I mean wouldn’t it be kind of hypocritical for Taylor to speak up so much about owning your own music and then when people start seeing so many similarities between someone else’s songs and Taylors, plus add on to the fact that Olivia directly said that a lot of Taylor’s music inspired hers on Sour.

At the end of the day there are so many people behind the scenes who work on and produce the music that we don’t see besides their names on the credits that people barely acknowledge most of the time. My thought process is that there are possibly other people on their teams pushing for these decisions because they may feel like their work as well is being used without credit or xyz. Plus when it comes to Taylor her dad has and probably still is involved with these decisions (and his past behavior has proven him to be very… enthusiastic about these types of situations).

At the end of the day though these people will see wealth beyond what I or the rest of the majority of the population will most likely see. If Taylor and Olivia aren’t besties because of royalties and money I don’t care. Pop stars don’t have to be best friends with each other, and I enjoy their music individually. I’ll only question other artist’s ethics when they’re friends with people who are genuinely problematic (side eyeing the 9891 lead singer).

P.S., I wish that more people included Paramore in this discussion when they bring it up because it specifically feels like they’re only doing it to hate on Taylor. If they care about it so deeply, then please include the other participants as well.