<i>(not a tay tay fan. not actually listening to much music these days, I can't quite get Bach and Beefheart out of my head)</i><p>Normally I'm a "the contract sets the limits" person but in artist's rights, an given the extent to which artists are both young, and exploited, and wind up in legally dubious relationships which then magify out and up, I think the intent should be "what's the right thing here, no matter what the contract says"<p>And I think unless she received heinous amounts of fuck you money, and sold her rights for their current worth, unless she did that, if this is just normal A&R nickel-and-diming, then they should be told to go away, and she should get to perform her songs.<p><i>"you can't perform your songs"</i> is a very sad place to wind up. it does nobody any good.<p>She very possibly did receive heinous amounts of A&R support but I would also believe a lot of leeching has been going on. The industry is a giant machine to suck revenue out of art and put it into tax efficient structures for other people.<p>They learned from masters: the movie industry. Who did those masters learn from? The Sheet music industry.<p>Pop will eat itself.