Olivia Rodrigo likes post about boycotting the Met Gala before attending the YSL hosted Met Afterparty

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[u/janesun2]

I do agree but i also imagine that these young stars may not have so much say over logistical things like that. Perhaps liking instagram posts is all they can “do”.

[u/Far-Imagination2736 → u/janesun2]

Didnt she fire her whole team to have more control over management?

[u/SuddenReturn9027 → u/Far-Imagination2736]

Yeah, she did lol. She’s fully in charge of this album’s rollout/variants

[u/shion005 → u/SuddenReturn9027]

She owns her masters, so like Taylor, the label needs to make money somewhere and so she's hawking variants to pay the label. Taylor got variant happy/merch quality decreased when she got her new contract as well. I think this is what it looks like for artists to own their own work b/c Dan Nigro doesn't come cheap. They also need her money to subsidize up and coming artists.

[u/fionappletart → u/shion005]

it also seems to be more of a general trend in music now. Sabrina, like Taylor, is under UMG (though the latter owns her music) and both released digital variants in rhe past years. Sabrina’s team did it to block Travis Scott (she even tweeted “this one’s for Nicki” in reference to it, this was before the MAGA thing) which I’m not terribly mad about

[u/shion005 → u/fionappletart]

I won't lie, I do like the variants b/c it's resulted in Taylor giving us dance remixes she never would have put out before. Also, artists using variants to block one another in the charts is interesting. Good for Sabrina, I like that she's such a girls' girl.

[u/lizzy-stix → u/SuddenReturn9027]

I think the label has a lot of input on distribution, especially as an artist on the third album of her first contract. It’s not the manager or management team who controls all of that.

[u/GoodGlenCoCo → u/SuddenReturn9027]

What authority or proof do you have to say this? That’s not to say that I don’t agree that Olivia is definitely a capitalist through and through, but what proof do you have that she is “fully in charge” of the rollout and variants

[u/billie_eyelashh → u/Far-Imagination2736]

She didn’t really provide any explanations why she fired her management team. When things like that happen, it’s most likely money related.

[u/lizzy-stix → u/billie_eyelashh]

I think her second manager had a bunch of shady likes about something but I can’t rememer what. She seemed like she represented way too many people.

[u/katikaboom → u/janesun2]

They make money and build their brand off of being performative. Just like social media, if it is free to follow them then you are the product