--- title: Taylor Swift's Music Is Back On TikTok, But With A Twist description: Taylor Swift fans have found a fun workaround after the singer's music, and that of others, was pulled from TikTok over a licensing row. canonical: https://time.com/6639982/taylor-swift-tiktok-music-pulled-umg-fans-covers/ author: Mallory Moench article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-02-03T20:20:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-19T07:39:13.481Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Taylor Swift Fans React After Her Music Is Pulled From TikTok og:description: Taylor Swift fans have found a fun workaround after the singer's music, and that of others, was pulled from TikTok. og:url: https://time.com/6639982/taylor-swift-tiktok-music-pulled-umg-fans-covers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06c5a26b61945181/698a4479b3fce33cb00cb418/GettyImages-1637208780.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour - Mexico City, Mexico og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Fans React After Her Music Is Pulled From TikTok twitter:description: Taylor Swift fans have found a fun workaround after the singer's music, and that of others, was pulled from TikTok. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06c5a26b61945181/698a4479b3fce33cb00cb418/GettyImages-1637208780.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taylor Swift Fans Find Unique Solution After Singer's Music Is Pulled From TikTok > Sponsored content. 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Feb 3, 2024 8:20 PM UTC Since 1927, TIME has chosen a Person of the Year, the editors’ assessment of the individual who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse. by [Mallory Moench](https://time.com/author/mallory-moench/) ## Mallory Moench Moench was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Feb 3, 2024 8:20 PM UTC Taylor Swift fans are finding a creative workaround after the pop star’s music was pulled from TikTok following a licensing disagreement between the social media platform and her record label. Swift’s music [was taken down](https://time.com/6590486/tiktok-music-umg-taylor-swift/), along with songs from other big-time musicians including Olivia Rodrigo, Drake, Rihanna and Ariana Grande, by Universal Music Group (UMG) after it did not reach a deal with the social media company to renew its licensing agreement. Songs disappeared from TikTok by Feb. 1\. Swifties posted videos on the platform reacting in shock or [lamenting the absence of her music](https://www.tiktok.com/@jessicastearsricochet/video/7330749171089067265?lang=en&q=taylor%20swift%20umg&t=1706979990687). Some joked Swift would have to redo her albums for a third time, as she’s already re-recording[ her catalog](https://time.com/5949979/why-taylor-swift-is-rerecording-old-albums/) with the tag “Taylor’s Version” to gain ownership of her early songs, with one proposing calling a third recording [“TikTok Version](https://www.tiktok.com/@destineemorehvibes/video/7331111944520355103?lang=en&q=taylor%20swift%20umg&t=1706979990687).” But others have taken to posting covers of Swift songs as a way of getting around her music being pulled. Some serious musicians took the opportunity to amplify their talents by posting their versions of Swift’s music and encouraging other social media users to utilize them in their videos. [Singer Euan Blackman](https://open.spotify.com/user/euan%5Fb) posted a cover of the 2020 song “betty” with the text “So all of Taylor Swift’s music is getting removed from TikTok, but it’s fine because you can use this sound instead.” Another [singer, Talia Sporkin](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0JWkHhvKMLxGd4lzjpNtfP), posted her version of the 2023 track “Sl\*t!” with the tagline “UMG removed your sound? Use this one instead,” and invited requests for Swift songs to cover via the comment section. Other influencers got on the trend by posting comical videos of their covers, including influencer Chris Olsen, who belted out Swift’s 2008 song “You Belong With Me” while playing air guitar with a vacuum cleaner. Another user posted a video dancing to a Swift song in a grocery store. While some independent artists on TikTok didn’t cover Swift’s songs, but used the social media attention and the absence of UMG’s big names to [promote their own original work.](https://www.tiktok.com/@alexblythmusic/video/7331051745621183746?lang=en&q=taylor%20swift%20umg&t=1706979990687) ## Transcript [00:02] She's been this for the light in the world this year. [00:05] She brought to so many people together like a community [00:14] to it's not even just hurt. [00:16] It just made me feel like I wasn't alone and I wasn't crazy [00:20] for feeling the way that it was feeling we grew up together. [00:22] We all went through the same things together the stadium [00:26] and it feels like you're with her one-on-one. [00:32] Friendship bracelets are a huge part of the areas for these [00:37] bracelets are so important exchanging special handmade friendship [00:41] bracelet all goes back to Taylor song. [00:43] You're on your own kid. [00:49] So my friends and I got tickets to the arrows toward we had about [00:55] two hundred bracelets made. [00:56] We just couldn't stop you really just had a good time doing [01:00] it. [01:04] You realize 200 very slick was way too many for us to all bring [01:07] in trade can actually came up with the idea to put them on at [01:11] Sea until then. [01:12] I went to bed. [01:13] I woke up the next morning and we had over three hundred [01:15] bracelets on order. [01:20] It's like five six seven. [01:22] I'm going to have to make sure you got done with so many we [01:34] weren't expecting to get much money a couple hundred dollars [01:37] at the most this morning. [01:38] I ran the numbers and we're at $19,000 [01:41] in sales The Heirs to his my Roman Empire, [01:45] I think about it all the time every day. [01:47] I hear a song. [01:48] That's a great price that song. [01:50] That's a good thing to put on a bracelet this business definitely [01:53] keep us in touch two of us over Massachusetts the other two live [01:56] in Connecticut. Now, we have to meet up and trade bracelets [01:59] drop off talking with every single day. [02:01] Keep making more songs Taylors. [02:14] I went to the reputation tour. [02:16] I was right next to a security guard. [02:18] So we struck up a conversation and he told me about the gig they [02:23] have a couple years later. [02:24] I found some free time. [02:26] So I picked up that job ultimately to try and work the Taylor [02:30] Swift concert with working on the floor kind of right along [02:39] the edge of her stage after night one. [02:42] I made little pieces of paper that asked the audience if they [02:46] could take photos of me with Taylor Swift in the background [02:49] and text it to me. [03:03] When she came right behind me, there were a ton of fans and I [03:06] had to look at the fans by saw all of their faces light up [03:10] when she gets near them and it was just a sight even if I [03:13] wasn't looking at her on that date. [03:41] I think the squeal is Mom. [03:46] They had me Neil up on the stage and I see Taylor Swift coming [03:50] to a nice Knights worth fixing Young Band to give that hat tube [03:56] during the song 22. [04:08] I was already working with Taylor's water up team and they approached [04:12] me to do the classical order for the video for 22. [04:21] The connection could she have with her fan in the moment? [04:25] You are so emotional for me to see it was so beautiful. [04:30] Baylor's name power so many women with her music and to me and [04:34] be part of the always. [04:36] I'm trying to empower women with my Craftsman and be together [04:39] is so beautiful to me. [04:54] I always loved you from the moment. [04:57] I want to propose I wanted to do it at Taylor Swift concert. [05:00] I just never thought I would you do I water the logistics [05:05] of that. How long wait at the once-in-a-lifetime [05:08] set the thing I was like, okay, [05:09] I've got to figure out how is it going with the ring one? [05:14] I need to see where exactly in the lyrics I have to kneel down [05:17] to Nelly. All I could think of is what is the line? [05:21] I need to go down one. [05:38] Two to three weeks before the actual date of the score. [05:41] Yeah. I never told him I would play the song whenever I would [05:46] go to work and whenever I would come back just to make sure [05:49] it's okay. This is the part that I have to mail them. [06:11] You got so many different angles of the proposal and I have [06:14] some of those saved as like Swifty section 326 never seen so much [06:20] brightness and glitter up around all at once, [06:23] but I've never been a part of such a supportive Community [06:28] like that. [06:31] I just knew that when I proposed to Nick I needed a letter [06:35] to be a part of it because she's been such momenta simpactful [06:40] person predict his whole life and as much as I love her too, [06:45] it just felt like this is something I don't want Nick to remember [06:48] forever. I want everything. [06:49] He loves to be a part of the experience from [06:56] She's been there on the hardest days of my life and she's been [07:02] there for the best day of my life. 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