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Taylor Swift: Everything We Learn From Her About The True Essence Of A Healthy Friendship – And The Complexities Of Mixing Friendship With Business

Taylor Swift just hit a major milestone in her career: she bought back all her first 6 albums back from Shamrock Holdings for $360 million. Swift was initially signed with Big Machine in her career beginnings. Scott Borchetta signed Taylor Swift to Big Machine Records, which he founded, in 2005, launching her career. In 2019, Borchetta sold Big Machine to Scooter Braun for $300 million, which included the rights to Swift’s master recordings of her first six albums. Braun then sold the masters to Shamrock Holdings for $360 million, the amount Swift bought the masters for just recently from the company. Following Swift’s purchase, Braun’s simple reaction was, ‘I am happy for her,’ according to Page Six. Following Braun’s purchase of her life’s work since she was a teenager, Swift made a statement. It said, ‘For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past.’ And not only that, but Swift also revealed that she learned of the purchase the same way as everyone else did – online. Here, we breakdown the entire ordeal of Swift’s journey to get her masters back from beginning to end. We explore everything that her friendships had to do with it. And we explore the complexities that come with mixing business with friendships. Let’s discuss…

Blake Lively: The Woman That Took Taylor Swift’s ‘The Man’ A Little Too Seriously – And What Her Legal Battle Against Justin Baldoni Means For The #MeToo Movement

We ended 2024 with a BANG, and started 2025 just the same when Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni launched dueling lawsuits against each other, with Lively alleging that Baldoni and key stakeholders of the film sexually harassed her during filming of ‘It Ends With Us’, and attempted, along with Baldoni’s production company and crisis PR company, The Agency Group PR, to orchestrate a smear campaign against her. In the latest Blake-Lively-and-Justin-Baldoni-related news, Scarlett Johansson opened up to Vanity Fair about her feature film directorial debut, Eleanor The Great, which is backed by Wayfarer Studios, founded by Justin Baldoni. When Baldoni’s name was brought up in the interview, Johansson said, with a laugh, that the Wayfarer team was supportive all throughout the process of making the film. She also called it a ‘weird timing’, in reference to the movie being released in the midst of Baldoni’s legal battle against Lively, or is it the other way around – Lively’s legal battle against Baldoni? It all really depends on how you view the situation from the outside looking in. If you didn’t already know, Johansson was previously married to Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, between 2008 and 2011. She’s now married to Colin Jost. But no matter how you look at it, things are getting uglier in the legal battle between the two. Here we break down the entire 5 months since Blake Lively filed her lawsuit against Baldoni. We explore how Lively became ‘The Man’ in Taylor Swift’s song and took the role literally, as well as what Taylor Swift’s exact role in the legal battle is. And we explain what the lawsuit means for the #MeToo social media movement. Let’s discuss…

Ingrid Santa Rita: Getting To Understand The History And The Legality Of Marital Rape Through Her Journey On ‘Love Is Blind Brazil’ – And What We Can Do To Help Protect Women Going Forward

Ingrid Santa Rita was a contestant looking for love on season 4 of ‘Love Is Blind Brazil’ after she’d endured much turmoil in her life from a very young age, having given birth to her first daughter at age 13. She thought she found it in Leandro. The two got married at the end of their run, and we all thought she found her ‘happily-ever-after’. At the reunion, we found out that it wasn’t all rainbows and sunshine for the couple, and that the two ended up divorcing. But not only did they divorce, there was marital rape involved too, with Leandro sexually assaulting Ingrid several times throughout the marriage, and even going as far as raping her in her sleep. Here, we break down the entire history of marital rape and how it came to be a legal matter in the 1990’s. We explain marital rape through the eyes and perspective of Colleen Hoover and her ‘It Ends With Us’ character, Lily Bloom. We explore how ‘Love Is Blind Brazil failed Ingrid and fellow domestic violence survivors. And finally, we empathize what companies can do to protect women working for them from violence in the workplace to make sure that no woman ever has to go through what Ingrid Santa Rita had to go through during her time of employment at ‘Love Is Blind Brazil’. Let’s discuss…