#I’m assuming because it was dismissed/settled out of court/NDAs involved etc

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#cnn just had a special about the shake it off lawsuit #which I’d never really read up on #and while I absolutely don’t believe that Taylor plagiarized the person’s song #and could absolutely believe she’d never heard of it #(cnn pundits: this song was everywhere! it was a hit! it was always on TRL!) #(me around the same age: legitimately have never heard of these people) #I kinda feel the professional thing for her to do would have been to credit them regardless once it was known #the same way she did right said Fred for lyymmd #or the way OR ended up having to for DV #because I feel like there’s more similarity between the complainant’s song and sio #than there is between CS and DV #(read: not much at all) #especially given the optics of the power dynamic and communities involved #and while I don’t know the details and frankly cnn’s reporting was incredibly flawed and didn’t answer its own thesis #I’m assuming because it was dismissed/settled out of court/NDAs involved etc #and I’m sure Taylor’s team held fast because they don’t want to open the door to future suits for other songs and become a target #for people wanting to make a quick buck and exploit her fame #but the one good point they made was that giving 50% credit or whatever would be a drop in the bucket for her but go a long way to support #artists protecting their work and especially African-American artists whose work has been historically diminished and stolen #especially when she’d later set the precedent for her work herself with lwymmd and on the flip side with OR #idk as a swiftie the obvious angle of the episode was irritating because they definitely had an agenda #but that doesn’t mean that points weren’t made #tag novel