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MINI SCROLL: Sabrina Carpenter & Barry Keoghan split, Away taps celebrity lookalike winners + Deadmau5 x Lights tour drama · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
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  media, the creator economy and the digital space every Monday
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  through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  Welcome back to Mini scroll everyone, and welcome back to my
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  glitter Smokey eye. I did this makeup look like 2
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  days ago and so many of you guys were like, that is a sleigh eye
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  look. Please bring it back.
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  So I did and actually 2 days ago, the reason why I had that
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  like different type of makeup. I didn't even have a wing.
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  I didn't even have a wing. I never have no wing.
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  That is like the wing is my safety net.
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  That is like one of my most millennial qualities is that I
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  always have to have a wing. I have literally been doing a
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  liquid wing, like a liquid eyeliner wing on my eyes every
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  single day since I was like 15. But the reason why I didn't have
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  1-2 days ago and why I don't have 1 today is because I was
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  copying that like viral Mary Kate and Ashley makeup look
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  that's everywhere on TikTok right now.
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  I think it was from a New York minute premiere.
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  They're like 17. Like they're so young.
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  They look so good, but it's like very fresh faced nude, glossy
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  lip. And then their eyes just have
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  like, the most amount of like, glitter, smoky with some thick
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  mascara. So I was copying that makeup
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  look, and I really love it, especially for the holidays.
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  Anyways, let's get into the stories for today.
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  That's enough talking about my makeup.
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  So the first right that I have for you guys is that Sabrina
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  Carpenter and Barry Keegan have reportedly broken up.
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  OK, so this couple was together for about a year.
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  They were first LinkedIn December 2023.
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  And after months of rumors about them possibly being together,
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  they kind of confirmed something was going on between the two of
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  them when they took photos together at the Met Gala.
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  They didn't attend together and they walked the red carpet
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  separately, but they took a lot of photos that gave couple.
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  And then one month later in June, he starred as her love
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  interest in Please, Please, Please her music video.
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  So that was another like, OK, something's probably going on.
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  And yeah, like, they have been very low key.
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  It seems like they've been on and off this whole year.
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  You know, she did sing about him at one of her, I think it was
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  her LA concert. She like, swapped out one of her
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  lyrics and put his name in it when he was at the concert.
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  So they seemed to be still kind of something.
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  However, a source did tell Us Weekly that they took a break a
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  few months ago. However, this reported split
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  from this morning is like a new split and a recent 1.
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  And I think if the tabloids like People and Us Weekly and stuff
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  are talking about it now, like covering it, like sources,
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  quote, UN quote are claiming that it's true and they're
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  covering this as, you know, alleged fact, then I think it's
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  very clear that this is probably done.
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  I need to know, does anyone else feel like they were just not a
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  real couple? There is just something about
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  them I just never believed. I do not believe that they were
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  actually in a relationship. I know she sang about him a lot
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  on Short and Sweet, like her album, but I don't know,
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  something about their relationship just felt so like
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  fabricated PR vibes to me. And I have a very hard time
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  believing that they were actually ever in a relationship.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys, I got this story
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  from LinkedIn, which is so cursed.
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  LinkedIn. I actually said this a few weeks
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  ago. I think it was on the pod.
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  But like LinkedIn is becoming more and more like a news media
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  site, like a news media platform the same way that like TikTok,
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  Instagram, you know, all of these social media platforms
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  eventually turn into kind of like entertainment or news
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  sites. Like that is like the direction
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  that LinkedIn is going in unfortunately.
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  Well, or maybe unfortunately, I don't know, LinkedIn is so
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  cursed. But this is really funny and I'm
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  glad that I saw it on LinkedIn. So away.
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  The luggage brand has partnered with a bunch of the winners of
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  the big celebrity look alike competitions in the US that have
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  been going viral everywhere. And they've partnered with them
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  as like, influencers, like in a latest influencer campaign.
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  So they've tapped the winner of the Jeremy Allen White
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  competition. And in his imagery, he's
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  standing in front of a Mr. Beef restaurant holding the luggage.
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  They got the Timothy Chalamet competition winner, and he's
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  wearing a Wonka costume holding the luggage.
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  And then they got the Dev Patel competition winner, and he's
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  sitting at an airport gate with the luggage.
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  And then the slogan of the campaign is even look, alikes
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  travel with the real thing. I think this is the perfect
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  example of what I talk about all the time with our clients,
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  whether it's like brands that we're working with in
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  advertising or like consulting, whatever it is, there is no way
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  to tap into youth culture unless you have someone who is on your
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  team who is like working in marketing or social, who is
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  chronically online and like understands the minute to minute
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  updates of the cultural zeitgeist.
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  Like specifically online, because these look alike
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  competitions. I bet you if I asked like half
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  of my friends, probably even more than half of my friends,
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  because a lot of my friends are in like finance, tech law, you
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  know, like very offline, very like quote UN quote, like
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  serious, like adults, you know, like industries and big girl
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  jobs. They would probably have no idea
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  what I was talking about If I said, have you heard of the
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  viral celebrity look like competitions going on
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  everywhere? So this is like the perfect
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  example that away. Obviously, I mean, always,
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  always been really good at this stuff, but this is specifically
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  like so online and it is so of the now, right?
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  Like this is something that is happening over the just like the
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  last few weeks and it's going to stop happening, right?
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  Like these are going to kind of come in and out.
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  Like it's it's a trend that's happening right now.
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  This is such an incredibly niche partnership.
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  It's obviously a little bit cheesy, but it shows that they
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  are super tapped into youth culture.
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  They're going after that Gen. Z dollar and it shows obviously
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  that they're like willing to have fun.
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  They're not going to take themselves too seriously.
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  I love this, OK? And the last word that I have
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  for you guys. So the Raise Your Weapon
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  vocalist is calling out Dead Mouse on TikTok for erasing her
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  role in the iconic song. This is giving millennial.
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  But I haven't seen anyone else report on this yet.
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  And I think it's about to get a little bit bigger.
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  I think it's like starting to gain some traction.
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  So I wanted to chat with you guys about it, tell you what's
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  happening and get your perspective because this is a
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  really interesting story. And I don't have a lot of like
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  music industry experience. Well, I don't I don't actually
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  have any. But Alex, who does all of our
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  partnerships at Centennial, she actually was a music industry
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  girly for like 5 or 6 years before working for us.
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  So I was asking her opinion on it.
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  And there are just like divided opinions.
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  So I just want to hear from you guys.
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  OK, so artist Gretis Fabo Beck has taken to TikTok to try and
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  basically like take back her voice.
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  She's saying she claims that Dead Mouse has been touring with
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  other women who are lip syncing over her vocals or to her vocals
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  during live performances like tours and concerts.
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  And these women have been basically getting the credit for
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  her vocals. The song is, as I mentioned
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  before, it's Raise Your Weapon, which is obviously like such an
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  iconic dead mouse song. It was released in 2010.
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  It has 77 million views on YouTube alone.
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  I don't know what the streaming data is.
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  It's one of his signature songs. And it's a song that I think a
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  lot of people that really love the artist and love EDM music.
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  I, I was seeing a lot of people talk about how this song has
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  like helped them through hard times.
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  It's, it's just like, it's a really powerful song.
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  So I think it's either currently right now or just happened, but
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  Dead Mouse is or was touring with Canadian artist Lights.
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  And so Lights I guess is the most recent woman to like lip
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  sync over Greta's vocals. Fun fact, I actually loved
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  Lights back in the day as a Canadian girlie myself.
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  She was like one of my favorite artists for like a period of
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  time in high school and I was so obsessed with her aesthetic and
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  her look and I was desperate to look like her to like have her
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  entire vibe. So I actually bought, I think I
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  was maybe in like grade 9 or 10. I bought like real.
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  So I had black hair. I went through many phases.
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  I had jet black hair. I would just like box dye my
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  hair black. And I had purchased like super
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  long thick extensions, like black clip in extensions that I
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  would use. And then of course, I would have
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  the huge like emo millennial bang.
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  That's exactly what Lights's hair looked like back then.
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  I was obsessed with Jessica Simpson in that way.
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  And I always tried to like look like her and be like her.
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  And then I moved on, I guess, to Lights, and I feel like they are
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  incredibly different aesthetics. But that sums up my high school
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  experience. OK, so here's what Greta had to
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  say. I.
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  Get tagged in lots of posts from dead masters.
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  In the videos it is my voice but another singer is miming.
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  If she's not miming, her voice is so low in the mix you can
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  only hear me. Seeing these videos made me
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  realize as a singer my voice and my identity are intertwined.
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  It's one thing not giving credit, but when someone else is
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  actively taking credit for your voice, it's like they're taking
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  a part of your body and saying it's ferrets.
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  It's intentional. It feels like an assault on my
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  identity and my livelihood as a singer.
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  Now, there are mixed opinions on this.
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  She never said what was happening was like a breach of
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  copyright or anything. So I think it's pretty clear
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  that, you know, whatever is happening on this tour with Dead
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  Mouse and using her vocals and people lip syncing and stuff
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  like that, I don't think there's any breach of contract or
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  anything illegal about that. I think she's basically just
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  wanting credit. If they're going to use her
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  vocals in all of these tours, she's just saying like, I want
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  credit for that. And I should also note she did
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  not write the song. Like she didn't write the
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  lyrics. She was just the vocalist.
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  So in replying to a comment asking why she's never toured
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  with Dead Mouse to sing the song before herself, she wrote that
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  she was not offered the opportunity.
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  Quote, Nope, not once. I offered for the latest tour
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  but was ignored. So for this to happen, dot dot
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  dot blows my mind. So yeah, I think the weird part
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  it's it's like Alex was saying it's unethical.
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  Like it's surely not illegal, you know, but like it is
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  unethical. Like, why would these artists
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  not just saying the song live themselves?
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  But yeah, I would love to hear what you guys think of this
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  whole situation. I feel very bad for her.
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  You know, it would be hard to see that, especially coming up
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  on her for you page and things. I'm assuming that's, like where
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  she's seeing this. She says she's been tagged in
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  videos all the time of people, like, lip syncing over her
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  vocals in these shows. And she just kind of seems like
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  she just got fed up. Yeah.
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  I would love to hear your perspective on this.
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  And that's all for today, guys. Thank you so much for listening
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