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David Rosenthal: belief

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

“I think we all know what happens next. It's kind of funny to talk about the Kanye andTaylor moment on Acquired, but this actually becomes such a huge part of the business story of Taylor's career.”

— David Rosenthal

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

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…Some drunk rapper thought this was the big prize. I think we all know what happens next. It's kind of funny to talk about the Kanye andTaylor moment on Acquired, but this actually becomes such a huge part of the business story of Taylor's career. It's funny. It inspires so much of her next decade-plus. It's a seminal point in everything that she does from there, and everything that she does from there inspires a lot of change in the music business. This point, it's almost like that meme where you tip over a small little thing and then a huge impact happens years later like a little domino thing. Drunk Kanye getting up and I'm going to let you finish blah, blah, blah. That was a catalyst moment that would change the economics of the music industry.…

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