Can you just not step on our gowns? [artist credit]
Body language 101 his feet are pointing away from her...my fiancé better be pointing his feet at me on our wedding day y’all, just saying 🌈
“This wedding brought to you by Dior. For all of the milestone moments of your life.”
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?😳
I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.
The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.
Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”
She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”
In Bejeweled music video, Pat McGrath is the Queen and judges the contest.
Pat McGrath is Taylor’s make-up artist. Thus: The Queen of Make-Up, or…the Queen of Make Believe.
She picks the performer with the best make-believe story as the winner of the contest!
Taylor learns her winning performance with Dita Von Teese - the Queen of Burlesque.
Burlesque definition: an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody.
Hmmm…An absurdly or comically exaggerated imitation of something 🤔 Such as the Taylor Travis spectacle, maybe?
K you know how Taylor won’t shut up about blue...several hints have been dropped relating Joni Mitchel so I am 100% that JMs album Blue is a Kaylor clue...One of Taylor’s diary entries said she taught herself to play “case of you” - some choice lyrics for you to consider here:
“I met a woman
She had a mouth like yours, she knew your life
She knew your devils and your deeds and she said
Go to him
Stay with him if you can
But prepared to bleed...
Oh but you are in my blood like holy wine”
Hellooooooo
taylor swift, the archer
dusty springfield, all the king’s horses
This woman is pure love, and classy af 💕🌈✌🏾
The police are a gang.