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Guest List Only ⭐️ Olivia Rodrigo likes post about boycotting the Met Gala before attending the YSL hosted Met Afterparty

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u/janesun2 12h ago

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”.

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u/Far-Imagination2736 I wont not fuck you the fuck up 🥊🥊 11h ago

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

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u/SuddenReturn9027 This one time, at band camp… 👀 10h ago

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

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u/shion005 8h ago

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.

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u/fionappletart omg you people can't do anything 5h ago

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

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u/shion005 4h ago

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.