Taylor Swift

Two songwriters had sued Swift, claiming that she copied their lyrics for 2014′s “Shake It Off,” Reuters reported. Sean Hall and Nathan Butler dropped their ...

[Variety ](https://variety.com/2022/music/news/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-lawsuit-dropped-1235458220/)reported. [Reuters ](https://www.reuters.com/legal/taylor-swift-songwriters-agree-end-shake-it-off-copyright-case-2022-12-12/)reported. Swift’s attorneys also asked the judge to dismiss the suit, Variety reported. [BBC News](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63956480) reported. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/legal/taylor-swift-songwriters-agree-end-shake-it-off-copyright-case-2022-12-12/) reported. [RIAA](https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=shake+it+off#search_section).

Ticketmaster sent an email to select fans informing them they will have a "limited opportunity" to purchase no more than 2 tickets for one of Taylor Swift's ...

Justice Department launched an inquiry](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/live-nation-ticketmaster-investigation-taylor-swift.html) into whether Live Nation has abused its power in the multibillion-dollar live music industry. [apology](https://blog.ticketmaster.com/ticketmaster-verified-fan-request-taylor-swift-the-eras-tour-2023/) on its website and said select fans will receive staggered invitations to purchase tickets based on tour dates in each city. Ticketmaster echoed this sentiment in a statement. The investigation began before the Swift ticket sale outrage. Immediately following the presale, scalpers were attempting to resell Swift tickets for up to US$28,000 ($37,430). In a statement, Ticketmaster wrote it sold more than two million tickets and fielded 3.5 billion system requests, which is four times its previous peak.

A lawsuit filed against Taylor Swift alleging that she stole lyrics for her hit 2014 song 'Shake It Off' has been dismissed by a US judge.

Teddy Coward [are still fuming over the recent Ticketmaster debacle](https://whynow.co.uk/read/taylor-swift-tickets-what-can-be-done-to-help-fans), which has left many unable to see her touring [her latest, record-breaking](https://whynow.co.uk/read/taylor-swifts-midnights-best-selling-record-of-2022) [Midnights album](https://whynow.co.uk/read/midnights-taylor-swift-review). Now though, a judge has dismissed the case “in its entirety”, just over a month out from when the case was due to go on trial, on 17 January.

Taylor Swift chatted with "The Banshees of Inisherin" director Martin McDonagh as part of Variety's Directors on Directors interview series.

"I definitely feel more free to create now. I'm just going with it." "The few that I reached out to were fortunately booked ... "And when I did direct, I just thought, 'This is actually more fulfilling than I ever could have imagined.' " "No, I always wanted to tell stories," Swift said. "I have always written stories, poetry, songs.

The singer was facing a lawsuit from two songwriters who claimed she plagiarised lyrics from a 2000 song called “Playas Gon' Play” by the girl group 3LW.

[Taylor Swift](/topic/taylor-swift) stole lyrics to her hit song “Shake It Off”. “Shake It Off” features the lyrics: “The players gonna play, play, play, play, play and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.” The singer was facing a lawsuit from two songwriters who claimed she plagiarised lyrics from a 2000 song called “Playas Gon’ Play” by the girl group 3LW

Taylor Swift and the two songwriters who accused her of copyright infringement on 'Shake It Off' have agreed to dismiss the lawsuit a month before it was ...

[filed her own legal declaration](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-lawsuit-declaration-1394425/) in which she discussed the origins of ‘Shake It Off’”’ and denied any copyright infringement. “Prior to writing ‘Shake it Off,’ I had heard the phrases ‘players gonna play’ and ‘haters gonna hate’ uttered countless times to express the idea that one should shrug off negativity.” The dismissal caps off a five-year legal battle that started in 2017 and was set to head to trial in January. Swift repeatedly rebuffed the claim, with her lawyers arguing that lyrics about “players” and “haters” were a common trope and not singular enough to be covered by copyright law. Lawyers for the songwriters who brought the suit, Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, also did not return a request for comment. Lawyers for the defendants — which also included

Taylor Swift feels happier releasing music more often than she did in her 20s. The Shake It Off singer revealed in a conversation with Martin McDonagh for ...

Lawyers from both sides dismissed the case on Monday (12 December), just a few weeks before the proceedings were set to begin in court.

In 2018, the writers claimed that the chorus to “Shake If Off”, in which Swift sings “players gonna play, play, play, play, play” and “haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate”, infringed the “I recall hearing phrases about players play and haters hate stated together by other children while attending school in Wyomissing Hills, and in high school in Hendersonville,” Swift said in the declaration, using childhood stories to evidence her point. Back in August, the singer issued a statement in defence of the song saying “the lyrics to ‘Shake It Off’ were written entirely by me”. The lawsuit claimed that “Shake It Off” included “substantial similarities” to “Playas Gon’ Play”, written for band 3LW in 2001 by Hall and Butler. The case was originally filed in 2017, dropped and then appealed,and a judge ruled that it would go to trial, meaning the verdict would be decided by a jury. Lawyers from both sides filed the papers that dismissed the case on Monday (12 December), just a few weeks before the proceedings were set to begin in court.

Certain Taylor Swift fans who got Verified Fan codes from Ticketmaster but weren't able to score tickets last month are getting a second chance.

She said she refused to “make excuses” for a company that according to her had repeatedly assured her team it could handle the demand her tour would create. An FAQ on the Ticketmaster website explains that fans who got the email will have an opportunity to buy a maximum of two tickets to a Swift show. Meanwhile, in Mexico, a consumer-protection official said Ticketmaster México would be fined millions after hundreds of faulty tickets were sold for Bad Bunny shows last Friday and Saturday in Mexico City. But it sounds like the process is designed to roll out on a more controlled timeline than the original crush did. [received an email Monday](https://twitter.com/kristaferrara/status/1602308507495464961) from Ticketmaster saying, “You have been identified as a fan who received a boost during the Verified Fan presale but did not purchase tickets. Bots and “fans who didn’t have invite codes” were blamed.

Hall and Butler sued Swift and producers Max Martin and Shellback in September 2017, seeking statutory damages, compensatory damages and injunctive relief, ...

"...I recall hearing phrases about players play and haters hate stated together by other children while attending school in Wyomissing Hills, and in high school in Hendersonville. ABC News also reached out to Hall and Butler's representatives for comment. The case was dismissed in 2018 by Fitzgerald, but the U.S. The suit claimed that Swift's song "copies and includes Plaintiffs' lyrical phrase ... "Indeed, the combination had not been used in popular culture prior to Plaintiffs' original use." The case was originally set for trial next month.

Taylor Swift reflected on directing "All Too Well" in an interview with Martin McDonagh for a new Variety interview.

Swift was on the cusp of 21 when she was in this relationship with an older partner. In it, Swift shines as a director, giving directives to the smallest things like hand placements and wording. It’s structured narratively in a way that I felt had to be different than any music video I’ve made,” Swift said. The pop star recently sat down with director Martin McDonagh for [Variety](https://variety.com/2022/film/features/taylor-swift-director-all-too-well-hearbreak-martin-mcdonagh-1235456137/) to discuss directing her [All Too Well: The Short Film](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-all-too-well-ten-minute-short-film-1257075/). “Emotionally, I was going through exactly what the short film depicts, and I think that time is such an incredible asset to use when we have these stories that are hard to tell,” she told the Banshees of Inisherin director. “I wanted to tell that story, too, about sort of girlhood calcifying into this bruised adulthood.”

From "Tim McGraw" to "Anti-Hero" with hits and Swiftie-loved cuts in between, vote for the one you like most on her birthday.

In the age of her re-recordings, Swift has given her fans even more music, including vault tracks such as “Mr. The superstar rang in her latest birthday on Tuesday (Dec. But it wouldn’t be a birthday-appropriate [poll](https://www.billboard.com/t/poll/) if we didn’t include “22” alongside the hopeful “Begin Again” and 1989 tracks such as “Blank Space,” “Style,” emotional closer “Clean” and bonus cut “New Romantics.”

Variety ranks Taylor Swift's best songs, with hits and deep tracks from albums like 'Speak Now,' '1989,' 'Folklore' and 'Midnights.'

When “Midnights” first came out, with none of the songs pre-issued to the public, if you weren’t paying attention to video premieres or that sort of splash, you might have taken “Anti Hero” as one of the odder songs on the album, not a sure out-of-the-box hit. It’s just universal enough to get that kind of usage in American customs and rituals, but you have to savor the bits that are pure Swift, whether it’s the guitar-string scars on her fingers or her custom-made vow: “Swear to be overdramatic and true.” Wait, is it her entire public she’s pretend-marrying, as well as this guy? It’s a wedding song for people who don’t intend, right away at least, to get married — there’s even a fakeout wedding scene in the middle of the song that ends with them vowing in front of God and onlookers to be, well, lovers — but anyone who wants to use it for actual nuptials probably gets a pass. So much of the “Fearless” album came to be about the bracingly candid breakup songs, or embracing the fairy tale, in “Love Story,” and rejecting it, in “White Horse” (and “Fifteen,” for that matter). This leads to one of the greatest lines in all of Swift-dom: “I swear, I’m only cryptic and Machiavellian ’cause I care.” Is she kidding with that lyric? You should not have these people as your friends.) So it was the beginning of a correction in the popular mindset when, for her third album, “Speak Now,” she made a point of writing a song for an ex-boyfriend in which she took credit for what went wrong and expressed apologies and regrets — normal human actions, in other words, for someone who was not the narcissistic teen wraith some of the culture had set out to make her. It’s good that Taylor doesn’t really believe that “forever is the sweetest con,” and good that she’s stretched out to the kind of writing where she can create a character to say it. With “Out of the Woods,” one of the most talked-about tracks from “1989,” it’s really enough to know what the emotional tenor of the scenario is, and not who she spent a night in the emergency room with. The telling way in the choruses that she keeps answering “good!” to every repetition of the “Are we in the clear yet?” question lets you know that this is a protagonist who constantly has to talk herself into believing that everything’s fine. Meanwhile, I suspect there’s a musical joke embedded in the title, which is written as a numeral, the way a musician would render it, versus “the one.” At the end of the chorus, the word “one” begins on the last note of one bar and slides over to the next, where it lands on… This is a kind of sequel, in spirit, to “Blank Space.” In that one, she was still playing at being the bad girl, for satire. A song about why a relationship that’s escalated for some of the wrong reasons can’t help but feel right when you throw that slinky a groove on it — and throw in something Swift has never employed from her arsenal before: a solo saxophone.

It's here! It's finally Taylor Swift day. Today the pop singer is celebrating her 33rd birthday and while Swifties honour the occasion, we do understand that ...

Her success is due to the nature of her songwriting — and our constant replay of her latest album. The ambience is warm and relaxing just like a Cardigan. Fans dedicate their time, for example, to look for the precise moment of her life she sings about in her All Too Well song — and SPOILER ALERT!— it’s about her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal. However, in the face of all adversity, Taylor Swift keeps coming back stronger and stronger. Sometimes, though, you don’t have to look too far, as songs like Dear John and Styles name-check her former boyfriends, John Mayer and Harry Styles, directly in the title. If there is something Taylor knows how to do, it’s to beat a bully.

She included a snapshot that showed her sitting on the floor with a double bass laying across her lap while Antonoff strummed on an acoustic guitar on a ...

The Ticketmaster site was so flooded by traffic that it actually crashed; seen in November And the Grammy Award-winning artist took to Instagram to thank her devout fanbase for flooding her with 'beautiful wishes'; Swift seen in September Many pre-verified fans were left waiting in a virtual line for hours while others were unable to purchase tickets at all. I spent my 33rd birthday in the studio of course [side-eye emoji] Wouldn't have it any other way. 'Thanks for all the beautiful wishes today!! In the studio: She included a snapshot that showed her sitting on the floor with a double bass laying across her lap while Antonoff strummed on an acoustic guitar on a chair beside her

The pop megastar said she 'wouldn't have it any other way' as she shared a picture of herself with collaborator Jack Antonoff.

[Sound](/topic/sound) from The Hunger Games. [Carolina](/topic/carolina), which was produced with Aaron Dessner of The National for the film Where the Crawdads Sing. [MTV Video Music Awards](/topic/mtv-video-music-awards) for the video.

The pop megastar said she 'wouldn't have it any other way' as she shared a picture of herself with collaborator Jack Antonoff.

This achievement helped her make history as the only solo artist ever to be honoured with two best direction awards following her win at the 2020 award show for the music video for The Man. She took home the coveted best video, best longform video and best direction gongs earlier this year at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards for the video. Prior to its release the singer-songwriter received a string of accolades for her music videos, including her short-film for hit track All Too Well.

Two songwriters have dropped their lawsuit claiming Grammy-winning musician Taylor Swift copied their lyrics in her 2014 number-one hit "Shake It Off,"

appeals court revived it in 2019. Monday’s court papers, filed jointly by attorneys for both Swift and the songwriters, did not say if there was a settlement. In “Shake It Off,” Swift sings: “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”

By only discussing fatphobia in the context of eating disorders, Taylor Swift illustrates how deeply individualized and depoliticized white feminism is.

In identifying fatphobia as primarily about women’s looks, Swift and others obscure the [structural and material oppression experienced by fat people](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670607/belly-of-the-beast-by-dashaun-harrison/) Here, fatphobia is a personal flaw rather than a [systemic social issue](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95935-7_6). [mock media misogyny](https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1976586). Moments like this come up [regularly in feminist politics](https://theconversation.com/mask-or-no-mask-stop-using-fat-people-in-political-cartoons-176631) and rejecting a fat activist critique is a missed opportunity for coalition. As author [Sonya Renee Taylor writes](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565139/the-body-is-not-an-apology-second-edition-by-sonya-renee-taylor/), “From LGBTQIA bodies, to fat bodies, to women’s bodies, we live under systems that force us to judge, devalue, and discriminate against the bodies of others.” Swift’s defenders dismiss and demonize fat activists, aligning them with stereotypes of [fat women as unruly](https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739114872/The-Embodiment-of-Disobedience-Fat-Black-Womens-Unruly-Political-Bodies). [Feminists have argued that eating disorders do not exist in a social or cultural vaccuum](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520240544/unbearable-weight), but this argument has stopped short at fat acceptance. According to Swift, fame and public scrutiny of her body was [a major contributor to her eating disorder](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/taylor-swift-miss-americana-disordered-eating-body-image). [power away from the term “fat”](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/197420/fat-so-by-marilyn-wann/9780898159950) and use it as a neutral descriptor. But how does removing the term “fat” water down a specifically feminist message unless fat is seen to be a feminist issue? Taylor Swift’s music video, where she looks down at the scale where it says “fat,” is a shitty way to describe her body image struggles. In the scene, Swift’s two selves, the real her and her “anti-hero” character, are in a bathroom.