A funny thing happened when I typed in ITAUGHTTAYLORSWIFT dot com.
It spun me to an article in the Daily News about how Taylor Swift wanted a fat-faced bald-headed parasitic dipshit to CEASE AND DESIST from using her name for HIS profit. His website now takes you to the Daily News page, instead of self-promotion from a fat-faced smug weasel.
The irony is that the first line of the Daily News piece is "So much for gratitude."
"So much for GRATITUDE?"
This schmuck did NOTHING. He happened to show a teenybopper a few chords. He was NOT her teacher. He was NOT her mentor. He did NOT create Taylor Swift.
But he wanted to make money off her just the same, and DAMN the Daily News and DAMN all the maggot-minded bastards of the world: you lampreys have NO right to a free ride.
The big excuse is "Aww, come on, you're making ALL the money. Be generous. Let people make t-shirts with your face on them, let them download your music free, let them enjoy a piece of your pie."
How about "it's the principle of the thing," you fuckheads?
All these 21st Century parasites have the same mantra: "Freedom of Speech" and "Don't ruin our fun." Their rationale of course is the same whether it's Taylor Swift or Livingston Taylor. Whoever it is, it's a celebrity, and a celebrity has no rights.
"Hey you, give us your music free, and make money selling t-shirts." "Hey you, let US sell t-shirts with your name and face on them, and undercut YOURS."
Taylor Swift, like Prince, like Gene Simmons even, is standing up for ALL artists. These people can only stop the jerks on Etsy and Ebay for their own work, and file DMCA's against blogs for their own music. They lead by example, but unfortunately, not too many are following, mostly because most celebrities are so needy they want to be LOVED by EVERYONE. So unless they hire Web Sheriff and pretend it's their corporation or their label and not THEM (Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, etc.) they just shrug and figure, "Yes, the great unwashed are right, I'm making enough. And besides, if they want to they can hack me anyway. Better surrender what they want since they could take it by force."
People, including the fucking Daily News, don't seem to understand the principle of MINE. As in, "This is MINE. You can't take it." That's why people lock their doors. This is why stores have security. This is why there's copyright. This is why you resent it when a fucking professional panhandler demands YOU give him money. EVERY fucking day.
Many performers not only copyright their work, they trademark their names and their song titles or catch-phrases. Why the fuck should some jerk attract attention to himself by using Taylor Swift's name and make it seem like he's authorized to do it? That sends the wrong message, a message of exploitation and abuse.
In the Daily News piece, they noted that Buzzfeed (oh, what a grand source) had reported on Taylor's team cracking down on Etsy people. These are the creeps who take any celebrity's face and toss it on a cigarette lighter. What if Taylor Swift doesn't want to endorse smoking? Etsy assholes, and eBay assholes, find anything from key chains to mousepads, and simply insert a celebrity's photo into them. Why should they make easy money? What's their talent? They don't ask. They don't do it for charity. They're just parasites.
Taylor Swift, at the moment at least, is some kind of role model. Maybe she's dumped too many boyfriends. Maybe there are some things that aren't perfect about her. Maybe her music isn't so great. But damn, compared to Viley Virus and the rest, she's Saint Joan.
PS, Taylor Swift and the other classy women out there (few though they might be) don't need to be taken down to the level of visual rape that EBAY sanctions.
Note that the pervert selling this shit is so evil, so desperate for his five bucks, he deliberately spells her name wrong so her management won't find his ad. But all the pervs and desperate losers who buy his other shitty "fantasy" items will check his list and find it. This is just another side of the mediocre cretins who jealously want to carve their names into a celebrity's life.
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