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| | Taylor Swift only got her ROTY Grammy nom because of shenanigans | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This week, the Grammy nominations came out. I remarked that the categories seemed expanded, because (going by my own memory) I didn?t remember a time when there were eight or nine artists or albums in the big categories. I assumed that I just missed the announcement that categories were being expanded and shrugged. As it turns out, it was a bit more complicated than that. Twenty-four hours before the nominations came out, the Recording Academy had a meeting in which they added a bunch of artists and albums into the categories. So half-assed. It?s also kind of funny because that meeting was the reason why Taylor Swift?s Evermore and Kanye West?s Donda were added to Album of the Year. Those albums would not have gotten in without that Recording Academy meeting on Monday:
The organization behind the Grammy Awards decided at a meeting on Monday ? just 24 hours before this year?s nominees were announced ? that the top categories should expand to 10 nominees from eight, a last-minute move that added stars like Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Abba and Lil Nas X to the existing slate of potential winners. When the nominations were revealed on a live webcast the next morning, Harvey Mason Jr., the chief executive of Recording Academy, hailed the surprise shift as a way ?to make room for more music, more artists and more genres, and to embrace the spirit of inclusion.?
But among the added names were some of pop?s biggest stars and people who were already on the ballot elsewhere. For album of the year, the two contenders added to the ballot were Swift?s ?Evermore? and West?s ?Donda,? joining titles by Justin Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Doja Cat, H.E.R., Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X and Jon Batiste.
The nod for ?Evermore? was Swift?s sole nomination for her own music on Tuesday. (She is also nominated as a songwriter on Rodrigo?s ?Sour.?) West?s nomination for ?Donda? brought his career total to 75.
It was possible to discover which artists benefited from the expansion because their names were absent from an early version of the ?final nominations list? that had been created several days before the announcement and included only eight names in those categories. That version had begun circulating outside the Recording Academy before the nominations were announced on Tuesday, and a copy of it was obtained by The New York Times.
The expansion in the top categories comes after the academy has trumpeted a new era of openness and transparency in its awards process. The 64th annual Grammys will be the first in more than 30 years without the use of anonymous nomination review committees, which were charged with whittling down voters? choices to create the final ballot ? a step that was intended to safeguard the awards? integrity but was accused of allowing manipulation behind the scenes.
Mason defended the move to add more nominees as a sign of a newly nimble, responsive Recording Academy, and said that the added names brought new sounds, styles and faces to the top categories. ?For us this is all positive movement,? he said. ?This is us honoring more great artists, more great music, giving artists an opportunity to shine and showcase.?
Mason said that the artists added to the list were simply the ninth and tenth most voted by the academy?s members, and were determined by Deloitte, the academy?s longtime partner in collecting and tabulating votes.
[From The NY Times]
The ninth and tenth most voted? That?s a huge slam for artists like Swift and West. Their peers didn?t think their albums were ?the top eight? albums and Swift and West would not have gotten those nominations without a behind-the-scenes intervention. The Times also points out that in the Record of the Year category, Lil Nas X?s ?Montero? and Abba?s ?I Still Have Faith in You? were the last-minute additions. For Song of the Year, the last-minute editions were: Doja Cat?s ?Kiss Me More? and ?Right on Time? by Brandi Carlile. In an effort to be more inclusive and expansive, the Recording Academy is out here, handing out (insulting) participation trophies to some of the biggest stars in music. Which just begs the question, again, what is wrong with Recording Academy voters that they couldnt get it right the first time?
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Swift?s IG.
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| | Taylor Swift wore a two-piece Miu Miu for the BRIT Awards: cute and '1989' era' | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift made an appearance at last night?s BRIT Awards in London. She knew she would receive the Global Icon Award, so that?s why she showed up. She was actually the first non-English artist to win that award, and the first woman. Tay wore this two-piece Miu Miu which? isn?t bad. It?s not ?great? but the fit is better than I would have expected from Miu Miu. I guess post-pandemic fashion is going to be very midriff-y, going by this look and all of the midriffs at the Oscars. With this look, people think Taylor is giving a clue about the next album she?s re-recording, or perhaps already re-recorded. She wore these kinds of looks during her 1989 era. But the hair, you guys! Those damn bangs are making my eye twitch and, while she did have bangs during that era, they didn?t look like this.
As for Taylor?s speech? she was presented the award by Maisie Williams, and there was a video tribute and all of that. Tay prepared a speech and I?m happy to say that it wasn?t all? um, Tay?s typical speechifying.
Swift thanked the people who made appearances during a sizzle reel about her career, including Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez, Zo Kravitz and Annie Lennox. (Taylor Swift is the same girl I met when I was 15. And she cares so deeply for her fans, Gomez said in it. I wish I could be there to support you and hang out with you. You are amazing.) Swift then thanked her collaborators, including Jack Antonoff, Justin Vernon, Aaron Dessner and her boyfriend Joe Alwyn.
I want to thank my friends and family who know exactly who they are, whose opinion of me never changed whether my stock was up or down, she said. If theres one thing that Ive learned its that you have to look around you every day and take note of the people who have always believed in you and never stop appreciating them for it. Never take them for granted. There are so many incredible new artists in this room tonight, and a lot of people watching who have goals and ambitions and dreams for themselves. I need you to hear me when I say that there is no career path that comes free of negativity. If youre being met with resistance, that probably means that youre doing something new.
If youre experiencing turbulence or pressure, that probably means youre rising. And there might be times when you put your whole heart and soul into something, and if it is met with cynicism or skepticism, you cannot let that crush you, you have to let it fuel you. We live in a world where anyone has the right to say anything that they want about you at any time, but just please remember that you have the right to prove them wrong.
[From People]
This is particularly well-said: ?We live in a world where anyone has the right to say anything that they want about you at any time, but just please remember that you have the right to prove them wrong.? I mean, she always positions herself as the underdog, the outsider fighting the system, the victim of every situation. But this is growth, for her to acknowledge that anyone can talk sh-t and you can use that to prove them wrong.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Taylor Swift released a song from the vault about Joe Jonas dumping her | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As we know, Taylor Swift is in the process of re-recording her first six studio albums, the ones she recorded under her Big Machine recording contract. She?s already re-recorded Fearless, which comes out this week. As such, Taylor of course wants to dominate the cultural conversation, which is why she tweeted this:
Me in 2020: life is chill, writing songs based in fiction to avoid drama, feeling pretty grown up
My 2008 music from the vault, in a goblin voice: ?REELEEEEEEASE MR PERFECTLY FIIIIIIINE? https://t.co/PCexr31q9x
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 7, 2021
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| | Taylor Swift blasts 'lazy, deeply sexist joke' on Netflix's 'Ginny & Georgia' | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?m honestly suspicious of people who have ample time to watch the latest Netflix offerings on the day they come out. Last week, a new Netflix series came out called Ginny & Georgia. I guess it?s supposed to be the new Gilmore Girls or something, and the story is about a 30-year-old mother and her 15-year-old daughter. In the final episode of the season, a pop culture ?joke? appeared:
Season 1 of the series, which follows 15-year-old Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and her 30-year-old mom Georgia (Brianne Howey), released last Wednesday and features 10 episodes. In the finale, titled The Worst Betrayal Since Jordyn and Kylie, the mother-daughter duo are fighting when Ginny says to her mom: What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.?
[From The Sun]
The joke is bad. It doesn?t even make sense given the current pop culture image of Taylor Swift. It?s a joke which would have been based in some kind of factual snake drama in, say, 2012/13. But in the year of our lord Beyonce 2021? No, the joke is lazy and culturally irrelevant. Taylor has been with Joe Alwyn for more than four years. Sure, she did Tom Hiddleston dirty before she got to Joe, but there are other, better jokes to be made about THAT. Anyway, as you can imagine, the Snake Fam got involved over the weekend and caps-lock ?respect Taylor Swift? was trending on Twitter for a long time. Taylor is hyper-aware of what people are saying about her, so she also responded:
Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back. How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse shit as FuNnY. Also, @netflix after Miss Americana this outfit doesn?t look cute on you ? Happy Women?s History Month I guess pic.twitter.com/2X0jEOXIWp
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) March 1, 2021
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| | Taylor Swift announces on GMA that she's re-recorded her album 'Fearless' | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift is so obsessed with her personal numerology that she decided to crash an already hectic news week. Today is 2/11, and 2 + 11 = 13, her favorite number, her lucky number. So today we got the long-awaited announcement: Taylor has re-recorded her album Fearless, which was one of the albums bought by Scooter Braun?s corporate consortium in the purchase of Big Machine. Taylor?s fans knew that she was working on re-recording her first six albums as a way to screw over Scooter Braun, who owns the original masters of all of those albums. The intention is to get the Snake Fam to buy up the new-old albums and devalue the Braun-held OG masters.
Taylor Swift made a brief appearance on Good Morning America today to share big news: More music is coming?old new music, actually. The singer revealed that the highly-anticipated re-recording of one of her biggest singles, 2009s Love Story, will come out at midnight. She is also releasing her full re-recording album of Fearless soon, and it will have 26 songs?more than the 13-track original. She didnt specify its exact release date yet.
I?m so excited to share with you that tonight at midnight, I?ll be putting out my version of my song Love Story, which was originally on my album Fearless, Swift started. I?ve now finished re-recording all of Fearless, which will be coming out soon. My version of Fearless will have 26 songs on it because I decided to add songs from the vault, which are songs that almost made the original Fearless album, but I?ve now gone back and recorded those so that everyone will be able to hear not only the songs that made the album but the songs that almost made it, the full picture.
The singers note included a hidden message. If you string together the capitalized letters, it spells out April Ninth?April is the fourth month of the year, and 4+9 = Taylors lucky number of 13.
[From Elle]
So she announces the re-recording on 2/11 and the Fearless re-recording will come out on 4/9. What will happen on March 10th though? I wonder! Oh well, at least she?s actually giving the Snake Fam even more new material, in the form of newly recorded old songs which never made it onto the original Fearless album. I?m actually very curious if Taylor is going to ?fix? some of the mistakes from the original recordings meaning, I wonder if she?s not just doing this to screw over Braun, but she genuinely wanted to change up the productions or arrangements on certain songs. Also, will she call this album Fearless too? Fearless 2? Fearless Redux? Fearless: Rise of the Snakes?
EXCLUSIVE: @taylorswift13 is dropping a new re-recorded version of her song ?Love Story? at midnight! She tells @GMA she has re-recorded her entire ?Fearless? album and gives us a sneak peek at the new cover! ?? #TaylorSwiftOnGMA https://t.co/UQUu2QuE6O pic.twitter.com/8ZvZBmvgiR
Good Morning America ?? (@GMA) February 11, 2021
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| | Taylor Swift & Joe Alwyn 'are in it for the long haul,' they 'totally see a future' together | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Since I?m not part of the Snake Fam, I sometimes forget that Taylor Swift has actually been in a very serious relationship for the past four years. Reportedly, Taylor met Joe Alwyn in the fall of 2016, just as she was ending things with Tom Hiddleston (RIP Tiddles). Joe and Taylor were pretty quiet about their relationship for months, but slowly she let the Snake Fam see bits and pieces of her thing with Joe. Throughout the past four years though? this relationship has just been different from anything she?s ever been through. She seems genuinely content with Joe and there hasn?t been the strong ?performative love? aspect, which has been common with other boyfriends. Sure, I think Tay and Joe look like brother and sister, but even I have to admit that they seem like a mature match and a good match. So, no surprise, we?re hearing now that Tay and Joe are in it for the long haul.
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn are in it for the long haul. The singer and the actor have been dating for about four years and appear to be stronger than ever. Just last week, they were photographed holding hands on a rare outing in London, where they are quarantining together.
A source tells ET, Taylor has gotten more and more comfortable being public with Joe and letting fans in on their romance in a way that she feels is still protecting it. She loves Joe so much and, of course, is not trying to hide their relationship, but she prefers to keep specific details private. Taylor and Joe are in it for the long haul and totally see a future with each other. They don?t need outside praise or attention and are so fulfilled just being with each other and growing together as a couple.
Alwyn and Swifts time spent together in quarantine, meanwhile, has been great for the pair. They even collaborated on her album, Folklore, with the actor under the pseudonym William Bowery co-writing a number of her songs, among them Betty and Exile.
Last month, another source told ET that the singers beau has been a great support system as shes dealt with not only the global threat of the coronavirus, but also her mothers health battle.
He is the one constant in her life that she can truly rely on, ETs source said. Joe has helped Taylor with her music, inspiring it. She is so grateful for him and in love with him. He is her cheerleader and rock. They have spoken about their future together and they love celebrating the holidays together.
[From Entertainment Tonight]
I do wonder if either of them wants to get married. I mean? four years, they live together, they collaborate with each other, they?re ?in it for the long haul.? Of course no one has to get married and of course marriage isn?t for everyone. I?m just curious about whether they?ve discussed it and decided that they don?t need it. Taylor?s fans are always eager to claim that Taylor will announce, any day now, that she and Joe got hitched, or that she?s wearing a wedding dress in some album artwork therefore they got married in quarantine or something. I always think back to that Graham Norton interview with Taylor and John Cleese, where he spoke about getting a divorce and Taylor joked about that being the reason she wasn?t married. I think she?s very aware of her wealth and how her business would be affected. Hm.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Taylor?s social media.
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| | Taylor Swift brought out her snow fairy vibes for her new album 'evermore' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Yesterday, Taylor Swift dropped the big, surprising news: she had secretly recorded yet another full-length album during lockdown this year, and this new album, evermore, was a companion piece/sister album to folklore. I assume this album will have tons of merch too! She?s gonna make so much money, even without touring. Anyway, the album dropped at midnight, as did the first video/single from evermore. This is ?Willow.?
To me, this is just soft, chill music to have on in the background. Good driving music too. But ?Willow? didn?t catch me like ?Cardigan? did, although that?s actually a pretty high bar, imo. I thought ?Cardigan? was one of her best songs/singles in years.
Taylor also released some lyric videos on her YouTube channel. Here?s ?Marjorie,? which is about her grandmother.
Here?s ?Champagne Problems? lyrically, this is kind of interesting. She?s basically like ?yeah, I?m rich and popular but damn, I hurt too!?
?Cowboy Like Me? I enjoy this one too.
Presented without comment.
YOU'RE TELLING ME Taylor Swift IS DROPPING A NEW COTTAGECORE ALBUM ON THE SAME DAY AS EMILY DICKINSON'S BIRTHDAY CALLED EVERMORE WHICH IS HOW EMILY DICKINSON CLOSED ONE OF HER MOST ROMANTIC POEMS THAT SHE WROTE FOR HER LOVER SUE GILBERT???? pic.twitter.com/NYeIymeihc
wassim'???'? (@tayIordspatroI) December 10, 2020
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| | Taylor Swift donated $13K to two Tennessee women facing economic hardship | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A few days ago, the Washington Post ran a story trying to encapsulate the dire economic situation millions of Americans are facing this pandemic year. With mass unemployment, people are behind in rent and utilities payments, not to mention all of the food insecurity in a cold winter around the holidays. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stalled every effort to pass another stimulus bill and thousands of people are dying everyday from a deadly virus. In the WaPo piece, several people were named and quoted as being thousands behind on rent and bills. Well, Taylor Swift read the article and she found the GoFundMe pages of two of the women quoted, and she donated $13,000 each to those women.
Taylor Swift continues to give generously. The folklore songstress recently touched the lives of two women who have been struggling financially due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Nikki Cornwell, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Shelbie Selewski of Harrison Township, Michigan were featured in a Washington Post article about shining a light on Americans who have been facing eviction, unemployment and struggling to pay their bills amid the crisis.
Evidently, Swift was moved by their difficult situations, and decided to help out by donating $13,000 to each to their GoFundMe campaigns. Swift also left a heartfelt personal message on each of the campaigns, sharing her love and support for the women.
Shelbie, Im sending you this gift after reading about you in the Washington Post, Swift wrote to Selewskis GoFundMe page. No one should have to feel the kind of stress thats been put on you. I hope you and your beautiful family have a great holiday season. Love, Taylor.
Swift also shared a touching sentiment on Cornwells GoFundMe page, writing, Nikki, I read about you in the Washington Post and thought it was really brave of you to share your story. Im so sorry for everything youve had to go through this year and wanted to send you this gift, from one Nashville girl to another. Love, Taylor.
[From ET]
Super-classy of Taylor and of course she used her favorite number (13) with the donation. Shocked she didn?t donate $13,013. And by leaving personal notes on their Go Fund Me pages, Taylor knows her donations will make news and draw more people to seek out those pages and maybe donate more. All that being said, this is not the way any of this should have worked! Fk Mitch McConnell, fk the Republican Senate and fk all of these Republicans who have failed to help Americans during the pandemic. McConnell *wants* President Biden to have to deal with a double-digit recession and mass unemployment in his first year.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Taylor Swift's fans doxxed a Pitchfork critic for giving 'folklore' a mostly positive review | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Years ago, I would feel a sense of dread whenever Taylor Swift put out an album. It wasn?t because I hated her music or anything, it?s because A) I hated all of the exhaustive and often juvenile backstories of Taylor?s many grudges, many of which were disseminated through lyrical ?blind items? and B) some people within Taylor?s fanbase, aka the Snake Fam, are incredibly toxic. It was less than one year ago just November 2019 when Taylor told her fans to ?let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel? about her business beef with them. The Snake Fam doxxed Braun and Borchetta, sent death threats to Big Machine employees and harassed Scooter?s wife.
I hoped that sh-t was over with Taylor?s new album. I hoped that her fans would mature with her, and that Taylor would have learned by now that it?s incredibly dangerous to weaponize her fanbase against her real or perceived enemies. So? what happened? Pitchfork reviewer Jillian Mapes gave a measured and mostly positive review of folklore, Taylor?s latest album. Mapes complimented the album but it was not a sycophantic ?TAYLOR IS THE BEST AT EVERYTHING? sort of piece. Which led to the Snake Fam doxxing this poor woman.
The calls started around 2 in the morning?an hour after Pitchfork senior editor Jillian Mapes? review of Taylor Swift?s eighth album, Folklore, posted on the site. It was a largely positive review. But it was not positive enough for a certain subset of fans, who began to use some of the internet?s dirtiest and most dangerous tactics to harass the writer who?d dared to scorn their queen with insufficient praise. Mapes? even-handed review deftly and artfully expressed Folklore?s strengths and weaknesses?and given Pitchfork?s historical skepticism toward popular artists, the piece might as well have been a rave.
But certain lines didn?t sit well with Swift?s most rabid fans. And perhaps more importantly, the 8.0 numerical score that accompanied Mapes? review?a metric determined not by the reviewer, but from multiple staffers? ratings?threatened to drag down the album?s aggregated Metacritic score. That, apparently, was an intolerable insult.
Various tweets, some of which have now been deleted or removed and some of which still remain, included Mapes? address and phone numbers old and current. Some have included photos of Mapes and even her home. Users have ?joked? about burning her house. Others have posted screenshots of a Halsey tweet responding to a bad review earlier this year?in which the singer wrote, ?can the basement that they run p*tchfork out of just collapse already.? Halsey deleted the tweet at the time after realizing that Pitchfork is, in fact, run out of One World Trade Center. Swift?s representative did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Despite these fans? insistence that their concern is the fairness and quality of the reviews Folklore receives, they really appear fixated on the album?s Metacritic score. Specifically, many lamented the possibility that Folklore could drop below a 90. At the time of writing, the album?s Metascore is an 89.
Music stans have begun using elaborate methods to boost new releases from their favorite artists in recent years. They coordinate streaming parties and create hours-long playlists and pool money to buy as many fans digital copies of new releases as possible. All of this aims to boost albums? and songs? chart positions by getting as many people listening for as many hours as possible, on as many platforms as possible. But in targeting a journalist like this, some fans have taken things to a dangerous extreme. And perhaps more importantly, this is not the first time that Swift?s most zealous fans have used doxxing and death threats to punish people they feel have wronged her.
[From The Daily Beast]
Yeah, again go and read the Pitchfork review. It?s clear that Mapes liked the album, and it was a pretty positive review. Even if Pitchfork had trashed the album, that wouldn?t be a ?good reason? to doxx some music critic, but the situation is even more ridiculous because the review was generally a rave. Just because the Snake Fam thinks Taylor farts rainbows and invented folk-pop doesn?t mean we all have to think that. There?s always a conversation about whether a celebrity can be blamed for their fans? actions. Last year, with Borchetta and Braun, I believed that Taylor was actively trying to weaponize her fans. In this situation, I think it?s just a case of some of her fans being way too extra. Could Taylor shut it down if she said something to them? I don?t know, honestly.
Photos courtesy of Taylor Swift, WENN and Avalon Red.
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| | Taylor Swift is 'happy to make a contribution' to 'The Folklore' business owner | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As we discussed, Taylor Swift is in some hot water. Or maybe just ?very warm water.? While Taylor dropped her latest album, folklore, with zero advanced press or fanfare, she did organize a huge merchandise campaign, and originally, the merch included the label ?The Folklore Album.? The labels looked a lot like the labels/branding for The Folklore, a Black-owned business. Amira Rasool owns The Folklore, and as soon as she caught a glimpse of Taylor?s merch, she contacted Taylor?s people. Taylor and Rasool?s teams have been talking and Taylor has already changed the labels, dropping ?the? from ?the folklore album.? Rasool said more to WWD:
When Amira Rasool saw the merch one week ago: ?I was so surprised and so shocked and it was really devastating. I saw it happen to small Black business owners, and I was really sad,? she said. She had her lawyers at Fenwick & West reach out to Swift?s team to let them know about the similarity in the logo design and how it was causing confusion in the market. Rasool said she had already received an e-mail from one of Swift?s fans inquiring about the album?s digital download.
This is interesting: ?The main thing was having ?The Folklore? when the album was just called ?Folklore,? Rasool said. She also believes there was similarity to the way the word ?the? in the logo was vertically placed. She said if one Googles ?The Folklore,? Rasool?s logo comes up, and she feels Swift?s people would have seen that. Swift is making sweatshirts and merchandise, along with a cardigan that ties in with one of her songs.
Taylor?s management?s statement: ?Yesterday, we were made aware of a complaint that the specific use of the word ?the? before ?Folklore album? on some of the Folklore album merchandise was of concern. Absolutely no merchandise using ?the? before the words ?Folklore Album? has been manufactured or sent out. In good faith, we honored her request and immediately notified everyone who had ordered merchandise with the word ?the? preceding ?Folklore Album,? that they will now receive their order with the design change.?
What The Folklore is all about: The Folklore, a New York-based web site that received its trademark in 2018, features more than 30 designers from Africa and the diaspora and serves as a cultural hub for contemporary brands, artists and creates to showcase their personal stories. Most of the fashion, accessories and homewares are handmade by local artisans based in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco and Cote D?Ivoire. In addition to operating as an online concept store, The Folklore also provides wholesale services to African designer brands interested in penetrating the global retail market. ?It?s not just damaging to one Black woman, it?s all the brands that we work with,? Rasool said. All of her web site?s merchandise says ?The Folklore? on its hangtags, but the actual designer?s name is on the inside label. Rasool said she eventually plans to make merchandise with ?The Folklore? label.
The snake fam attacked Rasool: Rasool said Swift?s fans were attacking her on Twitter for speaking out ?and calling me b?h and a liarShe [Taylor] has stood up and defended her trademarks before. She?s a big proponent of people standing up and speaking out. For me to be attacked and say I?m doing this for attention?,? she said. People on Twitter were vehement, saying there was no similarity in the logo?s design. But the name is the same. ?I think there was a lot of damage to my brand for me speaking out. I don?t think I deserved that.?
[From WWD]
Interesting how WWD dropped the most important legal issue in there Rasool owns the trademark for ?The Folklore.? And before last week, ?The Folklore? site was one of the first hits on Google, so clearly? people on Taylor?s team did not do their due diligence before the merchandise was made. I also think the statement from Taylor?s team doesn?t make much sense ?Absolutely no merchandise using ?the? before the words ?Folklore Album? has been manufactured or sent out.? Clearly, the merch was manufactured. The merch was not sent out, because they began changing the labels (to the merch which was manufactured!). I mean, how did Rasool know there was an issue if the merch had not already been manufactured, you know?
Anyway, all of that to say, Taylor did respond to one of Rasool?s tweets yesterday. I feel like Taylor is trying to do right. Now. After her team clearly fked up and after her unhinged fans attacked Rasool online. Also: ?contribution to your company? might be code for Taylor paying a quiet settlement for stepping all over Rasool?s trademark.
Amira, I admire the work you?re doing and I?m happy to make a contribution to your company and to support the Black in Fashion Council (launching on 8/3) with a donation ?@thefolklore @amirarasool @bifcglobal #blackinfashioncouncil
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 30, 2020
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