base talk Shakira completely copies Taylor Merch

[Yellowfever]

59 minutes ago, alfonso12 said:

What's funnier is that those looks are labeled as iconic.  

Taylor looks are not iconic either if you’re not a fan, I couldn’t recognize most of them. And Shakira didn’t even include her HDL look, she chose whatever

[BODERLINE]

She could have at least used a different font  

[PoisonedIvy]

1 minute ago, Sergi91 said:

God forbid someone else wants to celebrate their eras even when Taylor wasn’t a thing 

Her team could have celebrated her eras in a trillion other unique ways than lifting the exact design Taylor’s team has been using?  

[suburbannature]

2 minutes ago, WeFoundTrouble said:

… No one. Literally no one. Is claiming Taylor invented “eras.” We’re not even claiming Taylor (her team) invented the art style used in these merch items. I can’t believe I have to explain this to you. What we ARE observing is that the EXACT design Taylor has been using for 6 years has been  copied by Shakira’s team for some reason. That’s it.  

You just said no one claims she invented it and then claimed Taylor invented the concept/design of a visual compendium that has quite literally existed in art since the 1950s

 

Please come back to reality. 

 

 

 

Edited September 11, 2023 by suburbannature

[vuelve88]

26 minutes ago, WeFoundTrouble said:

 

Overall I personally don’t think Shakira or Taylor should involve themselves in any litigation surrounding this, but I also don’t want labels just blatantly stealing the designs of other artists that were commissioned to do something for someone else  Idk what I expect to happen next 

I guess the good thing is that if there is an issue, it's just merchandise that can easily be pulled and a fee could be paid by Shakira's team. It's not like a songwriting credit, where the artist would get royalties forever. 

 

Shakira's designer and team members are definitely getting fired for this. I doubt Shakira spends much time thinking about merchandise or would even know the reference. 

[Badgalbriel]

5 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

Eras have existed forever and a limited sweatshirt from 2017 does not prove that Taylor came up with that idea. I can't believe Swifties have to have this explained to them. 

 

Google what a visual compendium is and how it has been used in art and pop culture for decades.

That's literally not the point. The point is that the merch is literally the same. Even the same font. Same spacing. It's not about the eras concept. It's about the merch design. 

[getBusy]

Honestly, both are serving Project Runway contestant that leaves on episode 1

[PoisonedIvy]

Just now, suburbannature said:

You just said no one claims she invented it and then claimed Taylor existed the concept of a visual compendium that has quite literally existed in art since the 1950s

 

Please come back to reality. 

Girl. Taylor did not invent the art style of the characters in her merchandise. You’re right they are a byproduct of visual compendiums. What Taylor’s team IS responsible for is the design wherein they have combined those visuals into a design headlined by the artist’s name above in a specific font. Maybe it’s not a particularly creative or unique or innovative design, but it is a specific design that someone created nonetheless, and Shakira’s team has lifted that design. No not the art style, no not the visual compendium, but the entire design as a whole. Can YOU come back to reality and quit misconstruing my words? 

[bliaz]

13 minutes ago, Breakthru said:

Last time she had a N*zi symbol as merch

What? 

[Kh-Loud]

I came in here to shade Taylor as per usual but Shakira deserves jail for that thievery!  

[suburbannature]

1 minute ago, WeFoundTrouble said:

Girl. Taylor did not invent the art style of the characters in her merchandise. You’re right they are a byproduct of visual compendiums. What Taylor’s team IS responsible for is the design wherein they have combined those visuals into a design headlined by the artist’s name above in a specific font. Maybe it’s not a particularly creative or unique or innovative design, but it is a specific design that someone created nonetheless, and Shakira’s team has lifted that design. No not the art style, no not the visual compendium, but the entire design as a whole. Can YOU come back to reality and quit misconstruing my words? 

Artists have been doing that with car make and model evolution artwork since the 1950s.

 

I had an exact replica/"merch" version as a kid in the 1990s.

 

 

Edited September 11, 2023 by suburbannature

[Yellowfever]

1 hour ago, Chemist said:

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This 

 

and Shakira has been using that font since 2014.

 

 

Edited September 11, 2023 by Yellowfever

[Badgalbriel]

Just now, suburbannature said:

Artists have been doing that with car make and model evolution artwork since the 1950s.

And still Shakira used even the same font that Taylor uses. 

[PoisonedIvy]

Just now, suburbannature said:

Artists have been doing that with car make and model evolution artwork since the 1950s.

And yet not a single one of these evolution artworks are exact replicas of one another because guess what — that is plagiarism. Again, the design itself may not be unique or innovative in your eyes, but at the end of the day plagiarism is plagiarism and Shakira’s team has plagiarized the exact design conditions that make up this merchandise Taylor has been putting out for years.

[Arrows]

15 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

Taylor featuring some of her old looks in a video is not the same as a compendium

 

That's like saying Beyonce invented eras with her 2000s Pepsi commercial

This exact sweater with this design has been a recurring product on Tay’s website since 2017. They were not talking about some video.

[PoisonedIvy]

3 minutes ago, Yellowfever said:

This 

 

and Shakira has been using that font since 2014.

 

 

Those are not the same fonts. The font in both Taylor and Shakira’s merchandise is the exact same, the font for the Self Titled Shakira album is different.

[Arrows]

13 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

You just said no one claims she invented it and then claimed Taylor invented the concept/design of a visual compendium that has quite literally existed in art since the 1950s

 

Please come back to reality. 

 

 

 

So you really don’t think anyone on team Shakira knew about the existence of Tay’s hoodie and got the idea from that? Cmon

 

Like I really don’t think there’s anything wrong with it at all, it’s just pretty obvious.

Edited September 11, 2023 by Arrows

[Yellowfever]

6 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

And still Shakira used even the same font that Taylor uses. 

Taylor copied the big snake on stage too, Shakira didn’t say anything. They’re even now 

 

 

[dumbsparce]

Maybe the company that makes tour merch has a variety of templates the girls can choose from and they just picked the same one.

Edited September 11, 2023 by dumbsparce

[The Music Industry]

1 hour ago, The Man Who said:

I’m genuinely baffled by some of these comments. I don’t think anybody is claiming that Taylor invented the eras concept, but that Shakira design is almost an exact replica. I don’t know how you can look at both of the photos I posted on the first page and not see it! lol 
 

It would be like somebody blatantly copying another artists song and then people defending it by saying “they didn’t invent guitars and drums” - no ****, Sherlock, but there’s a difference between inspiration and plagiarism. 

This  Idk why people here are acting so dense

[Bonicap]

Literally the worst thing you can copy from Taylor

[The Music Industry]

2 minutes ago, Yellowfever said:

Taylor copied the big snake on stage too, Shakira didn’t say anything. They’re even now 

 

 

? Both using a snake prop is not the same thing as literally copy/pasting the same merch concept down to a T

 

10 minutes ago, Yellowfever said:

This 

 

and Shakira has been using that font since 2014.

 

 

? That's not even the same font

Edited September 11, 2023 by The Music Industry

[Heldenzeit]

I love how not one of these iconic looks is iconic though. 

Edited September 11, 2023 by Heldenzeit

[Joyride]

they're both ugly

[The Music Industry]

25 minutes ago, Sergi91 said:

God forbid someone else wants to celebrate their eras even when Taylor wasn’t a thing 

Or you could use logic and realize the issue isn't the fact that people are doing merch celebrating their different eras (which is done all the time and no one cares), but rather the fact that Shakira straight up copied pixel for pixel the design/font of Taylor's merch  

 

Edited September 11, 2023 by The Music Industry