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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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| | Celine Dion cut her hair into a cute summer bob | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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If it?s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, we can count on three things: 1. Celine Dion is going to go to Paris; she?s going to be rocking a new hair style; and she is going to wear an eclectic mix of fashion. A couple of weeks ago, Kaiser wrote the first installment of this year?s Celine Goes to Paris in the Summer, ?Where is Pepe??
Continuing a summer trend from last year, Celine lightened her hair; she also cut it into this really cute shoulder-length bob! I always want to grow my hair out, but every summer I chop it off because the heat and humidity make it unbearable, so am Team Celine here. I love the light blonde color and the cut on her; both say ?easy-to-manage, fun, summery ?do.? I think sometimes people end up going too blonde when they lighten their hair, but this shade looks great on Celine. It looks even better in some of the other photos.
In one of the photos of Celine in this outfit, you can?t see the entire shirt, only the ?I HEART Paris.? I think the photographer took it that way on purpose. The ?Hilton? kind of kills it for me. GFY says that the shirt is Vetements. I think the skirt and shoes are cute, but the blazer-poncho is distracting me because I?m confused by it. At first, looking at one of Getty?s images, I thought that she was wearing a regular blazer and had her left arm in the [too-long] sleeve, but not her right arm (for some reason). Then I realized that the way the blazer was draped over her right arm made that impossible. GFY mentions that it?s a poncho, but I still don?t like it because blazers or ponchos should never look confusing.
One thing that makes this photo fun is that she?s wearing a recreation of the Heart of the Ocean necklace that Rose wore in Titanic, also made by Vetements. (I love that the Yahoo! article frames this as the ?I love Paris Hilton? shirt ?accessoriz[ing]? the necklace, not the other way around.)
Celine seems to be into feathers at the moment; she wore this long-sleeved feathery white Valentino dress with abstract multicolor accents last week to the Valentino show in Paris. I actually think this is cute; the feathers make it seem light and summery, but I question the long sleeves and turtleneck; isn?t Paris in the middle of a heatwave, too? I also love her gold clutch and silver heels.
There are also photos of Celine performing on July 5 in London in this puffed-sleeve sparkly blue jumpsuit. I doubt that too many people could pull off this color without looking ridiculous; Celine just looks like she?s having a ton of fun. My first thought when I saw it was that she looked like she was wearing an outfit that had been made to match the shade of blue, sparkly Crest toothpaste. Or the Titanic necklace.
People should wear what they love and what makes them comfortable; I love that Celine seems to always enjoy whatever she?s wearing. She?s often photographed smiling and looking relaxed when she?s dressed up, rather than standing stiff as a poker or adjusting her outfits. I always love seeing pictures of Celine in Paris in particular, because she appears to be having a great time and living her best life.
Photos credit: WENN and Avalon.red
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