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| | Taylor Swift wants Juneteenth to be a national holiday & she gave her staff the day off | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Happy Juneteenth! It should be said more often: Taylor Swift has been perfect during the pandemic. I?m being completely serious! She was there, very early on before states began to close, telling her fans to social distance and avoid public spaces. Taylor?s ass has been in lockdown all this time too the only times we?ve ?seen? her in months is through her own social media. She?s been using this downtime to work, reflect and educate herself, and work to be a better ally to all marginalized communities. In recent months, she?s posted heartfelt and accurate statements about Donald Trump?s white supremacy, the murder of Ahmaud Aubry, and the need to take down all of those stupid Confederate statues. And now this message about Juneteenth:
Happy Juneteenth! I want to thank @TheRoot and @RhapsoDani for allowing me to post this video about the significance of today, June 19th, and why it should be celebrated as a National holiday. https://t.co/7yjwh4Lddg
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) June 19, 2020
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| | Taylor Swift: Take down all of the statues & monuments to 'despicable' racists | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I remember when that white supremacist sh-thead killed nine black people at bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, and the state of South Carolina decided, days later, to remove the Confederate flag from the state buildings. As it was happening, I thought it was too little, too late. But the reaction from the African-American community in SC was so positive, it became a reminder (to me) of the power of symbolism in our everyday lives. Especially here in the South, where CB and I live (not together!), there are those kinds of Confederate symbols, statues and iconography everywhere.
Growing up around those symbols warps you. It warped me. ?It?s just a dumb statue,? I would tell myself, ?yes it?s awful, but doesn?t matter.? But those dumb statues matter to neo-Nazis and those statues matter to the marginalized people who pass them every day. So now I say: rip them all down. Burn the Treason Flag. Behead every Columbus statue. Dismantle every memorial to slave traders and traitors. Taylor Swift has gotten to that point too. She posted this on her social media on Friday:
As a Tennessean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things. Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest were DESPICABLE figures in our state history and should be treated as such.
Edward Carmack?s statue was sitting in the state Capitol until it was torn down last week in the protests. The state of Tennessee has vowed to replace it. FYI, he was a white supremacist newspaper editor who published pro-lynching editorials and incited the arson of the office of Ida B. Wells (who actually deserves a hero?s statue for her pioneering work in journalism and civil rights). Replacing his statue is a waste of state funds and a waste of an opportunity to do the right thing.
Then we get to this monstrosity. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a brutal slave trader and the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who, during the Civil War, massacred dozens of black Union soldiers in Memphis. His statue is still standing and July 13th is ?Nathan Bedford Forrest Day.? Due to social pressure, the state is trying to overrule this, and Tennesseans might no longer have to stomach it. Fingers crossed.
Taking down statues isn?t going to fix centuries of systemic oppression, violence and hatred that black people have had to endure but it might bring us one small step closer to making ALL Tennesseans and visitors to our state feel safe not just the white ones. We need to retroactively change the status of people who perpetuated hideous patterns of racism from ?heroes? to ?villains.? And villains don?t deserve statues.
I?m asking the Capitol Commission and the Tennessee Historical Commission to please consider the implications of how hurtful it would be to continue fighting for these monuments. When you fight to honor racists, you show black Tennesseans and all of their allies where you stand, and you continue this cycle of hurt. You can?t change history, but you can change this.
[From Taylor Swift?s Twitter]
When I find myself nodding in agreement with Taylor Swift on a regular basis, you know we?re through the looking glass. I have no problem with anything she said, nor do I have a problem with Taylor being the one to say it. This is an area where women like Taylor Swift succeed she?s using her inherent Karen-ness (or her inherent Darth Susan-ness) for good deeds. She wants to speak to the manager of racism in Tennessee and she?s demanding that the manager of racist statues speak to her concerns immediately. This is called ?using your privilege.? And Taylor knows the power of symbolism too. [Insert snake emoji]
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Taylor Swift calls out Donald Trump for 'stoking the fires of white supremacy' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Derek Chauvin and three other police officers killed George Floyd last Monday in Minneapolis. The four police officers were fired within 24 hours. But they weren?t arrested for days. Minneapolis became the site of protests and riots. Regarding those riots, there?s growing evidence suggesting that white MAGA Nazi types are infiltrating peaceful protests and ?instigating? some of those riots too. With Minneapolis on the verge of a fiery weekend full of protests and riots, the Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman finally got off his ass and arrested Chauvin. The three other officers involved in George Floyd?s murder remain free and unarrested. Freeman even bragged that this was ?the fastest? the country has ever arrested a cop. Like that?s a good thing, that they usually slow walk the sh-t out these kinds of things, or that so many violent-murderer cops aren?t even charged or arrested.
Just after Chauvin was arrested and charged, his wife Kellie Chauvin filed for divorce and her lawyer released this statement: ?She is devastated by Mr. Floyds death and her utmost sympathy lies with his family, with his loved ones and with everyone who is grieving this tragedy.? She either filed for divorce to protect their assets, or she?s seen first-hand what kind of man her husband is and she knew this was the moment to GTFO. Or both, honestly. It will be interesting to see what happens there.
Before Chauvin?s arrest, celebrities and politicians began making statements online. Taylor Swift decided to chime in after she read Donald Trump?s unhinged tweets about shooting all of the looters. She tweeted:
After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? ?When the looting starts the shooting starts???? We will vote you out in November. @realdonaldtrump
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 29, 2020
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| | Taylor Swift posts about the racially motivated killing of Ahmaud Arbery | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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View this post on Instagram
? ? biiig isolation ? ?
A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on May 7, 2020 at 10:26am PDT
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| | Taylor Swift has spent the lockdown cooking, drinking wine & listening to music | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift made news last week because she disavowed the ?live album? being released by her old label, the one purchased by Scooter Braun with the help of various investors. Much like the Kanye West beef, I get tired of relitigating Taylor?s Scooter Braun beef, especially because she?s taking some really strange tangents. Apparently, it?s no longer just about her beef with Scooter Braun, she?s also saying sh-t about George Soros consistently now. One of Soros? companies helped finance Braun?s purchase of Big Machine. Taylor is attacking Soros now too, calling him ?shamelessly greedy.? Soros is a favorite boogeyman for right-wing media, and when Fox News talks about ?Soros? anything, that?s the dog-whistle for ?Jewish people.? Not that Taylor or her people take my advice, but I hope someone is telling her that this really isn?t the argument she wants to make?
Anyway, I?m more curious about how Taylor is spending her lockdown, especially since she?s been pretty good about keeping quiet. We haven?t seen her in public in more than a month. She warned her fans mid-March to stay home and go into lockdown, which I appreciated. Apparently, Swift told People Magazine that she?s just cooking and drinking wine:
Taylor Swift is giving fans a peek into her laid-back lifestyle during the coronavirus pandemic. The superstar singer, who appears in Peoples current Beautiful issue, told the magazine that self-quarantine has allowed her some quality downtime at home.
I love spending a full evening cooking a meal while sipping a glass of wine and listening to old music, Swift told People. In early April, the 30-year-old pop star acted as a DJ for SiriusXMs Hits 1 n chill show, where she revealed to fans that much of her time these days is spent at home reading, cooking, and watching old movies.
But mostly I?ve been online trying to figure out how to help others, and just constantly in awe of our first responders and our emergency workers and our healthcare professionals who are putting themselves in danger every single day that they go to work, she said.
[From Billboard]
I wonder if Taylor is a good cook. For some reason, I imagine she?s a better baker, which I?ve always felt is a separate skill. There are plenty of great cooks who can?t bake for sh-t, and vice versa. Like, I would trust Taylor to be able to whip up a cake or a batch of cookies from scratch before I?d trust her to do a good brisket. But maybe she?s taking this time to improve her cooking skills. Lots of people are, from what I can see. Meanwhile, I got takeout from the same place twice this weekend.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Avalon Red.
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| | Taylor Swift directed & stars in the music video for 'The Man?: interesting or disturbing' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift?s latest single from her album Lover is ?The Man.? She?s already performed ?The Man? a few times at big events, and it?s one of the better songs off of Lover that I?ve heard. I was curious about what she would do for the video, especially when she announced this week that she was stepping into the director role. Well, she released the music video this morning and? it?s okay. It?s some uncanny valley sh-t, if I?m being honest. Taylor directed herself wearing a man-suit and man-prosthetics and she/he goes around acting like an alpha dude. Here?s the
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| | Taylor Swift pulled out of performing at the Grammys amid shenanigans & sexism | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Very few of you paid attention to this and a couple of you were begging for the coverage, so WTF but the Grammys are a hotbed of controversy and shenanigans. It would be notable at any time, but this has all come together in basically the week preceding the Grammys, which are tonight. The ousted Recording Academy president and CEO Deborah Dugan made ?explosive? claims about the Recording Academy. Claims of sexual harassment and the deeply unfair Grammy nomination process, not to mention a claim of rape against the former president Neil Portnow. Dugan has aired her concerns and claims publicly in a TV interview, and it?s been the talk of the music industry for days.
So how will it affect the Grammys tonight? The show must go on, of course, but at least one major musical talent is taking her leave: Taylor Swift was loosely scheduled to make a ?surprise performance? but now she?s not going to do it:
Taylor Swift has bowed out of a possible performance on the Grammy Awards program Sunday night just as stealthily as it appeared she might have bowed into it, multiple sources tell Variety.
Her possible appearance on the show had been kept a secret ? albeit not an extremely well-kept secret ? so her exit won?t create the problems that would have occurred if one of the many performers that had been announced were to have taken their leave.
Sources say that she was never formally confirmed for the show, though hopes were high that the show could nail down an appearance that was well along in talks.
Rehearsal schedules for the taping at Staples Center had included one ?TBA? artist that was believed to have been reserved for Swift, possibly performing her most recent album?s feminist anthem, ?The Man? ? which could have taken on extra meaning, given the charges of sexism swirling around the Recording Academy.
[From Variety]
Taylor was also supposed to attend, in general, because she?s nominated in three Grammy categories, including Song of the Year. But Lover didn?t get nominated for Album of the Year or Record of the Year, the two big ones. (Neither did Reputation a few years ago.) One of Dugan?s complaints was that the committee overseeing those nominations decided to ignore artists like Swift in favor of ?more curious choices.?
Variety broke the story, but they noted that they didn?t have confirmation that Swift pulled out of the Grammys because of Dugan?s claims exactly. Page Six had more information from an unnamed source though the source said that Swift was planning on performing ?The Man,? and ?Obviously, that would [have been] extremely pointed.? The source also insinuated that Swift did pull out because of Dugan?s interview, and the source said: ?Here?s why I think the ceremony will be troubled ? a lot of the artists will feel cheapened if there are voting irregularities around Song of the Year.? I mean? there are always ?voting irregularities.? Not to be Debbie Downer, but the Grammys are fking awful and they never represent what?s really happening in music. They are ALWAYS shady. They always give big awards to ?surprise? (white) people. The Grammys suck. Anyway, I?m glad Taylor is taking a principled stance here, I think, if that?s what she?s doing.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Taylor Swift has been dealing with an eating disorder for years | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are photos of Taylor Swift at the Sundance Film Festival?s opening-night premiere of Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, her Netflix documentary. I friggin? love her outfit here. It?s a wide-leg, sleeveless jumpsuit with a matching coat and it looks stunning on her. My only little nit-pick is that she should have just worn black heels the matching boots were not necessary. But otherwise, one of the best outfits I?ve seen on Taylor in a while. I want that coat.
As we?ve seen, Taylor is promoting and previewing the documentary in earnest this week, and Variety had coverage on a subject Taylor discusses in the film: her struggles with an eating disorder.
In the documentary: In one of the most revealing and surprising segments of the Netflix film, Swift talks for several minutes about having struggled in the past with an eating disorder. After being pictured facing a phalanx of photographers after she emerges from her front door, Swift is heard in voiceover saying that ?it?s not good for me to see pictures of myself every day.? Although she says ?it?s only happened a few times, and I?m not in any way proud of it,? Swift admits there have been times in the past when she?s seen ?a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or? someone said that I looked pregnant ? and that?ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit ? just stop eating.?
Talking about body image: ?I didn?t know if I was going to feel comfortable with talking about body image and talking about the stuff I?ve gone through in terms of how unhealthy that?s been for me ? my relationship with food and all that over the years? I?m not as articulate as I should be about this topic because there are so many people who could talk about it in a better way. But all I know is my own experience. And my relationship with food was exactly the same psychology that I applied to everything else in my life: If I was given a pat on the head, I registered that as good. If I was given a punishment, I registered that as bad.?
It started early for her: ?I remember how, when I was 18, that was the first time I was on the cover of a magazine. And the headline was like ?Pregnant at 18?? And it was because I had worn something that made my lower stomach look not flat. So I just registered that as a punishment. And then I?d walk into a photo shoot and be in the dressing room and somebody who worked at a magazine would say, ?Oh, wow, this is so amazing that you can fit into the sample sizes. Usually we have to make alterations to the dresses, but we can take them right off the runway and put them on you!? And I looked at that as a pat on the head. You register that enough times, and you just start to accommodate everything towards praise and punishment, including your own body.?
She was undereating a lot in 2017/2018: ?I thought that I was supposed to feel like I was going to pass out at the end of a show, or in the middle of it. Now I realize, no, if you eat food, have energy, get stronger, you can do all these shows and not feel (enervated).? Swift says she doesn?t care so much now if someone comments on a weight gain, and she?s reconciled ?the fact that I?m a size 6 instead of a size double-zero.? Swift says she was completely unaware that anything was wrong in her double-zero era, and had a defense at the ready should it come up. If anyone expressed concern, she?d say, ??What are you talking about? Of course I eat. ?. I exercise a lot.? And I did exercise a lot. But I wasn?t eating.?
[From Variety]
That sucks and good on Taylor for talking about it it?s something so many girls and women go through as normal un-famous people, now imagine how magnified it is when you?re as famous as Taylor and getting pap?d all over New York and hanging out with models all the time. That era of ?Taylor the Model? was earlier than the period she?s discussing though that really started in 2014-15, and I wonder if that?s when her chronic undereating started.
Here?s the trailer for Netflix?s Taylor Swift: Miss Americana.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Taylor Swift in Etro at the Golden Globes: not the best but not the worst? | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift was nominated for a Golden Globe for her original song for CATS: The Movie. She did not win. I don?t even think it was some kind of anti-snake thing or anything personal against Taylor. I just think Cats was awful and no one wants to give it any awards. It?s not Taylor?s fault. Still, she came out and tried a look and here we are. This gown is Etro and I?m honestly still working out my feelings about it. Something nice: I kind of like the fabric and the colors and the pattern. Something not nice: the cutout sucks and it ruins the fit of the bodice of the dress. All in all, not the best on Tay but far from the worst. Also: no bangs? She?s a whole new Snake!
Jodie Comer wore Mary Katrantzou, a rather epic affair with giant shoulders, which was one of the design trends of the night. Personally, I?m starting to feel like Comer is the New Blanchett. Does anyone else get that vibe? Shape-shifter who looks radically different every time we see her, and someone who can pull off weird and exciting looks. Anyway, I like that she went BIG and I appreciate that she didn?t play it safe.
Rose Leslie is so pretty and talented, why is she A) wearing this boring-ass Elie Saab gown and B) still with Kit Harington? Oh well.
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| | Taylor Swift's 'Cats' song did not make the Oscar Best Song shortlist | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Taylor Swift at last night?s New York premiere of CATS. She wore an interesting Oscar de la Renta gown for the premiere and I?m still sort of working out how I feel about the gown. I appreciate that she did a real ballgown, because the occasion called for it. I appreciate that the gown felt wintery and Christmas-y without bashing us over the head with a cutesy Christmas theme. But? I feel like the two fabrics are not great together? The gown would have been much better if de la Renta had just stuck with the red fabric OR the darker fabric and not both? Still, it?s a look. While Taylor did the red carpet solo, Joe Alwyn was around, and she was seen holding hands with him as they left the premiere party.
Meanwhile, the whole reason why Taylor is doing this whole CATS thing is because she wanted to be nominated across the board for Best Song. She and Andrew Lloyd Webber cowrote a new song, ?Beautiful Ghosts,? for the film, and the song has already been nominated for a Golden Globe. But? the Academy just released their ?shortlists? for nine Oscar categories, including Best Song. And? ?Beautiful Ghosts? is not on the shortlist. Here are the contenders for Best Song Oscar nominatons:
Speechless from Aladdin
Letter to My Godfather? from The Black Godfather
Im Standing With You from Breakthrough
Da Bronx from The Bronx USA
Into the Unknown from Frozen 2
Stand Up from Harriet
Catchy Song from The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Never Too Late from The Lion King
Spirit from The Lion King
Daily Battles from Motherless Brooklyn
A Glass of Soju from Parasite
(Im Gonna) Love Me Again from Rocketman
High Above the Water from Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
I Cant Let You Throw Yourself Away from Toy Story 4
Glasgow from Wild Rose
[Via THR]
I mean? that?s rough. I actually wanted Taylor to get nominated for an Oscar, just so she would show up to the ceremony and we could have some Snake Drama. But no Oscar Snake Drama in 2020. SAD! Also: the Snake Fam thinks Taylor is being blackballed in the music industry because of her beef with Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta. That? might be the case? I told you, months and months ago, that her snake-games with powerful white men was going to play out MUCH differently than her beefs with Katy Perry and Kim Kardashian. That being said, I think this particular ?snub? is less about Taylor?s two-year beef cycles and more about CATS being bonkers and maybe it was released too late for most Academy voters to consider it.
Here are some photos of Rebel Wilson, Idris Elba (and his wife) and Jennifer Hudson at the CATS premiere.
Photos courtesy of WENN and Backgrid.
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