r/Music • u/ebradio • 14h ago

article Taylor Swift sparks chart-blocking accusations with new “Patient Zero” alternate versions

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/taylor-swift/taylor-swift-sparks-chart-blocking-accusations-with-new-patient-zero-alternate-versions
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u/DynamiteDuck 13h ago

No one becomes a billionaire without loving money first and foremost

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u/Fractal-Infinity 12h ago

Ask yourself, who gave her that money? Did she steal them, did she exploit people? It was unavoidable since The Eras Tour generated so much demand, hence income. She made her money fair and square. Blame the society for allowing that, not her for simply doing her job.

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u/BeansArePastaSauce 8h ago edited 8h ago

Doing her job?!?! Surgeons do their job, grocer workers do their job, sanitation workers do their job. These services are needed and we need good people doing those jobs. Taylor’s “job” is not needed and no one “needs” her doing it. You make it sound like she’s “just doing her job” as a pediatric oncologist.

And hell yes she exploits people. She created and encourages parasocial relationships with her fans. Many of those fans were/are young girls. They have a deep deep dependency on her to bring community, joy, and meaning into their life & in order to do that (and in order to keep
up and keep status in the fandom), many fans buy whatever and all that she sells. And she knows this. It’s toxic and exploitive.

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u/AliceJane1999 8h ago

A funny comparison since most Americans go bankrupt from having no choice but to pay the surgeons and oncologists hundreds of dollars an hour, not from buying a $20 Taylor Swift album of their own volition.

But I’m of the opinion that of the billionaires, Taylor is one of the least exploitative, with all of her worth coming from her own work or that of well-compensated collaborators and staff.