Headlines stating American country singer Jason Aldean rejected a $500 million offer to collaborate with pop superstar Taylor Swift originate from a satirical article, although social media posts are sharing it without that context.
“Jason Aldean Rejects $500 Million Music Collaboration With Taylor Swift, ‘Her Music Is Woke, No Thanks’,” and “Jason Aldean Turns Down $500 Million Music Collab With Taylor Swift, ‘Her Music Is Bubblegum Crap’,” read captions posted on social media, opens new tab with images of the two performers.
Some users responded with comments such as, “Why I just love Jason Aldean! He doesn’t hold back and speaks the truth. I myself am not a Taylor Swift fan,” and “Good! She’s too good to perform with JA.”The headline “Jason Aldean Rejects $500 Million Music Collaboration With Taylor Swift, ‘Her Music Is Woke, No Thanks’” originally appeared in an April 1 article, opens new tab tagged as satire and published by the website Essposts, whose “About Us” page, opens new tab states that it a subsidiary of SpaceXMania.com and that it specializes in satire and parody news.
Satire page SpaceX Fanclub posted an image on Facebook, opens new tab on April 14 which featured the headline “Jason Aldean Turns Down $500 Million Music Collab With Taylor Swift, ‘Her Music Is Bubblegum Crap’.”Representatives for Aldean did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Reuters has previously addressed headlines that originated from Esspots.