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Monday Mini: Women Owning Music in 2021 · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and that kind of
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  Speaker 1: stuff I've never told your production of I Heart Radio.
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  Speaker 1: And we are going to time stamp this one because
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about some things that are ongoing or changing.
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  Speaker 1: Today is December one. I feel like the listeners are
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  Speaker 1: getting a real behind the curtains peak of how much
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  Speaker 1: we recorded one day stuff for a time stamping. But
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  Speaker 1: we have to or we will be told. This is
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  Speaker 1: our date. We know, yep, yep, it was in date
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  Speaker 1: most exactly in date up to date. So yes, as
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned in our previous Monday Many, we are coming
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  Speaker 1: to the end of one and we wanted to do
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  Speaker 1: a few episodes rounding up some amazing stuff women have
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  Speaker 1: been accomplishing recently that have been in the news, and
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  Speaker 1: this is our our musical edition of ladies smashing some
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  Speaker 1: records and being absolute powerhouses. And breakups, so many breakups.
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  Speaker 1: All the breakups, I will say, some of the women
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about. I have been listening on Spotify
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  Speaker 1: and every time my partner goes should I be worried?
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  Speaker 1: What are you trying to say to me? What is
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  Speaker 1: happening me too? I've been listening to them a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I have songs from all of these women on my
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  Speaker 1: Tragedy fan fiction playlist. Oh yeah, I did. I did
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  Speaker 1: tell him at one point. I was like, look, let
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  Speaker 1: me just pretend like we broke up and be sad. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I just need this. That is a fan fiction plot.
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  Speaker 1: That is a fan fiction plot that actually featured the
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  Speaker 1: first person we're going to talk about, Rotterego perfect. But
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  Speaker 1: they're also on my sad but Hopeful more a beat
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  Speaker 1: fan fiction playlists. These women, Let's start with Olivia Rodrigo,
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  Speaker 1: who was just named Entertainer of the Year by Time
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  Speaker 1: magazine at just eighteen years old. Rodrigo, who already had
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  Speaker 1: a fan base thanks to her work with Disney, released
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  Speaker 1: the single Driver's License in January, and it took off
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  Speaker 1: a TikTok staple that was also featured on an SNL
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  Speaker 1: skit which we talked about on this very show actually,
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  Speaker 1: when we talked about like sad, Like why do we
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  Speaker 1: get these love songs that are so sad? Why do
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  Speaker 1: they speak to all of us? Yes, And she actually
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  Speaker 1: later ended up performing that song on SNL and Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: people of all ages and backgrounds have really loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Really connected to the teen angst of it, all of
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  Speaker 1: it all, Yes, Yes. On January one, she became the
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  Speaker 1: youngest solo artist ever to debut at number one on
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  Speaker 1: the Billboard Hot one hundred. The song remained on the
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  Speaker 1: Billboard Hot one hundred for eight weeks. In May one,
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  Speaker 1: she debuted her album Sour, and it was praised by
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  Speaker 1: critics and fans alike. Sour became Spotify's most popular release
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  Speaker 1: by a female art in the first week, with three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five million streams. The album garnered seven
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  Speaker 1: Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist and Song, Record and
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  Speaker 1: Album of the Year. Spotify announced she had the most
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  Speaker 1: dream album and Song of the Year, and she appeared
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  Speaker 1: at the White House to encourage young folks to get vaccinated.
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  Speaker 1: So a big year for her, And we should say, like,
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  Speaker 1: we are condensing a lot of what these women have
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  Speaker 1: accomplished to this year here alone. We know they're really
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  Speaker 1: huge all the years. Yes, yes. And also a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the women were talking about have kind of broken
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  Speaker 1: each other's records, like really recently, right, So there's also that,
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  Speaker 1: but still a lot a lot. While Rodrigo will return
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  Speaker 1: for season three of the High School Musical series, she
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  Speaker 1: has also said quote songwriting is the thing I take
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  Speaker 1: most seriously in my life. It's the most personally gratifying too,
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  Speaker 1: and it's something she's been doing since she was very young. Um,
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  Speaker 1: And in light of what's going on with Taylor Swift,
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  Speaker 1: which we are going to get to, she has a
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  Speaker 1: deal with her record lay Able to own her masters,
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  Speaker 1: that is the copyright to the recordings of her songs,
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  Speaker 1: something that hasn't traditionally been granted to artists. She has
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  Speaker 1: faced accusations that her songs sound similar to others. She
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  Speaker 1: credits Swift and two members of Paramore on her tracks
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  Speaker 1: two separate checks, and she's been open about how it's
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  Speaker 1: been frustrating to have her creativity called into question, but
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  Speaker 1: also that it has been a learning experience about the
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  Speaker 1: business side of music, something she claims it's absolutely critical
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  Speaker 1: as a musician. And this is part of a bigger
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  Speaker 1: conversation which we don't really have time to get into
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  Speaker 1: right now, but we are going to touch on more
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  Speaker 1: about influence and crediting and yeah, ownership in the music industry.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's really a big conversation right now. Um,
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  Speaker 1: here's another quote. Young women are constantly compared to each
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  Speaker 1: other I'm the new this are this woman meets that woman,
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  Speaker 1: and that could be reductive. I'm just Olivia. I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: my own thing. It's meaningful when people recognize that. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I will say, I don't know many of our songs.
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  Speaker 1: I think I can recognize one or two because even
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  Speaker 1: though yes, teenage jas can't travel all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm I'm eavesdropping on the younger kids,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, I'm like, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to be listening to those I think
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  Speaker 1: this is not for me, Like, not because I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to. It's just more of a permission. Wise, am
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  Speaker 1: I supposed to? I don't know, but I know she
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  Speaker 1: does a good job and she's got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the fields. And speaking of the fields, we have to
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  Speaker 1: talk about within this season of broken hearts, Adele releasing
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  Speaker 1: her newest album, thirty Perfect. Her single easy on Me
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  Speaker 1: quickly swept through all the hearts that I've ever been broken,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was a paper cut or the deep tear
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  Speaker 1: that still makes you tear up today though it happened
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  Speaker 1: way back in second grade. I still think about you, Matt,
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  Speaker 1: just kidding, I don't and her album became one of
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  Speaker 1: the fastest selling albums in one and this being only
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  Speaker 1: her fourth album since her original album nineteen So it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of funny because she doesn't release often, so therefore
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  Speaker 1: we anticipated so much more and it is a bigger deal. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and it's highly anticipated by not only her fan base,
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  Speaker 1: but again most people with hearts. Right if you have,
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  Speaker 1: My mom loves Adele and I I was like, right
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  Speaker 1: when I heard this, I pre ordered it. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's a Christmas gift because I couldn't wait. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Well also stuff like that most likely she would buy
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  Speaker 1: for herself exactly. Uh and yeah, and her standards and
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  Speaker 1: ideas have brought on a new functionality on a mega
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  Speaker 1: music app Spotify. As a woman with a specific intent
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the craft, she has been able
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  Speaker 1: to convince Spotify to change this default option of shuffling
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  Speaker 1: the album by having the album play as it is
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  Speaker 1: laid out in her records. In this intent, she tweeted,
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  Speaker 1: this was the only request I had in our ever
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  Speaker 1: changing industry. We don't create albums with so much care
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  Speaker 1: and thought into our track listing for no reason. Our
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  Speaker 1: art tells the story, and our stories should be listened
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  Speaker 1: to as we intended. Thank you Spotify for listening. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And yes there came a lot of mixed reactions because
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  Speaker 1: people love the shuffle button. I am one of those,
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  Speaker 1: mainly because I am still scarred by iPod when you
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  Speaker 1: would create the car fit was plugged in that the
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  Speaker 1: one song kept playing every time and you end up
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  Speaker 1: hating it. I really think that was the generation for me.
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  Speaker 1: Not gonna lie um and which Spotify responded on their
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  Speaker 1: Twitter anything for you, as they should. But they did
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  Speaker 1: also release a statement saying, quote, as Adele mentioned, we
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  Speaker 1: are excited to share that we have begun rolling out
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  Speaker 1: a new premium feature that has been long requested by
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  Speaker 1: both users and artists, to make play the default button
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  Speaker 1: on all albums. Again, this is from a spokesperson from
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  Speaker 1: Spotify talking to cnn UH. They continue, for those users
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  Speaker 1: still wishing to shuffle an album, they can go to
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  Speaker 1: the now playing view and select the shuffle toggle. As always,
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  Speaker 1: we will continue to iterate our products and features to
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  Speaker 1: create the best experiences for both artists and their fans.
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  Speaker 1: And we know Spotify has kind of a spotty his
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  Speaker 1: record when it comes to yeah, I did it. When
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  Speaker 1: it comes to how they treat their artists. Just recently,
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  Speaker 1: all the comedians are slowly pulling off their albums because
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  Speaker 1: they're not giving the credit in the monetary compensations that
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  Speaker 1: musicians are, So we do see a lot of that,
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  Speaker 1: but it's good to see that they're talking listening to
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  Speaker 1: one artist, I guess and to no one's surprise, her
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  Speaker 1: single broke the most stream song in a day this
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  Speaker 1: previous month, so she's been breaking records as well. And
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  Speaker 1: if you need some more Adele, as we all do,
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  Speaker 1: she has signed on for a residency in Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: which is to start in January of twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 1: at the Colisseum of Las Vegas Caesar's Palace hotel, titled
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  Speaker 1: Weekends with Adele. I like this and we'll perform two
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  Speaker 1: shows each weekend through Saturday, April two for twelve weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Andy can we go? I wonder if we can get
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  Speaker 1: the company to pay for it. We needed to make
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  Speaker 1: this need to the other day, I was listening to
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  Speaker 1: Adele and I was drinking wine and that song wide
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  Speaker 1: Game on and I was sitting there like wine, wine,
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  Speaker 1: I only soak up wine makes me laugh, and then
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  Speaker 1: you climb into it and then I, UM, now, yes,
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  Speaker 1: so we have to talk about Taylor Swift, who has
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  Speaker 1: also had a huge record breaking year. But before we
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  Speaker 1: get into that, let's go back to this master's thing.
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  Speaker 1: So this is really complicated and we're gonna try to
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  Speaker 1: condense it. UM. I imagine a lot of you have
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  Speaker 1: looked it up. But briefly, Taylor Swift masters have been
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  Speaker 1: sold three times without her consent. Swift's former label, Big
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  Speaker 1: Machine Record Label, was acquired by artist manager school Or
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  Speaker 1: Braun's Ithaca Holdings LLC, and Taylor Swift and Braun do
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  Speaker 1: not have a good relationship, to say the least. Swift
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  Speaker 1: calls him a bully and said he was quote the
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  Speaker 1: definition of toxic mail privilege in her industry. Um and
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  Speaker 1: Braun then sold the masters to her first six albums
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  Speaker 1: from her debut album to Reputation UM to a private
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  Speaker 1: equity firm called Shamrock Capital and for three hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The urn back value is speculated to be around four
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  Speaker 1: fifty million dollars, though some think that thanks to Swiss actions,
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  Speaker 1: the value could be substantially less. Um and She's been
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  Speaker 1: very open about her unhappiness with this and how she
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  Speaker 1: feels she was not given a viable option to purchase
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  Speaker 1: the masters herself. She said, quote, the fact is that
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  Speaker 1: private equity enabled this man to think, according to his
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  Speaker 1: own social media post, that he could quote buy me.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm obviously not going willingly. By not owning her masters,
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't benefit from them. She can't control how they're
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  Speaker 1: used in terms of things like movies are television and
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  Speaker 1: is limited and what she can perform at concerts. So
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  Speaker 1: this is ten years of her life, her life's work,
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  Speaker 1: out of her control without being consulted about it at all.
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  Speaker 1: In an effort to listen the value of these masters,
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  Speaker 1: Swift pledge to re record them herself, a pledge she
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  Speaker 1: has so far upheld. Her contract allows for this after
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  Speaker 1: a certain amount of time has passed. Like normally there's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty long period, but um, she probably has one
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  Speaker 1: that's shorter as like just the album cycle period. When
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  Speaker 1: she signed her a new contract with the Universal Music Group,
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  Speaker 1: she secured ownership of all albums she would create with them,
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  Speaker 1: including the re recordings. Yes, very very savvy. This year
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  Speaker 1: she recorded and released Fearless and Read Taylor's version Um.
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  Speaker 1: When Red was released in November one, Spotify announced it
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  Speaker 1: broke two records in one day, one for the most
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  Speaker 1: streamed album by a woman in Spotify history, with eight
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  Speaker 1: million streams, beating the previous record held by Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 1: with seven eight point seven million streams fores album Folklore.
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  Speaker 1: She also broke the record for most stream female artists
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  Speaker 1: in a single day with one and twenty two point
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  Speaker 1: nine million streams. She broke a record held by the
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  Speaker 1: Beatles for over fifty years in the UK with the
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  Speaker 1: fastest run of successive number one albums ever. Her ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes song All Too Well. Taylor's version broke the record
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  Speaker 1: previously held by Don mcclean's American Pie for longest song
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  Speaker 1: to hold the top spot on the Billboard Top one
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  Speaker 1: hundred for the longest period of time. That us a
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  Speaker 1: very specific keep going. That's a big one for like
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  Speaker 1: a long song to hold that spot for that long.
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  Speaker 1: And so this song that's like fifty years before she
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  Speaker 1: broke it, I think in between and so she sent
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  Speaker 1: mcclaim flowers and he was like, oh, this was the best.
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  Speaker 1: She also broke the record for most songs on the
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  Speaker 1: Billboard Top one hundred simultaneously by a woman. The twenty
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  Speaker 1: six songs from read Taylor's version and just if y I.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout her career, she set thirty world records. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: do think Adele some of the records you mentioned broke
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  Speaker 1: some of these records. I'm pretty sure I can't remember
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  Speaker 1: because I came out around the same time. So who
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  Speaker 1: out did the other either? But like, okay, I just
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  Speaker 1: said the previous month, I'm going to just hold to that.
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  Speaker 1: I think they can't. Yeah, they did come out right
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  Speaker 1: around the same time. I think Adele came out a
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  Speaker 1: little later, but anyway, trying. Oh but this whole thing
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  Speaker 1: is jump started a conversation around yeah, ownership of music
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  Speaker 1: and the treatment of female artists. This isn't the first
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  Speaker 1: time Swift has been vocal about how the music industry
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  Speaker 1: screws artists and songwriters over financially and otherwise. She started
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  Speaker 1: a whole conversation about streaming services like Spotify and artist
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  Speaker 1: conversation um, like we were talking about with Scarlett Johansson
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  Speaker 1: in our previous episode. Swift is one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: musicians out there, So if this is the kind of
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  Speaker 1: deal she is getting, think of what artists without her
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  Speaker 1: resources and further impacted by intersections like Race are getting
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  Speaker 1: um and also younger artists. It's another example of women
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  Speaker 1: facing off against mainly male lead industrial leaders just to
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  Speaker 1: get what they're do. She's definitely not the first artist
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  Speaker 1: to speak out about this by far. Prince was very
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  Speaker 1: outspoken about his belief that artists should own their music,
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  Speaker 1: and the Beatles, TLC, Kelly Clarkson and Kesha have fought
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  Speaker 1: to get their masters back, among others. So very big conversation.
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  Speaker 1: But this whole thing is also changed the industry. Fans
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  Speaker 1: and corporations, including I Heart, which is interesting because we
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  Speaker 1: don't technically own this, um have pledged it all my
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  Speaker 1: listen to the Taylor's version of her songs, which so
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  Speaker 1: far have surpassed listenership of the originals, and a short
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  Speaker 1: amount of time Olivia Rodrigo spoke about how this influenced
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  Speaker 1: her to make sure she got ownership, as we discussed earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Music labels meanwhile, are putting in stipulations preventing artists from
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  Speaker 1: re recording their work. So like trying to get around right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you there's all these like sneaky things. Because
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  Speaker 1: when we were talking about previously about the mandatory arbitration,
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  Speaker 1: it was specifically after people started suing for not giving
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  Speaker 1: them their wages and or any discrimination, and they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're having to pay too much in legal fees and
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  Speaker 1: oh they may win lots more money than we want
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  Speaker 1: to give them. So after that happened, that's when they're like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna steak this in so you can't
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  Speaker 1: sue us and we don't have to pay you a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money and we can still look good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this aftermath thing is interesting. Yeah, yeah, it's annoying. It's
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  Speaker 1: very annoying for a lot of reasons because, like, again,
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  Speaker 1: if you can't afford a lawyer, or I can just
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  Speaker 1: imagine being so excited to get a deal and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that I think it's okay, and then
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  Speaker 1: you sign it and then later like what, well, I
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  Speaker 1: mean you and I could talk about it personally without
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  Speaker 1: even just jobs and having to learn from previous hosts
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  Speaker 1: and me coming in with no money, like I can't
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  Speaker 1: afford the all or how did y'all do this? No
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  Speaker 1: wonder people just signed on the dime line because they're like,
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  Speaker 1: well it's more than I was making. Yeah. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: that's why having those having women speak up about it
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  Speaker 1: and kind of share their experiences and what they learned
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  Speaker 1: is so so so important. And yeah, if I I know,
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  Speaker 1: I joked about this with you, Samantha, but I was
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  Speaker 1: looking at all the albums she has left to rerecord
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  Speaker 1: or she continues that if I was anybody who had
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  Speaker 1: done her wrong, I'd be raising funds to buy her
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  Speaker 1: masters to get them back so rerecorded. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: definitely this like oh this name of like the past
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  Speaker 1: exos who are running away like they have. So many
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  Speaker 1: of the Taylor Swift fans or people just in general
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  Speaker 1: are like, oh, they better watched their backs. That's happening,
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  Speaker 1: that's coming yep, yep ye. And those conversations about militant
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  Speaker 1: fan bases, the power of nostalgia, which is I find
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  Speaker 1: really interesting because I've heard a lot of people who
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  Speaker 1: are like, I remember listening to this when I was
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  Speaker 1: so much younger, and now it's it's like still resting
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  Speaker 1: um current lawsuits that Swift is facing, weaponization of memory.
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  Speaker 1: Those their topics for a different day. Uh, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is a huge conversation that is happening, right, And
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to talk a little bit just quickly
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  Speaker 1: about the current laws, So that has happened over infringement
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  Speaker 1: rights for the song shake It Off, which we know
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  Speaker 1: she kind of did some copyrighting of specific phrases and such.
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  Speaker 1: But this actually started in seventeen by songwriter Sean Hall
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  Speaker 1: and Nathan Butler, who wrote the songs play is Gonna
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  Speaker 1: Play for three l W three Little Women really cute
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  Speaker 1: little hip hop group if you don't know. It was
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  Speaker 1: originally dismissed in eighteen by the US the Street Court,
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  Speaker 1: but has been repelled and is set to go to
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  Speaker 1: court in August two. And it's big news because they
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  Speaker 1: are actually having to go to court, uh, instead of
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  Speaker 1: just doing settlement. So it's going to be an interest
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  Speaker 1: conversation for sure. Yes, and we will see how that
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  Speaker 1: plays out. Um. And then we wandered around this this
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  Speaker 1: list out with Megan the Stallion, who topped TikTok's usage
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  Speaker 1: catalog for the second year in a row. It's true, um.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have gone through TikTok like I have,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the dances. I will say one of her
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  Speaker 1: big songs kind of missed one of the day's routines
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  Speaker 1: because it was a winter of Black Creators stopped. It
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: was like you try it yourself, and it was quite comical.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: We did talk about it because the instructions were there
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: and still did not happen. But all that to say, um,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and then there has been a bit of drama with
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Megan the Stallion, so we didn't want to talk more
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: about that, not talking about exactly her past abusive relationship
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: with Tory Lanes forget him. But we're actually talking about
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: more battles with the labels. And one of the battles
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: happened with BTS, which is the big hite pop group
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: that we all know and love, with the remix of Butter,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: which by the way, is one of the number one songs. UM.
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  Speaker 1: Even with song's success in the Billboards number one spot
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: for over nine weeks, Megan's lawyers had to sue her
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: label fIF one after the label claim quote the song
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  Speaker 1: would not be good for her career and requested on
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: top of that a hundred thousand dollar fee for it
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  Speaker 1: to be even released and would take the profits of
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the song. So all of these things happened because they
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: would not release the song. Her lawyers had to request
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: a restraining order to quote keep the label from stopping
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the release. So they were just gonna flat out and
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: do this. Um. There's so many questions, including from Megan,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: why there was such a pushback from them, with even
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Megan having to remind them the value of international exposure
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: from this massive group, the collaboration which has been talked about,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: like they've been kind of talking about it back and
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: forth on Twitter, wanting to collaborate, and everybody was really
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: excited about it, and it was getting a lot of publicity. Uh.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: She was granted the order by a Texas judge and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: has since then released a single which is fantastic. If
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you haven't heard it, definitely, I'm not listening. Um. And
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: this is the second law. So she just had to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: file against her record label in order to release her
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: own work, which by the way, again was her previous album,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: which is on some of the top of the charts,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: including in TikTok Hello Um. She's also requested to be
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: released from the record contract, but at this point, I've
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: not heard anything about that, if that's going to happen
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: or it's even going into court. And of course we
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: have to talk about the amazing fans who always has
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to take that extra step after the legal implications of
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the release of the remix of Butter. Fans of both
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: artists raised over a hundred thousand dollars in support of
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Megan and donated to organizations like Black Women for Wellness,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Women for Afghan Women, and the Houston Food Bank. So amazing.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: When we talk about the fan bases, my gosh, they
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: get done, that's all. And also we wanted to tell
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: our personal friend, I wish Megan congratulations on her graduation
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: from Texas Southern University with a Bachelor of Science degree
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: in health administration, and she tweeted, good morning, Hattie's it's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: graduation day. I can't do it like her, so we're
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: not even try hashtag Megan the graduate and talking about
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: all the women who have been influences in her life,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: including her late mother and her grandmother's She also talked
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: about the possible future plans, saying, you know what, I'm
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: going to open an assisted living facility and use the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: money that I make from wrapping to open it. Then
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let my classmates run it. So I love
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: that idea. I love that she continues to push forward
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and grows. This is beautiful, Yes, yes, Chess, all of
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: this so inspiring. We're seeing women really shaking up things
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and getting like technologies to change, love it, love it,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and we get all this fantastic music out of it. Well, listeners,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: are there any artists that have been on your playlists
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: at the end of the year, Any songs we should
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: shout out, Any artists we should shout out? Please let
• 21:47
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• 21:49
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• 21:51
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• 21:53
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• 21:56
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