Taylor Swift has dropped Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), her latest re-recorded album. Are people still buying these albums? Yes. They are. [JustJared]
Celebrities like Elle Fanning & David Beckham are at Wimbledon! [GFY]
The full trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon is so powerful. [LaineyGossip]
I kind of love the Moschino heart bag?? [Tom & Lorenzo]
Ron DeSantis is trying to appeal to hate groups. [Pajiba]
Iowa Republicans are still trying to ban abortion. [Jezebel]
The teaser trailer for 90 Days: The Last Resort. [Starcasm]
The funniest parenting tweets of June. [Buzzfeed]
Ben & Jerry’s calls out Independence Day traditions. [Towleroad]
Lots of celebrities (like Cardi B) came out for the Fendi show. [RCFA]
This clip of Harrison Ford on Conan O’Brien’s pod show is hilarious. [Seriously OMG]
It’s here. It’s yours, it’s mine, it’s ours. It’s an album I wrote alone about the whims, fantasies, heartaches, dramas and tragedies I lived out as a young woman between 18 and 20. I remember making tracklist after tracklist, obsessing over the right way to tell the story. I had… pic.twitter.com/I2cLH76EIH
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 7, 2023
13 days til we return Speak Now to its mother 😝https://t.co/WdrCmvLHyA pic.twitter.com/UIO0ZsMnlt
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) June 24, 2023
Forget Taylor, I am insanely excited for “Killers of the Flower Moon!”
Me too! I love Halluci Nation as well. Love that this is being advertised as a True AMERICAN story.
Me too!! Scorsese never disappoints!! I am already choking back tears from the trailer.
As Kaiser said, we will have people claim it never happened. That’s what those that refuse to learn the injustices that white Americans perpetuated against any other ethnicity group. They are “uncomfortable” with the truths.
I cannot WAIT! The book was gripping and I actually think Leo looks good in this (he’s not my fave actor). Scorsese should knock this out of the park.
Yes, they buy them. And she puts out multiple variant covers, so they buy all of them, even while posting on Twitter that they can’t really afford them all. I get that their are fans who want all of this and can easily pay for it, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I am a fan who can afford all the stuff she puts out, but refuse to because it is just too much. And it’s fine. If you’re patient, you’ll get access to all the songs for free in time. But if I were a vinyl collector or something, I would be so annoyed. Imagine being like “okay now THIS one has all the songs” and then she releases yet another extended album version 2 months later.
I can afford the merch, too (perks of being an older Swiftie), and I’ve bought one thing myself, and it was the cardigan. I freakin love that thing and have easily gotten my money’s worth. Everything else, I’ve asked as gifts, and my friends and family live having an easy go-to for Christmas and birthdays, win/win.
I’m just so glad she changed the misogynistic lyrics in Better than Revenge.
Yes! The new lyrics are better in many ways.
So much better! It shows the evolution of her songwriting.
I saw someone call her out for these songs not actually being “from the vault” and demanding proof of when she wrote them. Listening to Castles Crumbling, I concur. It seems more a Reputation era song than Speak Now. She references castles crumbling in CIWYWT on Rep, and the whole falling from grace, hiding, people hating her and not keeping promises fit way more with the Kanye/Kim receipts for Famous scenario.
I think Castles Crumbling was actually one of the song titles that floated around for years so I think she might have actually written that back in 2010.
Also, the theme of a ruler falling from grace and being hated by the people reminds me of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida and during her Speak Now promo she did a cover of that song on BBC Radio or something. That song might as well have been her inspiration.
Castles Crumbling was a known title from that era. The imagery from that song also matches closely with Long Live the final song on the original album. It is the same fears with a different sentiment. Very similar to Nothing New and The Lucy One being written at the same time about the same subject matter, but The Lucky One made the original Red album. The Fearless tour that she was writing these songs during also featured a stage that would light up to look like a castle, which provides another connection to the imagery and if her career were to fade after that.
A bit surprised that this is being in the spotlight instead of albums by better people, who actually need the exposure.
I never realized that Conan was that funny but I guess when you are hosting Harrison Ford, he brings out the funny of O’Brien!!
They were really cute together.
Conan has always been this funny!! Always had a self deprecating sense of humor too. His stuff on late night was amazing and absurd. It only started to shift when he first took over The tonight show after Jay Leno.
See if you can find Conan’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ video. Wonderfully absurd!
Taylor is everywhere this summer.
“Dramas and tragedies I lived out as a young woman 18-20”
Was this when she was more country music?
While I don’t share the strong adulation for Beyonce that many of her fans have, I can understand it. But I’ve never understood the Taylor Swift adulation. Is it just me? LOL
Lol Kanye didn’t get it either 🤣 it’s all messy!
Re: Peanut Butter,
It is not just you. I don’t understand her super fans at all.
She has/does something that truly seems to “hit or connect” to her fan base, but damned if I can understand the attraction.
Seems to me that her fans are very close to the level of Beatlemania fans. Paying attention to everything she does, looking for clues in her songs, outfits, every word she says, and certainly buying all her music and merch, etc.
I like the few bouncy, pop songs of hers I’ve heard. I give her credit she is capitalizing on a good run, keeping her foot on the gas of her career and to crossover from Country to Pop is not easy.
But, I predict, in 5 more years she will be replaced by Next New Thing. If she can hold on to her core fans she can spend the rest of her career touring with just the hits.
I’d enjoy seeing her start doing more charity donations. i.e. Bruce, Dolly.
Btw, the “dramas and tragedies I live out as a young woman 18-20” really annoys me. What tragedy? Was she attacked, ill, homeless, abused in some way? JMO, the drama was mostly her doing and publicizing her romances, etc.
Really good points, HeyKay.
I have a friend who was obsessed with Matt Healy and I didn’t get the appeal. She would post about him relentlessly. Totally thirsting for him. No judgment – this is going somewhere I promise.
Ever since news of his extremely problematic behavior broke, she has stopped posting about him altogether…but still went to Taylor’s concert when she came to town. Not a word on any of it.
It’s interesting to see how some fans of hers are reacting this close to home.
It’s interesting to me one of TS
songs “When Emma falls in love” could be about Emma Stone and her trials and triumphs about falling in love. I’ve mentioned this a few mths ago after the split with Joe,how Tay sees her friends and colleagues around her (like Emma Stone and Jen Law) married and having kids except her. Ironically Jen and Emma(both also the top of their game in their careers) also had long term British BFs before settling down and getting married to someone more home grown. “Sometimes I wish I was her” was an interesting line to the song.