Olivia mentioned that Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert is her favorite book and says it really helped shape Sour. Today I was out walking and saw the book in one of those little free libraries on the sidewalk. I can’t wait to dive into this.
Aqua broke up. Their album Aquarium is a classic 1990’s dance masterpiece. I remember my friend’s brother importing the album from Europe months before the North American release. My friend’s brother was a DJ and always had the newest Eurodance albums. I saw Aqua on their recent US tour and it was an incredible show.
An entire section of magazines dedicated to Taylor and sometimes Travis. I wonder how many trees died to make this possible.
So Vogue posted an article saying Taylor was wearing a babydoll dress. They are harassing the writer and Vogue over this. They also think that Olivia’s PR team paid Vogue to write the article to deflect from people criticizing Olivia from wearing these dresses.
There is a new music based video game out that allows you to use your own music in the game. I tested it out with Good 4 U. The game is pretty challenging and I haven't beaten the song/level yet.
So I recently saw Lee Cronin's The Mummy and was immediately taken out of the movie by not one but two unnecessary mentions of Taylor Swift. The first one comes when two of the kids are playing a game called something like "Rat of Squirrel." One kid mentions a person and they debate if that person is a rat or a squirrel. From what I remember about the dialogue they play a couple rounds and one of the kids mentions Taylor Swift. The youngest kid who we soon learn is a Swiftie says "angel" instead of rat or squirrel. Her brother mentions that angel is not an option and the daughter says something along the lines of "it's rat, squirrel, or angel when Taylor is involved." Really lame/cringe stuff.
The next mention comes a bit later. In the story one of the daughters disappears eight years before the main movie starts. There is an opening scene showing the family doing their thing, then the daughter disappears. The scene above happens after the disapperance. It then jumps forward eight years. They find the missing daughter but she is basically in a mummified state. They try to bring her home and try to take care of her. Of course all kinds of spooky things occur which nobody could see coming. /s of course. Anyway the youngest daughter says "mom says you like Taylor Swift and that she probably missed a lot of her new music." I was able to find a pretty bad quality clip of this on Instagram. Both of these mentions of Taylor were incredibly unnecessary and took me out of the movie. The movie wasn't great to begin with.
This Swiftie is upset with Swiftologist and his co-host and felt the need to film an entire video of basically saying "I'm unsubscribing." He claims they said "horrible" things about Taylor and the only example of these horrible things he mentions is that people commented that Taylor uses filler. I definitely did not have agreeing with Swiftologist on my 2026 bingo card but here we are.
People are acting like she did this to help other artists. Many other artists are struggling right now. Shirley Manson of Garbage said during their last tour many artists are having to take on other jobs just to make ends meet. She said the average musician makes $12 per month from Spotify. The only ones making more are the insanely popular ones like Taylor. Shirley didn't mention Taylor by name bit it was clear who she was talking about. She said this during a show during their last tour: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRTB0KskbPx/
This is from a demo of an upcoming game called Wax Heads. This first customer is obviously supposed to be a Swiftie. Right down to them not understanding why some people do not like her, calling people haters, and buying all the variants.