Exactly. The people complaining have no understanding of how record labels work, and how they dick over their artists.

Edit. Holy crap, what did I miss? Came back to read new comments and it's all deleted. The person even deleted their account. People be cray.

Then maybe you can explain to her that both are real and both are Taylor.

Once upon a time there was a teenager named Taylor Swift who wanted to be a singing star. She could sing and write songs but she didn't know how to produce them, which means get them on the radio so people can hear them, and get on stages for concerts, and make money from selling them. A business man said, I can make you famous if you promise I can own all your original songs. That way I'll get some money every time they get played, and you'll get some too. So she promised. And she wrote and sang lots of songs, and did concerts and worked hard, and became famous, and she got paid money but she felt a little sad that he owned all her songs.

And then one day he sold all her beautiful music to a mean bully. She tried to buy them back, she had plenty of money now, but the bully said "NO. They're mine!" Well, Taylor was mad. And she was grown up now. And she had learned a lot about how to do all the business part of producing. So she decided to use her own money and make new versions of every single song she'd ever done, with all the things she had learned, and add some new songs as well. She got to work, and it was a lot of hard work because she knew some people were going to like the original version better but she hoped some would prefer the new ones. Or at least they would be interested to compare them. And that's just what happened. All her Swifties loved having new familiar songs to sing and dance dance dance to, and talk about which version they liked best. And they agreed it's okay to disagree about which version is better. Because they're all Taylor, just at different times in her life.

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I guess I should add,

And there were also a lot of guys who got really mad because she was famous and had money and was pretty and she only seemed to be interested in her fans and her friends and her boyfriend and not THEM. So they say nasty stuff about her. Especially a certain orange chicken taco man really hates her because she didn't want him to be President. He won anyway. Sometimes life is like that, and we just gotta shake it off, and go on doing our best to help make a good life in a good world.

Is that what all the Taylor's versions are all about... I guess i'm too old to be her target audience

Wow, she already is stuck in a nostalgia bubble and can't tell that the newer recording is objectively better? I'm not even a Taylor fan but the original release of Shake It Off is clearly inferior to the newer "Taylor's Version".

Everyone taking her side like "ohhh won't someone pleeeeease have sympathy for this blood-sucking billionaire?!?!?!" in here make me SICK.

FUCK OFF

You are correct and so is Marte.

I think I mayhave heard 2-3of her songs, so no Swiftie here.

She's a Billionaire. She creates value. She offers it to people who willingly buy it.

Nothing like billionaires who manipulate markets, hoard resources, or land, or housing.

Yes, I've heard the jet controversy, and there are other questionable things, I'm sure, but in the Billionaire context, I'd say she's on the decent side of the spectrum.

She's OK by me.