Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-9-26 hour 2

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3:47 Speaker 3: That is Sophia Gilani and the brand new single of Vulnerability, and I believe we have Sophia on the align with us. Fia WhatsApp Sophia are you there?

3:56 Speaker 9: Hi?

3:57 Speaker 10: Hello, I'm here. Thank you so much for having.

3:58 Speaker 3: Me absolutely wellcome back to the show. The last time that we had you on, I think we were. I think you had just released wake Up. Does that make sense? Yep, yep.

4:09 Speaker 11: Yes, I've just released wake Up, my first album, my first single to my new album that's coming out really really exciting. Have I loved the response that's happened so far?

4:17 Speaker 3: Yeah, excellent, excellent. So I really like this track. Vulnerability. The first thing, well, two things I noticed about it right away as it's first of all, it's got kind of a to me anyway, it has kind of a summertime vibe, which I like because that's my favorite time of year. And as we move into spring here, I enjoy that that. I mean, that was that's what I hear in it. But also, but I think part of the reason I hear that is it's also very sort of and I noticed this with some of your other tracks too, it's very sort of stripped down.

4:46 Speaker 3: There's not a lot going on in terms of well, I shouldn't put it that way, but it's it's very you know, it's like you can clearly hear all the percussion and it's very sort of it's not overproduced in that sense,

5:00 Speaker 3: do you know what? You know what I'm trying to say, I think.

5:02 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I mean I wanted to keep it, you know, clear to the message simplistic.

5:07 Speaker 10: I want it to be just really a banger, if that makes sense.

5:11 Speaker 11: I want to listen to music. I want to make music that I want to listen to really, and you're right, I mean, it definitely is, even though it is quite a raw track. It is definitely one with a summer vibe. I love some of the most as well. I'm enjoying the sunshine right now during this interview, but I want it to be quite lighthearted, quite you know. That's why the beats, you know, upbeat, but with that like simplistic, down to earth message.

5:34 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Is that something that you try to go out of your way to do with a lot of because I feel like a lot of your work is like that. It's not it's not super overproduced as not, you know, so much going on where you almost kind of get distracted from the vocals or you know, like a lot of modern music is like that. But I feel like a lot of your I haven't listened everything necessarily, but I've listened to a lot of it and on your I'm looking at your SoundCloud right now, in fact, and I feel like a lot of it is like that.

6:00 Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, less is more, really, And I feel like I'm quite a perfectionist when it comes to music, so, you know, adding too much, I feel like it just complicates from what I'm trying to do in the first place. And you know, everyone kind of worries that, oh is it commercial? Is it relatable da DA But honestly, as long as it just sounds good to me, it doesn't need to be overproduced, doesn't need to have all these unnecessary effects, because I also want it to hit just as well in performances and live.

6:30 Speaker 3: Right, that's true, And it does make sense if it's not overproduced in the studio, then when you're trying to replicate that live, it's a little less a little less daunting in some ways. Right, It's almost it's almost less to worry about in that sense. I would think.

6:45 Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, you know, when when people come to my shows, I want them to you know, get what they get what they want essentially, and I want them to have this overduced song that has like ten thousand harmonies all over it, and then performance and it's like one vocal and it's a bit more slower. So, yeah, I wanted my music to be it's easy to listen to a bad thing.

7:08 Speaker 10: I'm not sure. I just I songwrite all of it myself. I'm very independent.

7:13 Speaker 11: I have foot in every single part of the process, and me and my producer we just don't like to, you know, try too hard on one track and then overthink it before it releases.

7:22 Speaker 3: Right right when you do You ever run into a situation where you're in the studio, you're recording, and something begins to sort of become too dense and you have to say, no, we're kind of going in the wrong direction with this, We're putting too much on it. We need to kind of strip this back a little bit.

7:40 Speaker 10: Yeah, definitely.

7:41 Speaker 11: I mean with the new album coming out, it's my first ever album, so we wanted to construct it in a way that was that reflected my musical journey. I've started quite young, and so looking at all the songs individually, we thought were great, but some of them, like some of them didn't sound coherent at first, Like towards the doing, some of them sounded maybe more some more overproduced than others, And we really did have to strip it back to what is the message that we want to convey with this album?

8:08 Speaker 11: Why do we want wake up to start it? You know, how have I progressed so far? How do I show that? How do I show you know, the Sophia Glani that I am today in comparison to who I was a few years ago with songs that were even more stripped back because I was.

8:22 Speaker 3: Just learning right, No, that makes sense. So the new album, when is the new album out?

8:28 Speaker 10: It's coming out at the end of May.

8:31 Speaker 11: We've had to push it back a few times, but that's just just because similar to what I just said before, actually we were just reevaluating and reassessing. But also it's going to be coming on vinyl, which is really really exciting, so we've been figuring out the distribution of that.

8:46 Speaker 3: Is is vinyl still very important over there? I know that in America, I think it was a few years ago, might have been twenty twenty three or twenty twenty four, it was the first time since the advent of CDs that actually outsold CDs. That's how the resurgence has been here. Is it like that where you.

9:05 Speaker 11: Are definitely, I mean more people my age are definitely wanting to have, you know, a product in their hands, have something meaningful to them because I feel like, you know, with streaming services, love it, but you know, sometimes it can feel like this weird numbers game where you want people to listen to.

9:21 Speaker 10: It so that you know, you feel seen.

9:24 Speaker 11: And I just kind of wanted my song to be in that my very first one anyway, to be in that product. So people have something from me, so it feels personal. And also I feel like not a lot of independent artists are taking that risk, taking that risk to make vinyl, put their blood, sweat and tiers and you know, distributing it and getting it made and all that, which in itself is a tricky process.

9:43 Speaker 10: But yeah, yeah, I want people to have that vinyl. And it's actually available for pre order right now my band Camp, which is really exciting.

9:51 Speaker 3: Oh excellent. I'm glad you mentioned band camp too, because band campus is such a great I'm a big advocate for band camp and I don't do yeah. Yeah, Well, the thing that I always say, and we might have even talked about this before, because I've talked about this with a number of guests, is how if you download, if you purchase and download music from band camp, you're actually getting a higher quality file than say, if you're just streaming it on YouTube or even Spotify. You really get the best possible product that you can as far as a download if you get it from band camp.

10:20 Speaker 3: So I'm a big advocate for that.

10:22 Speaker 11: Definitely me too, especially since I don't know, maybe this is just a personal opinion, but Spotify isn't really hitting it for me nowadays, I feel like, you know, there's so many there's so many like independent artists that I'm missing out on Spotify, And Spotify doesn't really benefit independent artists as much as say band camp does, where you know, you can actually help the artists, you get better quality, like you said, and it just feels like more of a contribution to the music industry where Spotify it feels like.

10:48 Speaker 10: You know, everyone's weirdly competing.

10:50 Speaker 11: You know, you have to splash out on adverts and campaigns and you know what I mean, It's just such a convolution process.

10:55 Speaker 10: So yeah, massive advocate of band camp as well.

10:57 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Now so is wake Up? Wake Up will be the first track that opens the album, I assume because the album is called wake Up as you said.

11:07 Speaker 11: It's actually called Reconceptualized, but wake Up is the first single on it yet.

11:11 Speaker 3: Oh okay, gotcha? Gotcha? And how many tracks are gonna be on the album? How many songs?

11:16 Speaker 10: Thirteen thirteen?

11:19 Speaker 3: Wow?

11:19 Speaker 10: We put a lot on it. We were like, you know what, we're just going to do this one album. There's not going to be like any DeLux. We're not messing around. It's one album, you know, just for you, you know, oh.

11:29 Speaker 3: Great, okay, okay. And then so will that include all of the singles that you've released up to now or are there some that won't be on the album?

11:40 Speaker 10: Yeah.

11:40 Speaker 11: I think there's around three or four that I've already released, but there's a lot of new stuff on there. I mean, my genre is pop, but I'd like to mix pop sometimes with what I'm listening to, whether it be R and B or drill or garage. So it's really a mix of old and new and you know, me trying some new things in my production, et cetera, et cetera.

11:58 Speaker 3: Right, excellent, excellent. And then have you been playing live? Have you been touring?

12:04 Speaker 11: Yes, We've been doing a lot of performances recently.

12:07 Speaker 10: Actually, literally two days.

12:09 Speaker 11: Ago, just played not in Hill Art's Club, which was really cool in London. It was sold out, really cool, and in on the thirty first of May. At the end of this month, we'll actually be going to Ireland to play in a festival at Waterford near Dublin, which is cool.

12:26 Speaker 3: Oh, very good, very good. I always say festivals are the best because not only oh yeah, well, not only does it get you in front of a huge audience, and it's a great way to build your fan base and rapidly, you know. Uh, but also to just the contacts that you make, you know, with other industry people at a festival. It's it's really invaluable and uh yeah, definitely can be very very helpful. And then will you be releasing uh, because I know you've got you've got some videos. Will you be releasing videos with the album for these songs?

12:59 Speaker 10: Yes?

12:59 Speaker 11: Well, we've got visuals for a song on the album called Don't Forget Yourself, which are in the process of being edited. And you know, even after the album's released, we've still got visuals that we're planning to work on, including because the album's called Reconceptualized, the song Reconceptualized is going to get its own visuals soon as well.

13:16 Speaker 3: Oh very cool.

13:18 Speaker 11: You know, love being creative in every single form of it, whether it be songwriting, singing, playing festivals and then being a director behind the scenes, you know what I mean, right right?

13:29 Speaker 3: Tell me about the title. I'm curious about the title Reconceptualized. Why why did you choose that?

13:34 Speaker 10: Yeah?

13:35 Speaker 11: So, I mean we've played around with a lot of titles, including like Pieces of Me, but the reason why Reconceptualize kind of stuck is because not only is it not a very frequently used word, but it kind of encapsulates what I was.

13:47 Speaker 10: Trying to do with my album.

13:49 Speaker 11: I started music at twelve, and since then I've been going through ups and downs, and really at this point, now I'm eighteen, I'm rethinking what it means to be feared on it, what it means to make music, because I definitely songwriter and articulate myself a lot better than I did back then. So my first album is called Reconceptualized because it's my starting point as to how I'm thinking, I'm what Sophia Glani is going to be, and then hopefully my albums in the future will be an answer to that in a way.

14:17 Speaker 3: Okay, okay, very good. It's great that you have a plan and that you you know, because a lot of people, you know, especially people who get started young, they you know, they're just kind of throwing everything against the wall and see what sticks. But you know, but you've clearly got a plan and you've got some good people around you too. You mentioned that the producer that you work with, Yes, his.

14:37 Speaker 10: Name is Doctor Kane's really really cool.

14:39 Speaker 11: Yeah, we've He's been there throughout this whole process, which is why this album is very very special to me. But I mean, like you said, I've got a plan just because I always I love making music.

14:50 Speaker 10: I'm always songwriting, I'm always recording.

14:52 Speaker 11: Even after this album will be released, I'm going to release more because I just love to do it, not because I want to keep releasing and hope that you know, someday something really really sticks and.

15:02 Speaker 10: I get really really big, you know what I mean.

15:03 Speaker 11: I just want to continue doing what I'm doing, and this album is a stepping points.

15:10 Speaker 3: Yeah. No, that's that's outstanding. Well, very good. Well we look forward to I was thinking about at the end of our conversation because you know, we played Vulnerability. I was seeing it at the end. I might play wake Up again. I really like that track. And then absolutely absolutely, and then you know, we'll have you back in the future obviously because you know, as you're going to be releasing more singles and you know it gives us an excuse to have you back on.

15:31 Speaker 10: But yes, absolutely, thank you so much for your support. I've loved having this conversation.

15:37 Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, Sophia. Where's the best place to go online? For people who want to keep up with everything that you're doing.

15:43 Speaker 11: I'd honestly say the three main which is Instagram at Sofia Dotnica, doc Glani, TikTok, which is just spha Glani, and my Spotify which is also Sophia Glani.

15:52 Speaker 10: But honestly, you'll find me anywhere.

15:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, your name is very very googleable. As I like to.

15:58 Speaker 10: Say, thank you, you're not you're.

16:01 Speaker 3: Not competing with a lot of other Sophia Gilani's, which is a good thing. Hit exactly exactly, well, very good. So we'll let you go and we're going to hit this track, wake Up. But Sophia Gilani, thank you very much and we'll talk to you again soon, I'm sure.

16:16 Speaker 10: Thank you so much. Enjoy wake Up, Thank.

16:18 Speaker 3: You, thank you. You got to take care bye bye.

16:22 Speaker 1: All right.

16:22 Speaker 3: That is Sophia Gilani and let's give this a spin. This is called wake Up. The album is reconceptualized and it will be out soon. Make sure you look for that and you'll be able to get it on vinyl, which is pretty cool. But here it is. This is wake Up by Sophia Gilani.

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18:48 Speaker 7: Other to say my face someway it'll be the taba bara.

19:14 Speaker 10: Good wake up, wake up.

19:21 Speaker 3: That is wake up from Sophia Gilani and of course you'll be able to hear that on her new album Coming Up, reconceptualized her first album, her first release so great to have her back on the show. Uh. And uh, she's got a lot of great music. Actually, if you look on SoundCloud, you can find uh, you can find a lot there. But band Camp, you know, we talked about band Camp. That's probably uh, well that is I'm sure the best resource for you know, like I was saying, you know, you get you get the best quality file available from band camp.

19:47 Speaker 3: So I really encourage that. H what we're going to do now, I want to play. So last week on the show, we opened the show with the world radio premiere of the new track from Chasing the Devil and I do happen. For those of you watching the show via video, whether it be YouTube or Facebook or wherever, you might notice, I'm wearing my Chasing the Devil's shirt. I love this song wired. So we're gonna give this another spin. This deserves another spin. This is such a great track. I love everything, literally everything that they've put out.

20:17 Speaker 3: And they're really good guys. And I've known Jay Bellow forever, and you know he always gives us the first crack at the at radio play with these songs. We always get to do the world radio premiere here with when it comes to Chasing the Devil. So I'm addicted to this song. I'm going to give this a spin, and so if you miss it last week, here it is. And if you heard it last week, you'd probably like to hear it again. And then after this we're probably gonna come back and do a little bit of music news.

20:41 Speaker 3: There is some music industry news that I find very interesting. And if you are listening live on Saturday, coming up in the third hour, we've got Viva Los Villain's great band who's going to be joining us again via WhatsApp all the way from across the Pond. As we say, so, there's still a lot of show to go, but here it is. This is wired to a single from Chasing the Devil.

21:14 Speaker 13: Keep Me Alive, about the neatingstone, reaching for something that's nothing, a hole.

21:23 Speaker 1: It's not so easy feeling.

21:26 Speaker 3: Sweet but long nowhere it's so lone.

21:31 Speaker 1: Deep in the ass, can't feel it.

21:34 Speaker 5: I'm gone stuff fatting form there.

21:38 Speaker 1: A long time.

21:38 Speaker 6: Ago this heartbeat would finding sweet, fun old thing.

21:47 Speaker 1: I can't deep you.

21:48 Speaker 6: Chime in the body so long, don't recognized the man become I said the town.

21:59 Speaker 1: Continue please ones jup should take.

22:03 Speaker 14: Before so down of food, no stream, crowd on the missile.

22:14 Speaker 5: Boor a streams out no sound.

22:17 Speaker 1: I'm protecting ball.

22:19 Speaker 5: You can't talk stream down if this all my phone? M?

22:25 Speaker 8: Why long stream no crowd, help missa boom a strange out no sound.

22:34 Speaker 1: I'm protecting ball.

22:36 Speaker 5: You can't talk stream now? Is this all my phone? M?

22:42 Speaker 6: Why throw me alive because of feeling so lost? Kick phoond me and body consu toes I do that.

22:54 Speaker 9: I'm not good for you. It's so up the filling my apost to do the out sound the south given enough Fiell saying the drums pick out enough.

23:09 Speaker 13: I know I'm so much btal sand.

23:19 Speaker 1: It's no stream, no crowd.

23:21 Speaker 5: I'm a missible a stream town.

23:24 Speaker 8: No sound. I'm protecting bos. You can't talk stream now. This is all my boat?

23:33 Speaker 5: Or about why.

23:36 Speaker 8: Not stream no crowds a stream time no sound.

23:43 Speaker 1: I'm protecting boat.

23:45 Speaker 5: You can't talk stream now. This this on my boat or my.

24:28 Speaker 3: Love those guys. The track is wired. The band is chasing the devil. And you heard it here first on the radio on Matt connorton Unleashed Live on WMNH ninety five point three FM. It is Saturday, May nine, twenty twenty six, and of course you can listen to us on ninety five point three FM in the Manchester, New Hampshire area, or you can stream the show from anywhere but to Matt connorton dot com, slash live or the new I keep forgetting I gotta mention the new website Matt connorton unleashed dot com click live.

24:57 Speaker 3: Of course, you can get the archives for the show. You can find our new blogs that were putting up all kinds of good stuff that we've got going on here on the show. Thank you again to Sofia Golani for joining us just a little bit ago. And in the first hour we had Johnny Collins from Modesty Blaze and coming up in the third hour for those of you listening live on Saturday, we have Viva Los Villains. Right now, though, there is some music industry news that we should take a look at. Always interesting things happening in the music industry.

25:24 Speaker 3: Somebody's always sueing somebody, there's always some sort of controversy, lots of lots of good stuff. This is from Digitalmusicnews dot com. This is one of my favorite resources for music industry news. Always some interesting articles here right on their homepage, and I've got a couple here, a couple things pulled up we can look at, and you know, they both relate to things that we've discussed on the show, obviously one of them being dynamic pricing. This article is titled and this just went up two days ago, dynamic pricing strikes again.

25:56 Speaker 3: Olivia Rodrigo's AMX Ticketmaster pre sale quickly devolve into a price spiked nightmare. Now, for those of you who don't know what dynamic pricing is, and we've been talking about it on the show for at least a couple of years now, it's something that ticket Master uses, it's something that other They've tried it in other industries, even fast food. I think Wendy's was trying to do this at one point but it kind of didn't work out. But dynamic pricing is where the price of something will fluctuate depending on demand for whatever it is, for whatever service item or in this case tickets.

26:27 Speaker 3: Ticketmaster has been using this so when demand is high for a certain show, then the ticket price will increase quite a bit. In some cases, if demand is low, the ticket price will automatically go down. So it makes sense in theory, but it causes a lot of problems. But gone are the days seemingly so, or at least with some shows where you know you know what the price is, the price of a ticket is announced and you say, okay, that's the price.

26:58 Speaker 10: Now.

26:59 Speaker 3: Of course, with ticketmaty there's also the problem of you go on to their site, you think a ticket costs a certain amount, and then by the time you get to check out, the ticket price is nearly doubled with all the fees and taxes and everything else it gets added on that they don't tell you about upfront, even though the Federal Trade Commission has told them you got to start displaying that all up front, not waiting till the end when they go to check out, and all of a sudden, the ticket price is twice what it was, or you know, close to twice forty percent higher, whatever it is, right, So, but dynamic pricing is where the price automatically fluctuates based on demand.

27:39 Speaker 3: And again some people really really hate this. But apparently this Olivia Rodrigo tour has already When we talked about this the first time on the show, I think it had to do with the Oasis tour. The Oasis reunion tour that was happening in the UK where they were using dynamic pricing, and it just it just caused all kinds of issues. We won't revisit that, we'll focus on this, but this is the newest kerfuffle, a word that I feel has not used nearly enough involving dynamic pricing. So again, this is from Music Business Worldwide.

28:13 Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm sorry, this is from Digital Musicnews dot com. Music Business Worldwide is a great side too, but this is from Digital Musicnews dot com. Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing strikes again, angering fans with exorbitant ticket prices that some said should be illegal for an arena show. Olivia Rodrigo, who by the way, was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live last weekend if you missed it, Olivia Rodrigo is embarking on the Unraveled Tour, a global trek with sixty five plus dates and support of her forthcoming third album, but fans are already disgruntled over the pre sale ticket prices.

28:49 Speaker 3: Unfortunately, it's a tale we've heard before. Yeah, the article even references this has become a problem that you know, we've certainly discussed many times on this show, it says here. On Tuesday, the pre sale for the Live Nation Promoted tour kicked off for American Express Card members. But when tickets first went on sale, fans quickly took to social media to vent their frustrations over sky high prices for an arena performance. Prices ranged from over two hundred to eight hundred dollars depending on location.

29:19 Speaker 3: Either way, not for nothing, but we live in a time where that actually doesn't sound I mean, you know, compared to what ticket prices were twenty years ago, that sounds very high. But I feel like tickets to any kind of arena show, whether it's music or you know, you see this. This is a big subject in professional wrestling right now. They talk about it on all these podcasts. We've talked about it on Tough Bumps, the wrestling podcasts that I do with Eric Pilcher and Austin Hicks. That's every Sunday night, by the way, usually well, I should say afternoon, usually around four pm Eastern.

29:58 Speaker 3: We go live find it online. That's strictly online, that's not associated with the radio station. But but uh, in fact, someone gave me some off air advice last night that maybe I should do more of that anyway, if you know, you know, but uh yeah, so so. But this is a problem with WWE events too, where people are getting you know, families, This is a big discussion going on right now. Families are getting priced out, you know, not being able to go to WWE events unless they happen to be wealthy because the cost has become so prohibitive.

30:36 Speaker 3: Okay, but to me, two day one hundred dollars, it almost that almost Maybe I've just become desensitized. Maybe a lot of us have that almost sounds normal. Now two day, eight hundred dollars. I look at that number and I think, yeah, I'm not that surprised, it says here again, going back to the article, many would be attendees admitted that they were willing to dish out more for Taylor Swift's airstore, which was a stadium level blowout affair, with each show lasting over three and a half hours. But as much as fans love Olivia, she's no tailor.

31:10 Speaker 3: One fan wrote on Twitter, quote, in no universe should any standard seated tickets be what is that pounds? You know this is I'm just going to convert it to dollars I don't know how else to do it. In no universe should any standard sea seated tickets be the three hundred dollars plus let alone in the in a twenty thousand capacity arena. I paid one hundred and fifty dollars for seats at Wembley's for the at Wembley for the airstore, a ninety k capacity stadium, for a three and a half hour show, and forgive me, I must take a gulf of water because my allergies are still terrible and I'm really feeling it in my throat.

31:56 Speaker 3: Bear with me. Does the mic pick up my swallowing the water? I'm curious, let's see. Another person wrote on Twitter, quote the prices for Olivia Rodrigo are actually making me sick. I would understand if it was one ten for standing in a stadium, but an arena. Another person wrote, what do you mean a back row of the two is being sold for one forty seven in some sections? Absolutely ridiculous pricing. Another person said literally watch ticket prices go up as I was in the queue as well, and another person wrote those Olivia Rodrigo ticket prices were disgusting.

32:39 Speaker 3: What business do you have charging Beyonce prices in the O two Arena. Oh my goodness, the article continues, but it's not just rodrig Or Rodrigo's shows that have drawn the ire of fans. Sabrina Carpenter, Zach Bryan, Ghost, Green Day, and Bruce Springsteen fans have all sung the same song complaining about Ticketmaster's infamous dynamic pricing. The idea behind okay, so this is I explained this before the article, but the article might explain it more succinctly. The idea behind dynamic pricing is that ticket prices increase based on demand, but many fans have pointed out that nothing in the industry will change as long as people continue to pay such prices.

33:20 Speaker 3: One Twitter user said, no wonder everyone thinks they can go do massive tours when people can sell out in seconds at five hundred dollars. Good point. Another said, y'all need to stop complaining and just mutually agree to refuse to pay these unreasonable ticket prices. Olivia Dean played the same venue as Noah Kan and Olivia Rodrigo, and it sold out shows at half the price. Indeed, the demand for Rodrigo's shows has been such that new dates have already been added in London. Initially, she was scheduled to play four shows at the O two Arena between April five and nine, but this has been doubled with shows on April twelve, fourteen, fifteen, and nineteen.

34:05 Speaker 3: Wow this demand all right, my god. Other news shows have been added in Amsterdam and Paris and and State side. Joining her on the tour will be grace ives and we don't need to get in all that. There's some details about the tour at the end, but the point is yes, dynamic pricing in fact strikes again and some people are very upset. Also, and Taylor Swift's name came up in that article. This is another thing happening from Digital Musicnews dot com. Now this I knew nothing about. This is new to me, but this just went up.

34:38 Speaker 3: Taylor Swift's legal team tears quote absurd trademark claims by former Vegas showgirl to shreds and threatens legal retaliation. I did not pre read this. I have no idea what we're getting into with this. I just saw this. It looked interesting, I guess as a Vegas showgirl causing some legal problems for Taylor Swift. I have no idea what this is? This is about? We will all learn together. Okay, here we go Taylor Swift's legal team and again, this is from Digital Music News dot com. Taylor Swift's legal team launches a counter attack against a former Vegas showgirl, accusing her of clout chasing with her trademark infringement claim.

35:17 Speaker 3: Taylor Swift's legal team has officially opposed an injunction request from former Vegas showgirl Maren Wade, who filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Swift earlier this year over the title of her twenty twenty five album The Life of a Showgirl. Okay, now again, I did not preread this. I don't I didn't know where this was all going. We're barely into this article and already I'm rolling my eyes. So Taylor Swift's album called The Life of a Showgirl. A former Las Vegas showgirl is suing Taylor Swift for trademark infringement.

36:03 Speaker 3: Okay, now, let's try to keep an open mind here. But this already sounds very, very frivolous. Let's see. The article continues. The attorneys labeled her lawsuit meritless and absurd and claimed it was an attempt to exploit Swift's fame for a marketing boost for her own brand. Okay, again, this sounds frivolous and, as Taylor Swift's attorneys said, meritless and absurd. Let's see where we end up. Maybe there's something in the article that can sway us. Marin Wade, whose legal name is Maren Flagg, filed her lawsuit in March in the United States District Court in California.

36:47 Speaker 3: She owns the trademark for Confessions of a show Girl, which she has owned since twenty fifteen and used since writing a column in Las Vegas Weekly in twenty four The brand has expanded into a podcast and a live cabaret show. Okay, so far, nothing here changes my opinion that this is a very frivolous lawsuit. It's not even the same thing. It's not even the same name. Swift's album The Life of a Showgirl, The Life of a Showgirl. Maren Wade's column is called Confessions of a Showgirl. Not the same thing.

37:25 Speaker 3: Life and Confessions not the same word. This is yeah, I mean, I think Taylor Swift's attorneys are right. This is this is a she is cloud chasing. This is clearly what she's doing. Okay. In her filing, Maren Flagg claimed that Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl infringed upon her trademark. So, by the way, okay, I don't mean to keep interrupting myself, but is the idea that anything with the word showgirl in it is infringement?

37:59 Speaker 15: Is that?

38:00 Speaker 3: Is that what Maren Flags whatever her name is, is that what her attorneys are contending. You just can't use the word showgirl on anything? What about the mo is? You know there's a movie Showgirl Is a Showgirl or Showgirls. I never saw it. It had the actress from Saved by the Bell. I never saw it. It looked horrible.

38:21 Speaker 3: Have they also been sued the producers of that film? I mean, come on, I mean I realized that movie was like what twenty years ago at least maybe more. But anyway, but again, it just speaks to the absurdity of this. Okay, so let me start this paragraph over. Sorry, I keep interrupting myself. In her filing, Flag claimed that Swift's The Life of a Showgirl infringed upon her trademark and created it just gets more absurd and created unfair competition for her own brand. Unfair competition for her own brand.

39:01 Speaker 3: So I mean, just think about that. So she's by the way, I would love to meet the lawyers who took this on on behalf of this woman. They should probably be dispartd How how is an album with the word showgirl in a competition for this woman writes a column. She writes a column for a Las Vegas newspaper called the Life of a Showgirl. I'm confused about where the competition is, Okay, it says here. The suit even cites that when Swift applied to register her trademark for the album, the US Patent and Trademark Office initially declined because it found it was too similar to Flag's existing trademark.

39:55 Speaker 3: That can't be true. That can't be true. Can that possibly be true? I don't believe that. I mean, it's in the court filing. So if I'm saying that can't be true, I guess I'm accusing her her almost Freudian slip. I almost at her liars, her lawyers, but I do mean liars. I'm accusing her her lawyers of lying in the filing because I just don't believe that. How can that possibly be true. All right, we go on. Flag asks for a preliminary injunction to immediately prevent Swift from further use of her showgirl brand.

40:40 Speaker 3: But Swift's team is known for being aggressively re litigious, and they wasted no time in clapping back with a filing of their own. I say good for them. They wrote, quote, this motion just like Marin Flagg's lawsuit, should never have been filed. It is simply miss Flag's attempt to use Taylor Swift's name and intellectual property to prop up her brand. Unquote, that's exactly what she's doing. According to their opposition, Swift's lawyers say that Flag actually used Swift's music and lyrics to promote her Confessions of a Showgirl stage show.

41:17 Speaker 3: They further threatened to pursue remedies for the commercial misuse of Swift's intellectual property. Oh yeah, that's uh. I think Maren Flagg really may have I mean, this is, you know, not only going to backfire. I mean, this is clearly this is backfiring. This is going to cause her more problems. And again, who are her attorneys? They they're clearly they have no idea what they're doing. Clearly, the filing also asserts that there is quote no chance of consumer confusion between the two brands.

41:56 Speaker 3: My point a few minutes ago, citing the legendary attention to detail of Swift's devoted fans and noting the vast difference between a small, intimate cabaret act and Swift's global stadium performances, that comparison is absurd. Her lawyers wrote, that's got a sting, that's got a sting. A little yeah, your stupid little cabaret show not quite the same as a Taylor Swift global stadium tour. So we think that people are gonna know the difference, just saying. The article continues, Swift's team also asks the judge to consider why Flag is asking for immediate relief on the basis of irreparable damage to her brand a whole eight months after the album was first announced.

42:48 Speaker 3: They argue that Flag in fact spent several of those months attempting to associate herself more closely with Swift's Showgirl branding in her own Ah says here again, this is the filing that Taylor Swift lawyer's did. The countersuit. There's a lot here. This is what's in there. Filing, some of it, not the whole filing. Obviously, since the album announcement, Plaintiff has reframed her brand around the album, flooding her social media accounts with posts attempting to align herself with Miss Swift and the album.

43:32 Speaker 3: Prior to the album announcement, Plaintiff had never used the life of a showgirl in her social media promotion. Following the announcement, Plaintiff used the phrase or posted generally about Miss Swift or the album over forty times on her branded Instagram and TikTok accounts. In fact, a mere four days after Miss Swift announced her album title into Artwork, in August twenty twenty five, Miss Flag announced a brand new podcast mimicking Miss Swift's album artwork, logo, title, and taglines, then playing to flooded her Instagram and TikTok pages with forty plus advertisements for her brand using Miss Swift's music, trademarks and other intellectual property without permission unquote hmm busted each of these, The brief claims constitutes actionable infringement and that thas rights management quote will be pursuing appropriate remedies for that unquote.

44:39 Speaker 3: So this woman, this idiot. Frankly, Maren Flagg, you know, in attempting to clout Chase ended up just causing a whole lot of problems for herself. One other quick story and then we've got we've got this week's world radio premiere, and of course we'll show some love to our amazing sponsor. And then coming up an hour number three today we have Viva los Villains, Loser loss, Viva los Villains. Although when people say Los Lobos, they always say loos. They don't say loss. But when we say Los Angeles, we say loss.

45:14 Speaker 3: We don't say los. I guess you can say either way. This is something I hate to see this again. This is also from Digital Music News. Eric Clapton ends Madrid show early after being struck by object from the crowd. I don't know why people do this, but this and look, Eric Clapton, there's some things about the guy that bother me quite frankly, but this should not ever happen, it says here. Eric Clapton didn't give fans in Madrid his usual encore after he was hit in the chest with an object from the crowd and left the stage afterward.

45:47 Speaker 3: Eric Clapton usually returns to the stage for an encore after playing his classic hit Cocaine, but that was not the case at his Madrid concert on May seven. Footage posted on social media shows that Clapton seemed to be hit in the chest with what appeared to be a vinyl record tossed from the crowd. As a result, he didn't come back out for an encore after finishing the song a vinyl record, So with somebody did somebody think if they threw the record at Clapton he would autograph it for them. That's the only logical thing I can think of why that would happen.

46:16 Speaker 3: Why else would that happen. It doesn't make sense. It's bizarre, and obviously it's not the right thing to do. And obviously whoever threw that record, if that was what their intention was, they did not get their autograph. Probably somebody drunk or on something. But it says here the moment happened just after he performed Cocaine, which is usually the point at which Clapton leaves the stage and then returns to play an encore, but after the incident he did not return to the stage. Reports suggests that the fan who threw the vinyl did not intend to cause any harm right, that probably my theory.

46:52 Speaker 3: Nor did it appear to cause injury to Clapton when the item made contact, and the record was even accompanied by a note of affection. However, even with the best of intentions, throwing an item on stage doesn't always have the desired effect, and that was certainly the case here. The former Cream guitarist reportedly became angry after the incident and chose not to return to the stage. The Stars he had to address the incident, but unfortunately, he's far from the first musician to be hit by an object thrown from the crowd.

47:18 Speaker 3: Hey, I was at a disturbed show once. This would have been oh my god. This was probably more than twenty years ago, where for some reason, it was at an outdoor show. It was at a festival, and for some reason people were throwing stuff in the crowd. I have no idea why. I mean, people throw things at Dave Draymond now for different reasons, but people were throwing stuff in this crowd. From this crowd, we're throwing stuff And Dave Draymond said, look, you know, that's not a compliment to us. He keep doing that, We're leaving.

47:47 Speaker 3: And it did stop but it says here. A surge of concert incidents between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four saw a numerous artist hit by objects thrown from the audience, including Kelsey Ballerini and Harry Styles. Baby A Rexa required stitches after a fan through a self oh I remember this through a cell phone directly at her face while she was performing in New York, and Ava Max had a fan slap her in the face after rushing the stage in Los Angeles. Other artists who have had items thrown at them during performances in the last few years include Drake Pink and Steve Lacy.

48:20 Speaker 3: The eighty one year old Clapton and by the way, that is relevant his age. He's eighty one years old, so you know, if you throw something like a vinyl record, you know which is not it's not the same as you know, throwing a glass bottle or something. But still, I mean, at eighty one years old, a stiff wind might blow this guy over. You can't just be doing that. I mean, that's stating the obvious, be laboring the point, I suppose. But the eighty one year old Clapton is currently on his European tour which is set to resume in Barcelona on May tenth, before he makes his way to Germany for shows in Mannheim.

48:56 Speaker 3: Okay, it just goes on about a tour. Don't care about that part. That's the last paragraph anyway. But you know, if you throw things at someone while they're on stage, just be aware that you are a bad person and we all hate you for doing that, and please don't do that ever. All Right, we've got another world radio premiere. We did this at the top of the show today, but we're gonna do it again in the second hour if you missed it. We've got the brand new single from Nashville artist Dylan Jones, and he's going to be on with us.

49:30 Speaker 3: I'm trying trying to remember the date. Actually, let me look here. I've got this open. Dylan Jones is going to be on the show with us on

49:41 Speaker 3: stall Lean for time. Well, I look up the date that he is going to be on the show, so I make a little song about it. He's going to be on with us on August eighth. August eighth, Dylan Jones will be joining us on the show. He'll be probably via Microsoft Teams or WhatsApp from Nashville. But he's got a brand new single, and you heard it here first. This has not been played anywhere else on terrestrial radio, and we're gonna play it right now from Dylan Jones. This is called sound like Mine.

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