Impressed that Taylor donated so much (but then wonder if she could afford more :fist:)

It's a bit of an empty gesture from Taylor. She's made money from marketing herself as God's gft to feminism yet she can't be bothered to make a statement? When her words are likely to have an effect on the situation?

She's only throwing money at the situation since it makes it look like she's supporting Kesha without having to commit to it in words.

She earned $200,000,000 last year of course she could have

I'm still slightly confused by the whole case, esp reading this

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It's getting messy on twitter

https://twitter.com/TheDoctorLuke

Messy

I smell a hack though

Why is he doing all of this on Twitter

A huge mess

The little monsters :rolleyes:

Dr Puke needs to stop acting innocent, you can tell looking back how ill she was that's enough proof of his abuse

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Pressed Kesha would outsell Gags?

Keisha responds

https://twitter.com/keisha_buchanan/...06451682107393

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Keisha :love:

NOT icon Keisha :love:

Screaming :joker:

mess

This is so messy and uncomfortable.

No matter what Dr. Luke says though, it is harder to trust the word of someone with so much money and power. Of course he is going to deny, this can very likely ruin his career. It's possible these accusations were exaggerated and egged on by the influence of Kesha's mother and lawyer, but signs point to the fact that they were not baseless. The fact that many artists who have directly worked with Dr. Luke are standing by Kesha speaks volumes.

At the same time, it would be unfair to see his career ruined if these allegations truly are 100% fabricated. I don't know, I don't think any of us have the right to really judge without knowing what really happened. But regardless, Kesha deserves the support.

I don't see why she should have to comment - as sad as it is for Kesha, Dr Luke has not been convicted of anything and for anyone not directly involved in the situation, you have to hedge your bets - maybe she's making it up, maybe she's not, but the chances are Sony are going to come out of this unharmed because they're a gigantic business and Kesha and Dr Luke are just two employees. Taylor's not going to wade into a situation she knows nothing about, not when it might affect her music career too. Sending her a quarter of a million is far more practical and useful to Kesha than an empty show of support that won't actually DO anything...

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Serve that statement queen

Goddess <3

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Legends support legends :clap1:

Adole :love:

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A protest outside of sony music today :clap1:

Happy Birthday Kesh :love:

...how confusing, I thought I had clicked on the beans v hoops thread and looking at Jordan's post of Sony supporting rape...

A bit messy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...troying-family

If he is innocent and doesn't want his rep ruining he should stop being stubborn and just release her from the contract. Why would he still want to work with her if she lied about it?

I agree in principle but I can see Sony/his point as well that they shouldn't be forced to let someone out of a major contract because they've kicked up a fuss over unsubstantiated claims - I know that makes Sony look terrible for potentially excusing rape and abuse but nothing has been proven in court and that means that it's just as likely that Kesha's making it all up to get out of her contract; they claim that they've offered to let her work without him but she's not happy with that because he'll still profit from her work, she wants to have nothing to do with him... which is fair enough if you believe her, but if you don't then it means his only high profile consistent selling act has stopped working for the last few years and is determined to leave him and spitefully make sure he doesn't get any of the profits of her future work, thus taking away any kind of money spinning from him and probably killing his label in the process.

So even if he doesn't want to work with her either, they have contract law binding them together and it's more complicated than just mutually not wanting to work together again; she's the only major selling artist signed to his label, he's not going to give up on that without a fight and tbh her refusing to work until she's free of him IS her choice which, depending on your viewpoint, either makes her principled and worthy of support or is petulant and proves she's just trying to destroy his career... it's a really interesting case.

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We don't know what happened... It's silly to just believe her because you like her music. She's sworn under oath that he didn't do anything to her, and now she's saying he did. So either she lied while under oath or she's lying now. He doesn't seem like the most reputable person but that doesn't mean he should be judged as a rapist.
You shouldn't be able to get out of a contract just because you make life difficult for someone.
She isn't being 'forced' to work with him, so churn out those albums and then go your own ways.

Well... she can't 'churn out' 5 albums without working with Dr Luke atm

She can though, Sony have offered her that option, she's refusing because he'll still profit from her work because she's contracted to his sub-label. I agree with commblair, the easiest way forward for her would be to low-key churn out however many albums she has left on her contract and have a proper banger lined up ready to go with a new record deal with someone else.

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A victory for Kesh?

Nah I think this is just them washing their hands of the situation, so rather than it being Kesha vs Dr Luke and Sony it's just Kesha vs Dr Luke - she's still signed to his label so it's still a legal battle between them but if Sony are ending their working relationship with Luke then that's all the financial support taken away from his label so realistically unless he wants to plough all his own money into keeping his label afloat and keeping all these artists signed to it, it's going to collapse and all these contracts will likely become null and void. Kesha's deal was specifically with Luke but idk if any of his other artists are signed to Sony via his label so would be unaffected or if they have similar set ups to Kesha and are similarly ****ed.

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