A New College Course Compares Taylor Swift to Shakespeare???

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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A new English course at the University of Texas at Austin will examine Taylor Swift's lyrics alongside the works of classic lit by authors like Shakespeare, Keats, and Frost. And parents will pay for this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bird Show.
0:01.0	What's trending now?
0:02.0	No!
0:03.0	Kristen Nas.
0:04.0	It's the Bird Show's Entertainment Boss.
0:06.0	Taylor Swift is facing a new copyright lawsuit that alleges she ripped off the book that
0:11.4	accompanied her 2019 album, Lever.
0:14.3	She copied this from a self-published book of poems under the same name.
0:18.6	So the author is Theresa LaDart and she published a book in 2010.
0:23.0	She's on the cover and it's a book of poems.
0:26.8	And she says that Taylor stole design and textual elements from this and that she is owed
0:33.0	an excess of $1 million in damages.
0:36.0	I have sent you both in your email, a picture of Theresa's cover and Taylor's cover of
0:42.6	their book, Lever.
0:44.6	Go ahead and open it and tell me your thoughts.
0:46.6	I'm very proud of both of you for not looking at it beforehand.
0:50.9	It's not even close.
0:51.9	What?
0:52.9	What the hell?
0:53.9	Not even remotely close.
0:54.9	She says because they both use pastel colors and they're both looking downward in their
0:59.5	photo.
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