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Im no Swifty but has she ~~rally~~ really exploited people to get to this level of wealth?
Im just talking about the actual money here and not her carbon footprint or whatever.
Indirectly? Absolutely. Directly? Almost certainly, but it would depend on what you mean by 'rally'.
Apologies for the typo, I meant really.
As to my understanding TS made so much money cause she couldn’t get her masters and so re-recorded them herself and her fans bought them. Essentially taking the lions share which would normally go to the record companies. I don’t see how that is a bad thing, but I’m open to learning how it could be.
You could argue she enables high ticket prices for concerts or whatever but again the artist is as beholden to TicketMaster and RockNation as the fans are.
I don’t know much about her charitable work, but I think if you’re a billionaire you could always do more, that said aside from giving it all away at once it’s pretty hard to lose money once you’re that rich.
She can certainly do more to be eco-conscious though.
I actually sound like I’m into her, which I’m really not. Just wanted a discussion.
She could set her own prices for tickets on her personal site and tell ticket master to eat it.
Not really.
TicketMaster have a monopoly and with rocknation they control the venues too, so artists really have no choice otherwise they would be performing in local bars rather than arenas.
Cant remember which channels now but many people have covered this issue on YouTube and other places where you can learn more.