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“But maybe ‘Fearless’ did present the opportunity for the grandest experiment out of the gate: to recreate something that pure and heartfelt, with all the meticulousness a studio master like Swift can put to that process now, without having it seem like she’s faking sincerity. Let the think-pieces proceed — because this is about six hundred different shades of meta. But, all craftiness and calculation aside, there’s a sweetness to the regression that’s not inconsequential. It harks back to a time when she only wondered if she could be fearless, before she learned it the harder way for sure.”

- Variety

I don’t understand why people are upset with JK Rowling, like why does anyone take her opinions about gender identity seriously? she is uneducated, not an intellect in any way, she writes make believe stories for CHILDREN about magic and other made up shit. She is not intelligent and doesn’t deserve the kind of attention and consideration she’s got on these issues she’s chosen to wage war against. Leave it alone JK, stick to writing your make believe and keep your head out of affairs that concerns actual humans!

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

Basic clownery

Let’s go girls🌈👏🏼🌈👏🏼

Taylor Swift Accepts Woman of the Decade Award at Billboard's Women In Music: Read Her Full Speech

Taylor Swift was the first-ever recipient of Billboard's Woman of the Decade Award. You can read her full acceptance speech here.

Lately there’s been a new shift that has affected me personally and that I feel is a potentially harmful force in our industry, and as your resident loud person, I feel the need to bring it up. And that is the unregulated world of private equity coming in and buying up our music as if it is real estate. As if it’s an app or a shoe line. This just happened to me without my approval, consultation, or consent. 

After I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, my entire catalog was sold to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I’m told was funded by the Soros Family, 23 Capital, and the Carlyle Group. Yet to this day none of these investors have ever bothered to contact me or my team directly. To perform their due diligence on their investment. On their investment in me. To ask how I might feel about the new owner of my art. The music I wrote. The videos I created. Photos of me, my handwriting, my album designs. And of course, Scooter never contacted me or my team to discuss it prior to the sale or even when it was announced.

I’m fairly certain he knew exactly how I would feel about it though. And let me just say that the definition of the toxic male privilege in our industry is people saying, ‘But he’s always been nice to me,’ when I’m raising valid concerns about artists and their rights to own their music. And of course he’s nice to you. If you’re in this room, you have something he needs.

The fact is that private equity is what enabled this man to think, according to his own social media post, that he could buy me. But I’m obviously not going willingly. Yet the most amazing thing was to discover that it would be the women in our industry who would have my back and show me the most vocal support at one of the most difficult times, and I will never, ever forget it. Like, ever.

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ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

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Haters gonna hate; in other news, Taylor Swift saves the world 🌈💕🌈

my favorite criticism of taylor so far is “she’s only pushing *insert political issue here* for the publicity/because it benefits her” like??? y’all??? do you really think taylor needs to do anything more than step outside for publicity???? she could breathe and get a thinkpiece written about it. she doesn’t need throw massive amounts of support towards lgbt+ issues to get publicity. she can do that on her own.

Nothing makes me think she’s a lesbian trapped in a PR relationship more than the fact that she literally has never addressed the gay rumors lol

are you okay?

so...

not a lot of civility out there in the world these days but *adjusts tinfoil hat* let me try and lay this out a civilly as possible...

what is this? can you guess?

looking at the picture to the left, accessible to anyone on google maps right now, you may be able to see that it’s a view from above of construction of a property on a hill towards the bottom. and the charred remains of something towards the top.

what the image to the right shows is the same spot as existed in photos taken recording the woolsey fire, a brushfire that ravaged southern california at the end of last year: November 9th-21st, 2018. you may remember it as the fire that destroyed many a celebrity home in malibu.

sadly... in looking at sentimental and meaningful places to stay while visiting for lover fest west, i came to learn that this property also fell victim to unreported flames:

*i say unreported because, after spending far too much time looking for three maps (one from a review of a guy who stayed there on vacation, one from a statistics-style report of the woolsey fire, one from a news article to confirm the positioning of both images) to superimpose, it would seem that the location of the legendary vogue kaylor photoshoot airstream (as seen below, within the blue encircled area, according to the reviewer) was not included on the map of reported buildings in the area that took damage (represented in yellow and red). but i digress.

i just felt like writing this all out because... i just feel awful for having gone to taylor’s concerts on November 20th and the 21st without having know that but a week prior, this important landmark had bit the dust... although the other day while i went through the stages of processing, i realized i was not entirely sure when exactly taylor found out.

so i tried to see if i could suss out anything and... i found some things.

first... allow me to work backwards here... there was this taymoji gift that was given out on december 4th, from the Picture to Burn Pack:

then i went through my phone and it turns out i happen to have a screen grab of a peculiar instagram story that kristine posted from late november. i captured it because it was unique... though nothing came of it at the time. here’s a gif of me recording it on my camera roll so you can see the date at the top

and wouldn’t ya know, the dynamic duo also posted from california that week (i added the goldfish to the post to the right because that’s one of his kids) and i know count olaf was also posting from there on account from him tagging jaime in his post, who posted something a bit smokier from LA the month before, which she herself points out the connection to.

(please allow for the possibility of rolling each post date back a day due to the big time difference between where i am and they are)

and, the biggest tell of all, that i talked about on my blog oblivious to what it probably was signaling, this post from our dutiful friend atticus, posted November 14th:

i don’t know exactly when the flames hit the trailer... there was no filed report but i can assume it was after November 10th due to news reports from that day showing the barrier of the fire as not including Point Mugu yet... and it should have gone down before the 14th if we were to assume atticus caught wind of it via gossip in the kloffice...

which brings me back to the point about sentimentality.

it seems a tad... erm.. on the nose... don’t you think? awfully dire, awfully grim and dreadful, awful unfortunate, that after all taylor has sung about kaylor (and i include style *because* it was included in the medley during rep tour not because i think it was originally written about karlie) using these themes:

Long drive / Could end in burning flames or paradise

You'll see me in hindsight, tangled up with you all night / Burnin' it down

I'd kiss you as the lights went out / Swaying as the room burned down

that the vogue photoshoot airstream might have gone up in flames on the thirteenth of november? the canonical day that taylor and karlie first met....? like how stomach wrenching is that?

allow me take a step back

i don’t think we will ever know when the malibu dream caught flame, but, i have a good idea of when and how taylor may have found out about it.

taylor looking at her phone, throwing it on the bed, and from that phone blew sparks... i think someone(s) sent photos to her on that important day. how they got the photos? hard to say... but, that’s not the point. i’d rather think about who. who, you may ask, would want to tell her about this with cruel intentions?

someone who can’t help themselves from

at every turn

marking sentimental territory

ripping up sidewalks

appropriating special days

and special locations

and turning lyrics into twisted party favors

and buying up her life’s work

and celebrating it as if she was land to conquer

🤔 who was in the area that week?

now, how dare you suggest i’m pointing a finger. i’m not saying it might have been partially him, why, how could i be? because hey, if we want to judge his righteousness, he said it in a tweet, so he’s a good guy, right?

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