor Swift threw a huge, celebrity-filled costume party for New Year's Eve | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Mary Poppins, Audrey, Ariel, Ms. Frizzle, Cinderella, Gwen, Mr. Toad, Avril, Nancy Drew, Posh Spice, Rizzo, Frida Kahlo, Steve Irwin, Dorothy.. This new year we decided to dress up as our childhood heroes. Sending you all love and hope going into 2019 ?
A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Dec 31, 2018 at 9:45pm PST
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