i was in my car in atlanta on the tenth and 14th bridge going over the split when i heard shake it off. first thing i thought was the track was amazing and then the hit came in the players going to play, play, play, i m just going to shake, shake, shake, shake it off how does a person feel when they come home and feel like their house has been robbed? that s how i felt. players going to play, play, play, play you have the cream of the crop artists and taylor swift is the top. she s a modern pop star but old fashioned as it gets. she believes in magazine covers and performances on late night tv. a lot of the traditional ways for artists to be in the public eye. she is the biggest artist like in the world. she s just like rolling in dough. taylor swift had yet another massive year. she dropped her midnights album that rose to the top of the charts. you got the ticket master debacle literally crashes the website because ticket master can t keep up
call a newspaper and then it s a national news story. it s easier to handle that when a sense of humor. one magazine headline said it best, taylor swift is the music industry. we were used to seeing taylor swift as like this kind of sweet, strumming the guitar talking about the boy next door and here she is standing up and got backup dancers and like i m hip. i m cool. i m not here for the haters but she s not been able to shake off the com vntroversy of the song. people i ve been with in the business for years said you know what you re doing, right? i said yeah, but i have to. i have to say something. i have to do something. when i first got into the music business, i was 17. back then it was kind of like you had to pay to get in the studio so that kind of weeded out a lot of people. getting bills was a situation. everyone has a deal now.
scrubs. the first line of a song. a scrub is a guy that thinks he s fly and also known as a busta heller. that s what a scrub is and now the whole world knows it. with the taylor swift shake it off case, it s almost a non-starter because it was thrown out by the first judge who heard it. judge w. michael fitzgerald dismissed the case saying combining the phrases players gonna play, haters gonna doesn t doesn t worry copyright infringement. the judge said that particular phrase was too brief, too unoriginal, too common basically to be a legitimate copyright claim. when you re a songwriter, you pride yourself oncoming up with new fresh lingo, phrases, ways
permit me to watch trl until i was about 13. the lyrics of shake it off were written strictly by me with unrelenting personal scrutiny of my personal life. led zepplin jim my page. katy perry is not the only one dealing with a lawsuit like this. we ve seen this with a lot of artists like sam smith. sam smith and armoni. more legal trouble for ed her ron. dua lipa taking two lawsuits. she s facing two copyright allegations. one from a reggae group. and then another from a pair of composers. who say that the song is actually based on a song that
After a lengthy legal battle against pop star Taylor Swift, plaintiff Sean Hall speaks with CNN on how decades of cultural appropriation have shaped the music.