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Songs Against The Suits

In light of the ongoing acrimony between Taylor Swift, the boss of her former label and the mega-manager who purchased that label, a list of songs of artists railing against the powers that be.
Taylor Swift, performing in Shanghai, China on November 10, 2019. The pop star has been embroiled in a public dispute with the head of her former label and the company he sold it to over the right to perform her songs publicly.

On Thursday night, Taylor Swift in her ongoing battle with the two men she considers the captors of her legacy. In an emotional Tumblr (is there any other kind for Swift?) she claimed that Scott Borchetta, the chief executive of Swift's former label Big Machine, and Scooter Braun, the mega-manager who that label for $300 million in June, are preventing her from performing songs from her Big Machine catalog — the bulk of her work — at this Sunday's American Music Awards ceremony, where she this claim; and so this complicated saga involving artist rights, label investments and the complexities of copyright continues. ( a good recap of the whole affair.)

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