Taylor Swift

Two songwriters had sued Swift, claiming that she copied their lyrics for 2014′s “Shake It Off,” Reuters reported. Sean Hall and Nathan Butler dropped their ...

[Variety ](https://variety.com/2022/music/news/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-lawsuit-dropped-1235458220/)reported. [Reuters ](https://www.reuters.com/legal/taylor-swift-songwriters-agree-end-shake-it-off-copyright-case-2022-12-12/)reported. Swift’s attorneys also asked the judge to dismiss the suit, Variety reported. [BBC News](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63956480) reported. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/legal/taylor-swift-songwriters-agree-end-shake-it-off-copyright-case-2022-12-12/) reported. [RIAA](https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=shake+it+off#search_section).

A lawsuit filed against Taylor Swift alleging that she stole lyrics for her hit 2014 song 'Shake It Off' has been dismissed by a US judge.

Teddy Coward [are still fuming over the recent Ticketmaster debacle](https://whynow.co.uk/read/taylor-swift-tickets-what-can-be-done-to-help-fans), which has left many unable to see her touring [her latest, record-breaking](https://whynow.co.uk/read/taylor-swifts-midnights-best-selling-record-of-2022) [Midnights album](https://whynow.co.uk/read/midnights-taylor-swift-review). Now though, a judge has dismissed the case “in its entirety”, just over a month out from when the case was due to go on trial, on 17 January.

Pennsylvania Attorney General and Governor elect Josh Shapiro announced that Ticketmaster will be offering new opportunities for consumers to purchase ...

Certain Taylor Swift fans who got Verified Fan codes from Ticketmaster but weren't able to score tickets last month are getting a second chance.

She said she refused to “make excuses” for a company that according to her had repeatedly assured her team it could handle the demand her tour would create. An FAQ on the Ticketmaster website explains that fans who got the email will have an opportunity to buy a maximum of two tickets to a Swift show. Meanwhile, in Mexico, a consumer-protection official said Ticketmaster México would be fined millions after hundreds of faulty tickets were sold for Bad Bunny shows last Friday and Saturday in Mexico City. But it sounds like the process is designed to roll out on a more controlled timeline than the original crush did. [received an email Monday](https://twitter.com/kristaferrara/status/1602308507495464961) from Ticketmaster saying, “You have been identified as a fan who received a boost during the Verified Fan presale but did not purchase tickets. Bots and “fans who didn’t have invite codes” were blamed.

The AG's Office said they have registered thousands of consumer complaints after heavy demand for pre-sale tickets caused outages on Ticketmaster's website in ...

"Emails will be sent to pre-sale registered fans for the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia shows in the coming days," according to the AG's Office ["a new round of ticket opportunities](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/taylor-swift-tour-philadelphia-lincoln-financial-field/) will be coming to Pennsylvania consumers," the AG's Office said on Twitter on Tuesday morning. [Taylor Swift](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/taylor-swift-eras-tour-ticketmaster-additional-tickets/) fans will have another opportunity to buy tickets to her upcoming and highly anticipated "The Eras Tour" thanks to the [Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/taylor-swift-eras-tour-tickets-ticketmaster/).

Hall and Butler sued Swift and producers Max Martin and Shellback in September 2017, seeking statutory damages, compensatory damages and injunctive relief, ...

"...I recall hearing phrases about players play and haters hate stated together by other children while attending school in Wyomissing Hills, and in high school in Hendersonville. ABC News also reached out to Hall and Butler's representatives for comment. The case was dismissed in 2018 by Fitzgerald, but the U.S. The suit claimed that Swift's song "copies and includes Plaintiffs' lyrical phrase ... "Indeed, the combination had not been used in popular culture prior to Plaintiffs' original use." The case was originally set for trial next month.

Fans who weren't able to buy tickets during the Ticketmaster mess will now get a second chance at the end of the month.

They said in a [statement](https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=761FFC1F-E897-41E0-88AE-D6431E619751) that Ticketmaster's lack of competition became "painfully obvious" after Ticketmaster failed fans trying to buy the concert tickets. While it’s impossible for everyone to get tickets to these shows, we know we can do more to improve the experience and that’s what we’re focused on." "You were selected for this opportunity because you have been identified as a fan who received a boost during the Verified Fan presale but did not purchase tickets. "I’m not going to make excuses for anyone because we asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could. After about an hour and a half of adding tickets to her cart but then seeing them disappear, Perry gave up. The Eras Tour," the email from Ticketmaster reads.

Ticketmaster said they made the decision to offer more tickets at the request of Taylor Swift's team. The company is sending email invitations to select ...

[The 52-date Eras Tour kicks off March 17 in Glendale, Arizona](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/taylor-swift-eras-tour-us-2023), and wraps up with five shows in Los Angeles ending Aug. ](https://business.ticketmaster.com/business-solutions/the-taylor-swift-on-sale-explained-2/)Two million tickets to The Eras Tour next year were sold during presales on Nov. But Ticketmaster said about 1.5 million fans who had gone through an early verification process — called Verified Fan — were invited to purchase tickets and the remaining 2 million were placed on a waiting list, according to the AP. Last month, Ticketmaster said that the site was overwhelmed both by real people and bot attacks resulting in unprecedented traffic on their site. "We want to apologize to Taylor and all of her fans - especially those who had a terrible experience trying to purchase tickets. 15, the most tickets ever sold on the platform in a single day, the Associated Press reported. This story was reported from Washington, D.C. Once this happens, fans will receive instructions on how to claim their tickets. [left many fans without tickets](https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-concert-tickets-parents-34399cca6403c97f0983a5c69c7edec0). Ticketmaster said the invitations will be "staggered by tour dates" in each city. The ticketing company [said in a statement on Nov. These fans will receive an invite to submit their ticket purchase request before Friday, December 23.

Taylor Swift reflected on directing "All Too Well" in an interview with Martin McDonagh for a new Variety interview.

Swift was on the cusp of 21 when she was in this relationship with an older partner. In it, Swift shines as a director, giving directives to the smallest things like hand placements and wording. It’s structured narratively in a way that I felt had to be different than any music video I’ve made,” Swift said. The pop star recently sat down with director Martin McDonagh for [Variety](https://variety.com/2022/film/features/taylor-swift-director-all-too-well-hearbreak-martin-mcdonagh-1235456137/) to discuss directing her [All Too Well: The Short Film](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-all-too-well-ten-minute-short-film-1257075/). “Emotionally, I was going through exactly what the short film depicts, and I think that time is such an incredible asset to use when we have these stories that are hard to tell,” she told the Banshees of Inisherin director. “I wanted to tell that story, too, about sort of girlhood calcifying into this bruised adulthood.”

From "Tim McGraw" to "Anti-Hero" with hits and Swiftie-loved cuts in between, vote for the one you like most on her birthday.

In the age of her re-recordings, Swift has given her fans even more music, including vault tracks such as “Mr. The superstar rang in her latest birthday on Tuesday (Dec. But it wouldn’t be a birthday-appropriate [poll](https://www.billboard.com/t/poll/) if we didn’t include “22” alongside the hopeful “Begin Again” and 1989 tracks such as “Blank Space,” “Style,” emotional closer “Clean” and bonus cut “New Romantics.”

Fans with a pre-sale code are going to get another crack at tickets for the June 16-17 shows at Acrisure Stadium.

We had 14 million people hit the site, including bots, which are not supposed to be there.” He also posted: “Emails will be sent to pre-sale registered fans for the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia shows in the coming days. 1 pre-sale, during which the Live Nation/Ticketmaster server was overwhelmed by hopeful fans.

Right around Taylor Swift's 33rd birthday, everything has changed — hopefully! — for some Pennsylvania Swifties. Following a messy presale, they'll get a ...

The “Verified Fan” presale required fans to register ahead of time to enter a lottery for presale codes, which offered the opportunity to purchase up to six seats, but were not a guarantee. Justice Department’s antitrust division before the Swift ticket debacle happened. Once the request window is closed, fans who’ve been selected will have their credit cards automatically charged. 15 was the first opportunity for fans to buy tickets. The AG office received over 2,600 complaints from frustrated fans, Rhoads said on Tuesday. The first attempt at snagging Eras Tour tickets in November created bad blood with Ticketmaster, which was responsible for selling seats at most of the shows. [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/PAAttorneyGen/status/1602695249452736515). [apology to fans](https://twitter.com/Ticketmaster/status/1593816908742000640) — create the additional opportunity, [according to the ticketing company](https://blog.ticketmaster.com/ticketmaster-verified-fan-request-taylor-swift-the-eras-tour-2023/). [Shapiro’s statement](https://twitter.com/PAAttorneyGen/status/1602695108020805638). — for some Pennsylvania Swifties. [said on Tuesday](https://twitter.com/PAAttorneyGen/status/1602695249452736515). Right around Taylor Swift’s 33rd birthday, everything has changed — hopefully!

Taylor Swift celebrated her 33rd birthday on Tuesday. 'Swifty Creek' middle joined the party with "Bake It Off" cake and "Bad Blood punch."

"(Swift) is so positive and a great role model for our students," said Hanna. "It's an opportunity for us to show the types of food that we serve in the cafeteria, hopefully get the kids coming through and eating a healthy, nutritious meal every day," said Christie Meresse, nutrition service director at Swift Creek. Students threw almost 250 pies at teachers and administrators and raised $1,500.

Taylor Swift gets to celebrate her 33rd birthday with a victory and the rerecording of her "1989" album now that her "Shake It Off" lawsuit has been ...

[GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE](https://foxbusiness.onelink.me/Zkcx?pid=AppArticleLink&af_dp=foxbusinesssaf%3A%2F%2F&af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxbusiness.com%2Fapps-products) This followed the revelation that producer Scooter Braun had bought the rights to the award-winning artist's records she made with her former label Big Machine Records when he acquired the company. It was confirmed in November 2020 that Swift could rerecord her first five albums — "Taylor Swift," "Fearless," "Speak Now," "Red" and "1989." Defendants respectfully submit that the ruling should be revisited." "Wouldn't have it any other way. A trial had been scheduled to begin in January.

Variety ranks Taylor Swift's best songs, with hits and deep tracks from albums like 'Speak Now,' '1989,' 'Folklore' and 'Midnights.'

When “Midnights” first came out, with none of the songs pre-issued to the public, if you weren’t paying attention to video premieres or that sort of splash, you might have taken “Anti Hero” as one of the odder songs on the album, not a sure out-of-the-box hit. It’s just universal enough to get that kind of usage in American customs and rituals, but you have to savor the bits that are pure Swift, whether it’s the guitar-string scars on her fingers or her custom-made vow: “Swear to be overdramatic and true.” Wait, is it her entire public she’s pretend-marrying, as well as this guy? It’s a wedding song for people who don’t intend, right away at least, to get married — there’s even a fakeout wedding scene in the middle of the song that ends with them vowing in front of God and onlookers to be, well, lovers — but anyone who wants to use it for actual nuptials probably gets a pass. So much of the “Fearless” album came to be about the bracingly candid breakup songs, or embracing the fairy tale, in “Love Story,” and rejecting it, in “White Horse” (and “Fifteen,” for that matter). This leads to one of the greatest lines in all of Swift-dom: “I swear, I’m only cryptic and Machiavellian ’cause I care.” Is she kidding with that lyric? You should not have these people as your friends.) So it was the beginning of a correction in the popular mindset when, for her third album, “Speak Now,” she made a point of writing a song for an ex-boyfriend in which she took credit for what went wrong and expressed apologies and regrets — normal human actions, in other words, for someone who was not the narcissistic teen wraith some of the culture had set out to make her. It’s good that Taylor doesn’t really believe that “forever is the sweetest con,” and good that she’s stretched out to the kind of writing where she can create a character to say it. With “Out of the Woods,” one of the most talked-about tracks from “1989,” it’s really enough to know what the emotional tenor of the scenario is, and not who she spent a night in the emergency room with. The telling way in the choruses that she keeps answering “good!” to every repetition of the “Are we in the clear yet?” question lets you know that this is a protagonist who constantly has to talk herself into believing that everything’s fine. Meanwhile, I suspect there’s a musical joke embedded in the title, which is written as a numeral, the way a musician would render it, versus “the one.” At the end of the chorus, the word “one” begins on the last note of one bar and slides over to the next, where it lands on… This is a kind of sequel, in spirit, to “Blank Space.” In that one, she was still playing at being the bad girl, for satire. A song about why a relationship that’s escalated for some of the wrong reasons can’t help but feel right when you throw that slinky a groove on it — and throw in something Swift has never employed from her arsenal before: a solo saxophone.

MIAMI - Millions of angered Taylor Swift fans didn't receive tickets to the artist's latest tour after a widely scrutinized debacle over bungled ticket ...

That unprecedented demand, combined with a "staggering number of bot attacks as well as fans who didn't have invite codes" drove "unprecedented traffic" to its site, Ticketmaster said, and, essentially, broke it. "You have been identified as a fan who received a boost during the Verified Fan presale but did not purchase tickets," the email said. Once the fan's request is confirmed, their card will be charged and they will receive instructions on how to claim the tickets.

Tuesday across the country and even in Leon County, they celebrated singer Taylor Swift's 33rd birthday.

On Tuesday, Taylor Swift shared a photo of herself and the Grammy-Award-winning producer Jack Antonoff hanging out together in a music studio on her 33rd ...

"Emotionally, I was going through exactly what the short film depicts, and I think that time is such an incredible asset to use when we have these stories that are hard to tell in the moment," she said. "I wanted to tell that story, too, about sort of girlhood calcifying into this bruised adulthood." "

Two songwriters have dropped their lawsuit claiming Grammy-winning musician Taylor Swift copied their lyrics in her 2014 number-one hit "Shake It Off,"

appeals court revived it in 2019. Monday’s court papers, filed jointly by attorneys for both Swift and the songwriters, did not say if there was a settlement. In “Shake It Off,” Swift sings: “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”

Taylor Swift revealed how she's spending her 33rd birthday in a new Instagram photo, teasing some more studio time with Jack Antonoff.

[birthday wishes](https://parade.com/1339927/marynliles/birthday-wishes-for-friend/) still poured in from her friends and fans in other ways. [Katie Couric](https://parade.com/news/katie-couric-hydrangea-flower-tiktok-hack-2022) shared a throwback video from an interview with the singer, writing, " [Happy birthday](https://parade.com/1035465/marynliles/birthday-quotes/) to the one and only [@taylorswift](https://www.instagram.com/taylorswift/?hl=en). [birthday](https://parade.com/1035465/marynliles/birthday-quotes/) today, Dec. Instead of a lavish party or tropical getaway, the [Midnights](https://parade.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-midnights-album) crooner has spent the day hard at work, once again teasing [more new music to come](https://parade.com/news/taylor-swift-reportedly-recording-new-music-2022) on Instagram. She held up three fingers on each hand to mark the occasion. she began the caption on the post shared earlier this evening.

All hope isn't lost for Taylor Swift fans trying to score tickets to the singer's Eras Tour. This week, Ticketmaster began announcing new opportunities for ...

[announcing](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/business/ticketmaster-verified-fan-taylor-swift-second-chance/index.html) new opportunities for fans across the country to buy tickets. [left millions unable to purchase tickets](https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/music/taylor-swift-eras-attorney-general-josh-shapiro-ticketmaster-complaints-20221121.html) to see Swift. “You have been identified as a fan who received a boost during the Verified Fan presale but did not purchase tickets,” the email from Ticketmaster says. “We know all too well this won’t solve every complaint,” Shapiro said. One local chocolatier even [raffled off a set of tickets](https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/music/taylor-swift-tickets-bar-32-chocolate-giveaway-20221201.html) in Wonka-esque form. Within days, his office said there were thousands of complaints.