Killing Eve Season 3 Becomes Battleground In Taylor Swift Rights Feud

Killing Eve Season 3 Becomes Battleground In Taylor Swift Rights Feud

Killing Eve features a cover of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do,” credited to Jack Leopards & The Dolphin Club – but who really sings it?

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The latest episode of Killing Eve features a cover version of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do,” which is credited to a band called Jack Leopards & the Dolphin Club. However, fans quickly realized that this band doesn’t actually exist, and did some sleuthing to figure out who actually sang the cover. It appears that “Look What You Made Me Do” was sung by Swift’s younger brother, Austin Swift, in what fans have speculated is a strategic move in an ongoing battle regarding the rights to Swift’s earlier songs.

Killing Eve follows the twisted attraction between cheerfully psychopathic young assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) and MI6 agent Eve Polastri, who is charged with hunting her down. After Eve and Villanelle parted on bad terms in the Killing Eve season 2 finale (Villanelle shot Eve and left her for dead), the two have been mostly kept apart in season 3. Episode 7, “Beautiful Monster,” opens with an intense meeting between Villanelle and Helene (Camille Cotton), a representative for The Twelve, which is followed by the “Look What You Made Me Do” cover over the episode’s opening credits.

Swift took to Twitter to compliment Jack Leopards & the Dolphin Club for the cover, but it didn’t take fans long to figure out that some pseudonyms were in play. Killing Eve’s “Look What You Made Me Do” cover is credited as being produced by Nils Sjöberg – which is Taylor Swift’s pseudonym. A gravestone with the name Nils Sjöberg on it can even be seen in the original music video for “Look What You Made Me Do.” Meanwhile, the artwork for the single isbased on a photo of Austin Swift as a child. In the original photo, Austin is wearing a T-shirt with “Dolphin Club” on it, which is presumably where the band name was borrowed from.

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Why all the mystery and deception? Aside from it fitting with the themes of Killing Eve, fans have speculated that Taylor Swift asked her brother to record the song and produced it under a pseudonym because of an ongoing legal feud regarding the rights to her music. The Big Machine Label Group, which produced Swift’s first six albums, was acquired in summer 2019 by music manager Scooter Braun and his company, Ithaca Holdings. Swift had recently switched to Universal Music Group’s imprint Republic Record, and one of the desirable new conditions of her contract was that she would retain ownership of all the master recordings of her songs from 2019’s Lover and onwards – unlike her previous albums, for which the master recordings were owned by Big Machine.

Swift spoke out in opposition to Braun’s acquisition of Big Machine, because that deal means that Ithaca Holdings now owns the master recordings of all her earlier songs – including “Look What You Made Me Do.” In a Twitter post in November 2019, Swift revealed that Braun and Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta would not allow her to perform her old songs on TV, because of a clause in her earlier contract that prevents her from re-recording masters from her first five albums until November 2020. The singer-songwriter has said that she plans to re-record hits from those albums as soon as she’s allowed, but since “Look What You Made Me Do” is from her sixth album, Reputation, it’s unclear when she’ll be able to re-record it.

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Apparently, though, there’s a loophole that allows Swift to re-record songs from Reputation – so long as someone else is singing, and they’re not produced under her own name. That’s where the Killing Eve cover of “Look What You Made Me Do” comes in. It’s a delightfully venomous track about revenge and rising up from the dead, which not only suits the show perfectly but also subtly undermines Braun and Borchetta. Villanelle might be a master assassin, but Taylor Swift is still the master of shade.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/killing-eve-taylor-swift-cover-song-rights-feud/

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