Just like Eras Tour tickets, the rights to one of Taylor Swift’s songs don’t come cheap.
Comedian Marc Maron has revealed the whopping price tag that came with using less than a minute of one of Swift’s songs in his upcoming comedy special.
In Marc Maron: Panicked, the song Bigger Than The Whole Sky plays a huge role in the ending the special, so the comedian said he was prepared to pay.
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Appearing on Vulture’s Good One podcast, Maron revealed it cost him around $US50,000 (approximately $77,000) to use a snippet of the song.
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”The real fear is she don’t let you use it,” he added.
“But that’s why I wa,s like, ‘I think she’ll like the bit… because they could always say, ‘I don’t want him to play that’.
“And then if you do, they sue you. But, they signed off on it.”
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Maron added that he has ”no idea” if Swift has seen the joke, but he said he did “everything [he] could to get the joke in front of her”.
“I know Jack Antonoff enough to text him and he’s the co-writer on that song,” Maron explained.
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“I said, ‘I don’t know what what what’s proper or how to do this, but you know, we’re running out of money on this thing. It’s probably going to come out of my pocket. Is there anything you can do about this song or talk to Taylor or whatever’?”
Antonoff, who is a close friend and collaborator of Swift, apparently suggested to Maron that he “go through the proper channels first” and then let him know “what happens with that”.
”I never heard back from him,” the comedian added.
“It was doable. We we made enough money. It was tight, but you know, because of the ticket sales for the special, we were able to to to to get that song.
“I think the the other thing was it’s up to a minute … if I would have gone over the minute, it would have been more money.”
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