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Post by Love Plastic Love on Jul 28, 2021 11:39:28 GMT -5
So even with a prenup and primary custody of kids he's still going to get 200K a month. I guess that is the price you pay to get rid of dead weight. Still frustrating that she will fund his "I wanna be a cowboy" moment.
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Post by slowmo on Jul 28, 2021 12:26:36 GMT -5
I've been trying to stay level-headed on this whole thing but I have to vent for a moment. What bothers me the most about all of this isn't that he's getting paid, that was to be expected when one party earns more than the other and I would say the same thing if the people were reversed. When there's a lot of money involved, numbers tend to be bigger than normal, but he isn't some homemaker or minimum wage earner, he had a very nice job that he deliberately quit to be a rancher. What bothers me the most is that he quit his life, and that includes quitting on his young kids, that was supposedly agreed on with his wife which he had pushed for her to do, to go do all of this. I don't doubt that this has been a passion of his since he was a teenager, but you don't just quit like this after upending the life of everyone else just years earlier. Then he gets to keep the 6k+ acre $10M+ ranch on top of it? And he's getting rewarded for doing all of this?! hell nah. These are very calculated choices that he made, he shouldn't get to be the victim here and make everything more difficult. Everything about this whole situation sucks. Then you have all these immature boys slapping him on the back for getting the money. Yeah, he's getting that for real upstanding reasons.
Genuine question. Can someone explain to me how "sponsoring rodeos" can be a career choice? Wouldn't that generally be a money loser and what exactly is he sponsoring it with? I feel like The Blast must've left some other things out of that section??
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Post by QAF on Jul 28, 2021 12:33:04 GMT -5
Brandon is a loser.
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The album that never ends... I mean 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY' out now!
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Post by schnetzka on Jul 28, 2021 12:37:06 GMT -5
So I don't really know how it works but why does she have to pay him child support if she has custody more often? Also does he have to pay her child support? Considering the amount of money involved in this, it makes it a little more confusing (maybe it's just me).
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Jul 28, 2021 13:09:23 GMT -5
So I don't really know how it works but why does she have to pay him child support if she has custody more often? Also does he have to pay her child support? Considering the amount of money involved in this, it makes it a little more confusing (maybe it's just me). In general, that is not completely out of left field even though the numbers seem huge to us as normies who are not rich. Kelly makes so much more than him that, even though he will have the kids less, he would still need some cash to make it a bit more even. The general idea is to keep things somewhat equal between parents so kids aren't in a mansion in one house and a shack in another so there is a pretty rigid formula that is applied. It's probably much less than if he was primary custodian or even half/half though. I expected a "little" child support. I naively didn't expect so much alimony. Christ, what a loser taking money from her to go play rodeo. What is he, five years old?
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Post by Choco on Jul 28, 2021 13:41:00 GMT -5
I always hate it when a relationship that had so much love turns sour so much. Why is he taking money from her? She was huge before she met him, she'll be huge after they're done with this. Opportunistic loser. I get the child support, I don't get the need for spousal support.
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Post by mamaloveme on Jul 28, 2021 13:47:46 GMT -5
he is not managing anymore?? so Blake Shelton fired his ass too??? the saddest thing is she has to pays his attorney fees 200k a month thats suck
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2021 13:58:05 GMT -5
I've been trying to stay level-headed on this whole thing but I have to vent for a moment. What bothers me the most about all of this isn't that he's getting paid, that was to be expected when one party earns more than the other and I would say the same thing if the people were reversed. When there's a lot of money involved, numbers tend to be bigger than normal, but he isn't some homemaker or minimum wage earner, he had a very nice job that he deliberately quit to be a rancher. What bothers me the most is that he quit his life, and that includes quitting on his young kids, that was supposedly agreed on with his wife which he had pushed for her to do, to go do all of this. I don't doubt that this has been a passion of his since he was a teenager, but you don't just quit like this after upending the life of everyone else just years earlier. Then he gets to keep the 6k+ acre $10M+ ranch on top of it? And he's getting rewarded for doing all of this?! hell nah. These are very calculated choices that he made, he shouldn't get to be the victim here and make everything more difficult. Everything about this whole situation sucks. Then you have all these immature boys slapping him on the back for getting the money. Yeah, he's getting that for real upstanding reasons. Genuine question. Can someone explain to me how "sponsoring rodeos" can be a career choice? Wouldn't that generally be a money loser and what exactly is he sponsoring it with? I feel like The Blast must've left some other things out of that section?? /vent Well, first let's just state the obvious - he only had two major clients as a manager, is divorcing one, and now claiming 'minimal' involvement with the other one. What other skills or work experience does Brandon have? What else could he do to make money? It's definitely possible that I am missing some details, but as far as I can tell he basically 'quit' his life because he had little other choice. The man lost his main job when he lost his wife and nothing about him indicates he has the background to do anything else except hunt. He and Kelly bought the ranch about three years ago, the same year she first started working on The Voice. Lives were going to be upended regardless because they had to accommodate the move to LA. Mainly I would question exactly how the conversation about buying this property at the same time they were already dealing with a big move across the country went down, and assuming it was Brandon's idea I would side eye the motive, but in doing so I'd be questioning something that happened before the marriage fell apart. I would not assume he is quitting on his family by trying to hold on to Montana. As for the rodeos the word 'sponsoring' was maybe not the best word to choose. There is a such thing as rodeo sponsorship where one contributes money or supplies to a rodeo in return for being mentioned in all of the rodeo's promotional materials and/or prize names, but like you said that would be an immediate money loser and no one would entertain that as a realistic 'career' choice. So when I read that, I interpreted it as him planning to host rodeo events. He'd make his money either from actual sponsors + participant fees if directly putting on the rodeos himself, or from renting out the ranch to others organizing an event (in which case he would be the 'sponsor' I guess by having the ranch name all over the place, but he'd be receiving the money for that rather than spending it). This is not to give him any undeserved credit or a benefit of a doubt by any means - I also wouldn't put it past him to have decided to ranch and rodeo because his attorneys advised him that tying his professional occupation to the land would be the best way to keep Kelly from being able to sell it. I just think the ranch/rodeo thing is (mostly) the end result of him not having other options. So I don't really know how it works but why does she have to pay him child support if she has custody more often? Also does he have to pay her child support? Considering the amount of money involved in this, it makes it a little more confusing (maybe it's just me). She has primary custody, but he still has visitation and the kids will stay with him sometimes. Child support in the US is based on the believe that the child(ren) should have the same standard of living at all times of the year. 45k seems like a lot, even if spread over two kids, but I'm sure that's the part Kelly cares the least about paying. The biggest head scratcher to me is the spousal support being more than 4x the amount of child support for two kids. That seems rather absurd even it is, relatively speaking, a mere drop in the bucket for Kelly. I'm not sure how common it is for spousal support to be larger than child support in divorce settlements though, and it's not every day that a divorce involves a couple where one spouse was the other one's employer.
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Post by slowmo on Jul 28, 2021 15:16:04 GMT -5
As for the rodeos the word 'sponsoring' was maybe not the best word to choose. There is a such thing as rodeo sponsorship where one contributes money or supplies to a rodeo in return for being mentioned in all of the rodeo's promotional materials and/or prize names, but like you said that would be an immediate money loser and no one would entertain that as a realistic 'career' choice. So when I read that, I interpreted it as him planning to host rodeo events. He'd make his money either from actual sponsors + participant fees if directly putting on the rodeos himself, or from renting out the ranch to others organizing an event (in which case he would be the 'sponsor' I guess by having the ranch name all over the place, but he'd be receiving the money for that rather than spending it). This is not to give him any undeserved credit or a benefit of a doubt by any means - I also wouldn't put it past him to have decided to ranch and rodeo because his attorneys advised him that tying his professional occupation to the land would be the best way to keep Kelly from being able to sell it. I just think the ranch/rodeo thing is (mostly) the end result of him not having other options. Ok, that makes much more sense and a much more likely scenario. Just another thought that came to mind over the MT property, since CA is a "community property" state, I wonder if since he's able to keep that, she'll get to keep the majority of the money made off the sales of their other properties to offset that? I'm pretty naive (luckily) to how everything shakes out with this stuff so I appreciate the insight some of you have on some of the more inner workings at play here.
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Post by ificanthaveyou on Jul 28, 2021 16:19:07 GMT -5
Brandon always seemed like an opportunist to me. I always had a bad feeling in my gut about him, but Kelly was happy and I didn’t want to be a pessimist. I hope he just wasn’t with her to set himself up but it kind of feels like it at this point. You’re too good for him anyways Kelly, you’ll find a man that will love you more than you could have ever imagined! Less conservative Republican next time though, girl!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2021 16:22:09 GMT -5
As for the rodeos the word 'sponsoring' was maybe not the best word to choose. There is a such thing as rodeo sponsorship where one contributes money or supplies to a rodeo in return for being mentioned in all of the rodeo's promotional materials and/or prize names, but like you said that would be an immediate money loser and no one would entertain that as a realistic 'career' choice. So when I read that, I interpreted it as him planning to host rodeo events. He'd make his money either from actual sponsors + participant fees if directly putting on the rodeos himself, or from renting out the ranch to others organizing an event (in which case he would be the 'sponsor' I guess by having the ranch name all over the place, but he'd be receiving the money for that rather than spending it). This is not to give him any undeserved credit or a benefit of a doubt by any means - I also wouldn't put it past him to have decided to ranch and rodeo because his attorneys advised him that tying his professional occupation to the land would be the best way to keep Kelly from being able to sell it. I just think the ranch/rodeo thing is (mostly) the end result of him not having other options. Ok, that makes much more sense and a much more likely scenario. Just another thought that came to mind over the MT property, since CA is a "community property" state, I wonder if since he's able to keep that, she'll get to keep the majority of the money made off the sales of their other properties to offset that? I'm pretty naive (luckily) to how everything shakes out with this stuff so I appreciate the insight some of you have on some of the more inner workings at play here. The default is to split proceeds from property jointly acquired during the marriage 50/50, but an even split is not always the case. I'm surprised the CA mansion wasn't mentioned since it's still on the market, but maybe that's something that was already settled by the prenup and/or the fact that neither person was attached to any of the other properties. The ranch got the main focus because one person wanted to sell and the other didn't. The Nashville house finally sold last month for $6.3 million. The Encino house is priced at $9 million (this is a price drop from an initial 9.995 mil listing and she may have to price drop one or two more times to move it, but it shouldn't sell for less than the 8.5 she paid for it). If she's taking 50% of the sales from the houses that alone would more than offset everything.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Jul 28, 2021 16:42:28 GMT -5
Brandon always seemed like an opportunist to me. I always had a bad feeling in my gut about him, but Kelly was happy and I didn’t want to be a pessimist. I hope he just wasn’t with her to set himself up but it kind of feels like it at this point. You’re too good for him anyways Kelly, you’ll find a man that will love you more than you could have ever imagined! Less conservative Republican next time though, girl! I always disliked him too, mostly because he is a conservative gun freak republican which seems so at odds with what Kelly herself stands for. But, my possibly irrational and unfair bias is raging with that especially in the Trump era where I just assume every super conservative gun freak Republican is terrible lol. She did seem so genuinely in love with him though and vice versa. I'm sorry it didn't work out for her and I hope the alimony is only for a few years rather than something crazy like in perpetuity.
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Post by dbhmr on Jul 28, 2021 16:45:58 GMT -5
The way I need all of this right now
This all sucks but it's nice to read through everyone supporting her/hating on Brandon on Twitter 🥰
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Post by QAF on Jul 30, 2021 8:44:45 GMT -5
You know I've always kinda wondered if their political/core belief differences had something to do with the breakup.
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Post by popwilsonbee on Jul 30, 2021 13:01:33 GMT -5
I REALLY doubt after 8 years Kelly and Brandon just started having problems due to their political differences, unlike many others while Kelly is definitely liberal she’s been Republican before and always seemed even keel and more Center than anything and was ok with other politicalafflication. Additionally Kelly had strong feelings about divorce so I doubt if this was that she wouldn’t fight harder and work to stay together. I think she found out many things including potentially the cheating and or the lies about the business/$$$
I assumed the ranch was a plan after the LA move to spend there for work then have a getaway. Thus even though primarily they planned to live and stay in LA they can access their rural roots a little instead of having to go to Nashville
slomo,I feel the same thoughts as you though I do think you can have success in ranch/rodeos. I’ll give the benefit of doubt and say it is a true passion of his but he could have funded this with own money and not expect her to fund it. This is a man who has millions without her.
I believe spousal is only 2.5 more years and she’s been paying since a year ago because it’s only allowed for half of the length of their marriage. At least the child support is much lower which she will have to pay 13 more years
I wonder if a lot of his actions to ask this ridiculously money was seeing how his dad did Reba and/or with daddy’s advice and input
I disagree with the notion without Kelly Brandon has no job. He was with Rascal Flatts for a long time and I doubt Blake was going to dump him anytime soon. He was in charge of a somewhat huge management company earning millions and I doubt losing Kelly would have made his pay check 100k a month/low. Kelly was a successful Grammy winning singer prior to marriage and he was a successful manager. That’s why she should not be paying this much. This weird justification like he was sitting at home being a stay home parent is a weird and wrong take to justify this as “equality” no he was out here making millions. Everyone online thinks she has no prenup because these numbers are way too high lol
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Post by neally on Jul 30, 2021 21:44:18 GMT -5
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Post by keeptheflowers on Jul 31, 2021 13:48:09 GMT -5
whew
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Post by Repent Yourself Away on Aug 1, 2021 14:58:32 GMT -5
Off topic:
Does anyone remember a People Like Us remix that isolated the oh oh BGVs? It’s definitely not one of the official ones. Figured someone here may remember where to find it.
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Post by Mike on Aug 1, 2021 15:50:52 GMT -5
Not sure of the exact remix, but KCE Media Archives has a video of the stems on YouTube.
And here's "Catch My Breath"!
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Post by keeptheflowers on Aug 2, 2021 12:40:03 GMT -5
Random post but just thinking of how beautiful and classy this album cover is. it might not be my top 1 cover (WIR is probably) but the b&w and her beautiful eyes makes it an instant classic. Her most important album to me too personally.
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Post by carrieidol1 on Aug 2, 2021 13:16:52 GMT -5
Random post but just thinking of how beautiful and classy this album cover is. it might not be my top 1 cover (WIR is probably) but the b&w and her beautiful eyes makes it an instant classic. Her most important album to me too personally. I feel like this album took Kelly from A-list pop star to icon. It set her up really well for everything that has happened since. Crazy to think this was ten years ago.
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Post by SoMuchToSay on Aug 2, 2021 18:23:43 GMT -5
Agreed. Stronger is her best album overall, hands down. Such a big moment for her. I'll never forget early 2012, and Stronger (WDKY) shooting straight to No. 1. It was such a fun time to be a KC fan.
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Post by musicfan134 on Aug 2, 2021 18:47:37 GMT -5
I can't believe we're coming up on the 10 year anniversary of Stronger. Fantastic album.
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Post by ampersand on Aug 2, 2021 22:16:08 GMT -5
I wish RCA would release more of her catalogue on vinyl, honestly. The Breakaway vinyl was a neat surprise.
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Post by slowmo on Aug 2, 2021 22:17:01 GMT -5
That's bonkers that it's almost 10 years for that album. It's also crazy that it followed so many leaks, including many of those songs that were on the album, and still did so well. I agree with carrieidol1 in that it really set her up for everything she's doing now. Stronger, MOL & WIR are easily my Kelly trifecta of albums.
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Post by circadian on Aug 2, 2021 22:53:31 GMT -5
I remember when the leaks started to appear, I had two feelings:
1. I was scared the era would be dead on arrival because of seemingly everything leaking months in advance
2. I was SO EXCITED at how strong the material was.
Glad everything turned out great for the album, it's as solid as a pop album goes.
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Post by keeptheflowers on Aug 2, 2021 23:25:18 GMT -5
I see that album cover and my brain instantly goes "you tried to break me but you see what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!"
I also remember how stronger was initially titled "What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)" until they switched it up a bit when it became a smash. Fun times indeed.
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Post by kmbgs on Aug 3, 2021 13:11:07 GMT -5
Stronger is absolutely everything.
NGL Breakaway era was SO much fun as a fan/teen but Kelly really kept us fed from AIEW-WIR in a way that I truly didn't appreciate at the time. She did that!
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Post by Ryan on Aug 4, 2021 7:26:26 GMT -5
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Post by ampersand on Aug 4, 2021 15:25:47 GMT -5
Kelly is mentioned at around the 4:44 mark. A fan asks Olivia what it's like to have Kelly cover her song, and she mentions that she grew up listening to her. Cute!
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