Save the day, I knew it, I knew you
Are we all still here paying attention? Or did we get taken over. Disjointed on porpoise. Follow if you can, and if you shan’t begone
The movie hopper synopsis
“The story follows Mabel Tanaka (Curda), an animal-loving college student who transfers her mind into a robotic beaver to communicate with animals and save their habitat from destruction, inadvertently sparking an uprising among them.”
(Severance thoughts here but I’ll keep a lid on it)
Meryl Streep voices the insect queen
“Streep voices a haughty, "Miranda Priestly-esque Monarch butterfly who presides over all insects and acts as the strict leader of the mammal and insect animal council”
Iykyk
Meryls also a notable star in ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING… wasn’t there a post about this show not long ago? Searchable surely… side fact Selena one of the main stars of the show has a notable relationship with Taylor.. even featuring in the bad blood music video that Kendrick features on… but you know Hollywood/music scenes are small circles right? Coincidence I’m sure
So SZA did the ending song for this titled Save the day… hmmmmmmmmm
Lyrics are worth a read… takes me back to Luther a bit too…
Interestingly… Hoppers was a Pixar movie.. with Pixar only having one other movie coming out this year.. Toy Story 5… with an ending song from none other than Taylor Swift herself..
Here’s the synopsis
“In Toy Story 5, the toys face an existential threat when Bonnie (now 8 years old) is gifted "Lilypad", a child-friendly frog-themed tablet device. With Lilypad acting as a gateway to online socializing, Bonnie begins neglecting her old toys. Jessie steps up as the main protagonist and leads the toy crew on a mission to help Bonnie make a real-life friend”
Swifts song is titled I knew it, I knew you
Lyrics are here important too as this seems like a lighter happier mirror of SZA’s save the day in some ways..
Some reason this takes me back to sza and Kendrick’s Harpers bazaar interview and discussing feminine energy
“S: You have such Father Time energy. It’s very universal-dad vibes. Actually, it’s more universal sensei. It’s almost gender ambiguous. It’s father and mother because you actually seem quite in tune with your feminine energy. Do you consider yourself in touch with your feminine side?
KL: I have to balance both. At first, all I knew was the masculinity, and I always kept that wall up because of my pops.
But the more I delve deeper into my music and the more expressive I get with myself … that is the feminine energy right there. That’s not the bravado that I grew up seeing all the time. This is who I am, the soft-spoken me, and I have to own it.
This is where my superpower lies. Because if my job is to communicate, I need to be able to communicate with everyone. I need to be able to sit in front of SZA and talk to you in a way where you feel comfortable, in a way where it feels authentic from me to you, you to me, and I can’t do that with a wall up. I can’t do that with my full masculinity”
Or Kendrick saying the word continuum during his apple interview in such a way that stuck out to me because there’s a show called continuum from Canada with this as the plot
“Continuum is a one-hour police drama centered on Kiera Cameron, a regular cop from 65 years in the future who finds herself trapped in present-day Vancouver. She is alone, a stranger in a strange land, and has eight of the most ruthless criminals from the future, known as Liber8, loose in the city. Lucky for Kiera, through the use of her CMR (cellular memory recall), a futuristic liquid chip technology implanted in her brain, she connects with Alec Sadler, a 17-year-old tech genius. When Kiera calls and Alec answers, a unique partnership begins. Kiera's first desire is to get "home." But until she figures out how, she must survive in our time period and use all the resources available to her to track and capture the terrorists before they alter history enough to change the course of the future. After all, what's the point of going back if the future isn't the one you left”
And one of the taglines being “The future is in her hands”
(Again more severance thoughts)
Randomllly mainly this made me think of the CWs flash series and how I’ve been in this research hole so long, what are surely random phrases now stick out in my head even if the show is 10 years old… but in one particular episode a villain was kept in a holding cell and broke out surprising one the good guys by saying peekaboo and something about being tired of being in a box.. then it cuts to a scene at a bar called saints and sinners.. later on there happens to be a Jessie quick that runs away only to hop on a bus to opal city (which reminded me of Taylor’s opalite song and how Toy Story 5s main character in this movie is Jessie Pride) I know I know.. time for me to log off the Lilly pad and make irl friends
Oh yeah back to sza and Taylor’s songs.. there’s another reason those are important.. the release date for SZA’s hoppers was March 6 in the us which is the anniversary of the end of a 13 day siege at the Alamo which was a key point in the Texas revolution…
Taylor’s Toy Story 5 had a us release date of June 19th… hoping most know the significance of this but if not “Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, referring to June 19, 1865, the day when Major General Gordon Granger orderedthe final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War”
With Juneteenth happening just 30 years after the Texas revolution..
Nowww remember how I said SZA’s song gave me Luther vibes.. well in the mv (many of whom involved admitted shortly after to being into numerology—however I don’t know enough to speak on it but this made this seem important) Sza is seen exiting a door 6 and entering a door 13 located next to an exit sign.. idk the release date of hoppers on march 6 which historically is known as the end of a 13 day seige… I mean I know I’m crrrazy but someone tell me I’m not that crazy.. I hear Taylor’s big into numerology too or at least that’s what she said in that one podcast with her soon the be husband (she’s marrying the weekend of the 250th American birthday celebration.. at msg… man at the garden?! lol jk I’ll stop.. unless ;)
Oh yeah this mv gives severance vibes too…. Especially considering all the red/blue… exit signs… oh and the 13th episode which debuted February 6th 2025…
“Severance" episode 13 is titled "Woe's Hollow". This is the fourth episode of Season 2, originally airing on Apple TV+. Written by Anna Ouyang Moench and directed by Ben Stiller, the episode follows the Macrodata Refinement (MDR) team on an outdoor team-building occurrence (ORTBO) in a frozen wilderness”
Oh yeah and Ben being featured in SZA’s drive mv…which debuted December 2024.. I’m just saying… lost of overlap people… driving themselves in both Pixar songs tooooo.. Taylor’s getaway car.. x marks the spot.. big x on Taylor’s bazooka in bad blood mv..
Anywho 13 is a big Taylor number..
I mean she was kind of a key figure in dabeef no? Taylor made?
Her and Kendrick go back… bad blood.. her cheering like a madwoman when Kendrick got his Grammy for nlu..
Ugh I could keep going buttt nah. If any random phrases have you stuck just plug the phrase into any search bar for more context…