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David Rosenthal: belief

23 Jan 2022 Acquired Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

“Where did Kelly come up with this idea? It turns out that aside from being a great country artist herself, her mother-in-law at the time—I think she'd since gotten divorced—was Reba McEntire.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
23 Jan 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…Lots of people are listening to Taylor Swift. That's definitely happening. On July 13th, singer Kelly Clarkson tweets, "@taylorswift13 just a thought, U should go in & re-record all the songs that U don't own the masters on exactly how U did them but put brand new art & some kind of incentive so fans will no longer buy the old versions. I'd buy all the new versions just to prove a point." This tweet exists. We'll link to it, it's out there. Now here's what's really interesting. Where did Kelly come up with this idea? It turns out that aside from being a great country artist herself, her mother-in-law at the time—I think she'd since gotten divorced—was Reba McEntire. Reba did this. No way.…

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