Taylor Swift Threatens Lawsuit Over Fake Topless Photo

Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift has threatened a lawsuit against a website called Celebrity Jihad for posting "false pornographic images and false 'news' about her." The supposedly satirical site published a photograph of a topless young woman who resembled the country-pop star along with the headline "Taylor Swift Topless Private Pic Leaked?" in August.

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Swift's team had requested that Celebrity Jihad remove the image, but it's still live on the site. In a post today, the site promised to remove the photograph if Swift "agrees to convert to Islam" and "sacrifice a goat and devour its entrails." Swift has not commented on the issue, but presumably will not be devouring goat entrails any time soon.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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