Comedian Reveals Cost Of Using 1 Taylor Swift Song In His Act, And It's No Joke
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"I did everything I could to get the joke in front of her," Marc Maron said of Swift.
Comedian Marc Maron said the cost to use a Taylor Swift song in his standup special was “doable” within limits.
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Maron said on Vulture’s recent “Good One” podcast that the sum he paid was for “up to a minute” of her 2022 song “Bigger Than The Whole Sky.”
“I think it came out to $50K, around that. ... I did everything I could to get the joke in front of her,” he said.
Maron made the deal with Swift’s intermediaries after the song’s co-producer, Jack Antonoff, encouraged him to try “proper” channels to reach the pop star before he’d help. But he “never heard back from him,” Maron said.
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