Taylor Swift wants to trademark her famous cats.
The singer has applied to copyright ‘Meredith And Olivia Swift,’ leaving the door open to a potential stage show about her pets, TMZ reported Wednesday.
The 28-year-old pop star hawks several products with her Scottish folds’ faces on them, including $30 T-shirts and a $20 pair of earrings.
Olivia in hand: Taylor Swift has applied to copyright ‘Meredith And Olivia Swift,’ leaving the door open to a potential stage show about her brace of cats, TMZ reported Wednesday
Her online shop devoted to her cats features such items as a $20 set of pens scrawled with drawings of the animals, as well as $15 sets of patches with the same.
The cats’ full names are Olivia Benson and Dr. Meredith Grey, offering some insight into Taylor’s television drama viewing habits.
Olivia Benson is the name of Mariska Hargitay’s character on Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, while Dr. Meredith Grey is Ellen Pompeo’s role on Grey’s Anatomy.
When Taylor appeared on Live With Kelly And Michael in 2014, Michael Strahan floated the possibility of her being regarded as ‘a crazy cat lady.’
Glam: The 28-year-old pop star hawks several products with her Scottish folds’ faces on them, including $30 T-shirts and a $20 pair of earrings
Taylor replied that ‘I’ve kind of talked to my friends about it, and before I got the second cat, I was really kind of canvassing everyone I knew going: “Is cats cat lady?”‘
She explained that ‘you know, two cats is cats, and there’s more than one, you know? But they’re like: “No. Three cats is a cat lady. Two cats is a party.”‘
The Bad Blood singer recalled that ‘Meredith – she was the first cat that I got – she got – I’d post pictures of her on Instagram and stuff, and she was a really beautiful kitten.’
Homage: The cats’ full names are Olivia Benson and Dr. Meredith Grey, offering some insight into Taylor’s television drama viewing habits
Meredith ‘became named, like, the year-end top celebrity pet, and I think on some level she knew, because she changed after that,’ Taylor quipped. ‘Less likely to frolic, more likely to brood and just stare at me like I don’t matter.’
Taylor will be amid a cast including Ian McKellen and James Corden in an upcoming film of the musical Cats, the Daily Mail revealed last week.
Shortly thereafter, Variety reported that the role of faded ‘glamour cat’ Grizabella, who sings the show’s famous ballad Memory, has gone to Jennifer Hudson, who gave an Oscar-winning performance in the 2006 film of the 1982 musical Dreamgirls.
Who’s who: Olivia Benson is the name of Mariska Hargitay’s character on Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, while Dr. Meredith Grey is Ellen Pompeo’s role on Grey’s Anatomy
Based on Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, the show Cats opened in the West End in 1981 before crossing the Atlantic the following year and temporarily becoming the longest-running musical in the history of Broadway.
It was eventually overtaken by The Phantom Of The Opera, which like Cats was a Cameron Mackintosh production with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Cameron was also behind the original production of Les Miserables, the 2012 film of which was directed by Tom Hooper, who will helm this new Cats movie.
Flexible felines: Taylor will be amid a cast including Ian McKellen and James Corden in an upcoming film of the musical Cats, the Daily Mail revealed last week