the thing i think a lot of people don't understand about taylor swift's wealth is that she doesn't actually have access to nearly $2b or whatever like a striking amount of her wealth is her music catalogue. you know, the music catalogue she's literally spent actually years fighting to own because they're her words and intellectual property. in order to actually have $2b she would have to sell her masters - again, the thing she has been fighting for years to own. if suddenly everyone stopped listening to her music, if there was no desire to listen to her, if no one else thought it would be lucrative to try to buy and own her masters, her wealth would decrease immensely.
obviously she's still a very wealthy woman without her masters. she did have to have the money to purchase them in the first place. she does come from a place of wild privilege but she also does consistently give to food banks and other charities; she just does it very quietly and doesn't make a huge pr deal out of it. most of the donations she gives, people only find out when the charity themselves chooses to disclose that information, because she isn't trying to make herself look good. she just knows it's the right thing to do. but because she doesn't provide random people on the internet with a list constantly, they will decide she's elon musk levels of evil and that anyone who likes her is on the same level of elon bros or whatever.
my point is, to have the wealth people seem to equate her with she'd have to sell off her life's work, a thing she's fought for years to earn - a thing she's also spent a lot of time trying to speak to younger artists about not letting record companies and sleazy labels trick them into. idk i know im a biased swiftie but it really does just make me think a lot.
taylor swift does not need me to defend her. she's got money and time and lawyers, but i do reserve the right to defend myself from people who treat me like a Bad Person because of a musical artist i enjoy, a person whose career i have literally been following for decades. i'm not stupid. i'm not naive. i'm just, you know, informed and knowledgable about a thing that has been pretty impactful in my life.
