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| | Page Six: Taylor Swift 'overreacted' to situations with Karlie Kloss & Scooter Braun | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift?s new album, Lover, comes out in a few weeks. I imagine we?ll have even more Tay-Tay coverage on a daily basis as of now. I thought her September Vogue interview was good in that A) we hadn?t gotten an in-depth interview from Taylor in years and it was great to see her so prepared & ready to talk and B) Taylor is always fun to talk about and dissect. Now that we?re days past the Vogue drop, it?s fascinating to me how Taylor controlled every single part of her narrative in the piece, and she didn?t have to answer any questions about Tom Hiddleston or Karlie Kloss, and she merely skated past this year?s Summer Beef (the Scooter Braun thing) with a one-sentence quote. So, obviously, the gossip press is going to fill the vacuum of what was left unsaid. Page Six had a long, juicy, dishy read about Taylor and how she overplayed her hand by cancelling her friendship with Karlie Kloss, and then it just goes from there. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
Why did Taylor & Karlie fall out? Swift has previously said that Kloss had her very own room, complete with her favorite snack foods at the ready, at the singer?s $47.7 million Tribeca compound. But an insider told The Post that Swift was ?furious? when Kloss invited friends over to the home without first getting approval.
A Kloss source says that a simple fight turned into something else: Although both camps deny this [apartment thing] was the exact reason for their split, a person close to Kloss admits that the two had a tiff that turned into ?something crazy.? ?Taylor got upset over something crazy and then she just alienated Karlie,? she told The Post.
Taylor overreacts: Sources say this is just another example of Swift, whose new album, ?Lover,? is out Aug. 23, overreacting to a situation. In fact, Swift turned down invites to both of Kloss? wedding ceremonies when she married her long-term boyfriend last year, according to a source close to both camps. ?She always does the same thing: She trips up when she goes further than she needed to,? said a source close to music manager Scooter Braun.
A source close to Scooter Braun says Taylor misrepresents constantly: ?She didn?t need to say that she didn?t get told about the deal, when there is clear proof and text messages sent to her. She did the same thing about the Kim K-and-Kanye row [and then] Kim just published the conversation online.?
Taylor is immature? ?She became famous very young,? said a music executive in the know. ?And the behavior that we might accept from a young girl ? stamping your feet, acting petulant ? no longer stands when you?re a grown woman.?
Her latest reinvention: Her latest reinvention, for ?Lover,? finds the singer ? who has been dating British actor Joe Alwyn for three years ? seemingly in love with love, amid a wash of rainbows. ?It?s difficult to tell who she really is ? does she even know who she is?? asked one top music insider. ?She can act like poor little rich girl, when she has no need to,? said one source of the singer who owns $84 million in real estate and three planes.
Who is she, a diva or a dream? One person who has worked closely with Swift described her to The Post as ?a pill,? while another who was part of the recent Vogue cover shoot called her ?heavenly to work with.? One thing insiders seem to agree on is that, with Swift, everything is personal ? and, in her anger, she sometimes has tunnel vision. A source who has worked extensively with Braun said of the Big Machine deal, ?This is business, what doesn?t Taylor get about this? He was not doing this just to spite her ? and she?s acting like it was a personal vendetta.? The music executive gets the last word: ?Taylor is calculating and shrewd. Not that that?s a bad thing, but anyone who doesn?t think she feels like she has something to prove with ?Lover? is totally wrong. She wants to win.?
[From Page Six]
When Taylor talks about how the criticism of her music/life/persona is often gendered and sexist, I often see her point. ?Taylor is calculating and shrewd.? She is, I agree. But we would use different descriptors if she was a man. We would say ?brilliant, aware, a true professional, next-level corporate thinker, PR expert.? Taylor IS brilliant? about some things. And she?s a messy, emotionally immature idiot about other things. That?s the duality of the Snake Lyfe. And I still have no idea what happened with Karlie Kloss. But I think that whatever happened, Taylor probably did ?overreact? and what could have been a simple fight ended up calcifying into a massive Cold War/Beef.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Taylor Swift in a Versace ensemble at the Teen Choice Awards: cute or dated? | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos from last night?s Teen Choice Awards. You can see the list of winners here there was lots of love for Avengers: Endgame, obviously. And lots of love for Aladdin, which seems odd, but sure. That movie was surprisingly popular. Anyway, no one was as big a winner as Taylor Swift, who received the first-ever Teen Choice Icon Award. Taylor didn?t do any costume changes, she just wore this same Versace ensemble for everything. I? don?t hate this? I mean, it?s basically a very short onesie, but it IS cute and it suits Taylor. I like the jacket with the playsuit too. As for her hair? this is maybe the best bangs-styling I?ve seen for Taylor?s hair, quite honestly. She?s leaning into volume and a Brigitte Bardot look.
US Soccer star Alex Morgan presented Taylor with the award and here?s part of what Taylor had to say:
?We have a lot to talk about. Wow. First I want to talk about Alex Morgan. The fact that she?s here presenting this to me is such an honor. While they were winning the World Cup they were also taking a historic stand in terms of gender equality, gender pay gap. Please, please, please support her and her teammates because this isn?t over yet. It?s not resolved? What happened to them is unfair, it?s happening everywhere and they are heroes and icons for standing up.?
?I think one thing I wish I would have known when I was a teen are mistakes are inevitable. Sometimes you think if you try hard enough to make every decision perfectly, you think you can possibly ace life and never make mistakes. But it?s normal to make mistakes. If you?re out there and you?re being really hard on yourself right now for something that?s happened, or messing up or feeling embarrassed, it?s normal. That?s what going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We?re all going to have a few scratches on us? Please be kind to yourselves and stand up for yourself, please.?
[From JustJared]
LOL, so at no point does Taylor recommend that people acknowledge their mistakes and apologize for them? She?s like ?everyone make mistakes but NEVER ADMIT YOUR MISTAKES OR APOLOGIZE FOR THEM.?
More photos from the Teen Choice Awards? I love Jessica Alba?s Oscar De La Renta summer dress. I would just take off the neck tie and it would be perfect.
Lucy Hale in Jean Paul Gaultier. This does NOT look like Gaultier. Is it, like, off the rack Gaultier?
Sarah Hyland in a Teresa Helbig ensemble. Not my cup of tea, and sort of early ?00s. Paris Hilton would have worn this in 2001.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Taylor Swift's third 'Lover' single, 'The Archer,' is actually the strongest song so far | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Some Taylor Swift fans maintain that Taylor has a weird habit of making her albums? weakest songs the first singles. Looking back on it, I sort of see that, although I think ?Look What You Made Me Do? and ?Shake It Off? were chosen as the first singles of Reputation and 1989 respectively because they were the MOST pop/radio friendly. Does that make sense? ?Shake It Off? was basic-pop and ?LWYMMD? was a statement of intent with a decent hook. But yeah, obviously those songs were not the strongest of those albums. Taylor seemed to try the same formula for Lover: she released ?ME!,? a self-absorbed anthem that said nothing and was so light and fluffy, it actually came across as juvenile and asinine. The second single was ?You Need To Calm Down,? which at least a ?message.? That message was lowkey drowned out by some problematic lyrical and video choices, but still, we set the bar so low for Tay and she sort of met it.
Given the light and airy visuals for Lover, I kept thinking that the songs like ?ME!? and ?YNTCD? would be the exceptions, not the rule. I expected more ballads and sweet, sad, romantic songs. Finally, she gave us one. Taylor dropped ?The Archer? on Tuesday and this is probably the strongest song from Lover thus far.
Taylor is at her best as a songwriter and singer when she does songs like ?The Archer.? I?m tired of beefs and performative friendships and pseudo-LGBTQ anthems. She thrives when she does love songs. You know who else thrives at love songs? Adele. Adele rarely veers from that lane and it?s fine. Would the Snake Army really have been upset if Taylor?s Lover was just an album full of ballads?
I?ve been the archerI?ve been the preyWho could ever leave me darlingBut who could stay?https://t.co/9q09bUXJlX pic.twitter.com/b2hZ2cHfkf
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 23, 2019
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| | Taylor Swift is the 'highest paid celebrity,' made $185 million in the past year | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift is the richest victim in the world! She really is. She?s a pretty, tall, enormously rich white lady who has convinced the world that everyone is out to get her, that no one wants to see her succeed, that she cannot live her life without mean bullies raking her over the coals over nothing that was ever her fault. In case you?re wondering just how successful Taylor?s snake act is, Tay once again tops Forbes? list of top-earning celebrities.
Taylor Swift is the highest-paid celebrity of the past year, raking in a whopping $185 MILLION which just might help her get over her grossed out feelings about losing her early catalog. Forbes dropped its Celebrity 100 list Wednesday, and Taylor tops the charts with the biggest earnings total of her career. The mag says her estimated pay increased an insane 131% from the year before, when she made a paltry $80 mil.
This marks the second time the singer has been top dog on The Celebrity 100 she was also the top earner back in 2016, capturing the No. 1 spot with $170 million thanks to The 1989 World Tour. Touring is filling Taylors coffers again this time around the Reputation Stadium Tour broke her own record as the highest-grossing tour in the United States with an eye-popping $266.1 million. She also toured overseas, and those shows bring the tours overall income to $345 mil.
[From TMZ]
I always wonder about Forbes? numbers and how they calculate all of that stuff it would not surprise me at all if Taylor?s Reputation Tour grossed (in total) $345 million, but of course Taylor didn?t take home even half of that after costs, expenditures, salaries, travel, taxes and more. Besides, the biggest revenue for EVERY touring musical act is the merch, not ticket sales. Merchandise is where it?s at, which is probably why Taylor is now doing a clothing line. More merch, more money.
Speaking on money and how Taylor is loaded? questions remain about just how it came to be that Scooter Braun bought Taylor?s masters (through the purchase of Big Machine) and whether Taylor even sought to buy her masters at any point. Scooter Braun?s side is still saying that what he did was just business, and that? Taylor is still misrepresenting her knowledge of everything. From Us Weekly?s cover story:
Now they?ve got bad blood! Don?t expect Taylor Swift to work with music manager Scooter Braun any time soon. The ?You Need to Calm Down? singer, 29, slammed the exec, 38, for purchasing her masters ? but that might not be the whole story.
?Scooter has tried to reach Taylor though multiple channels,? a source tells Us exclusively. ?He was really shocked at her response. Scooter won?t be commenting publicly about this? He wants to have a private, direct conversation with Taylor.?
The insider adds that Taylor?s version of events doesn?t match up with the timetable of the record label?s sale. ?The potential sale of Big Machine, and Taylor?s renegotiation with Big Machine were widely reported and in that entire process,? adds the source. ?Taylor didn?t reach out once about wanting her masters.?
[From Us Weekly]
Ever since Taylor posted her essay on her Tumblr two Sundays ago, I?ve wondered so much about the issue of Taylor buying her masters. I actually believe the root of what Taylor claimed, which is that she was offered the chance to own her masters if she renewed her contract with Big Machine. The particulars of that deal are disputed (and Scott Borchetta has the receipts to prove his side), but I actually kind of wonder if Taylor KNEW that she could force the issue and start a conversation about what kind of money she would have to pay to Big Machine to buy her masters. Her lawyer said that she wasn?t given the opportunity to bid on the masters, but? I wonder if she actually tried, or if she thought ?I?m done with that? when she walked away from Big Machine.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Taylor Swift is doing the most for Pride Month & supporting LGBTQ rights | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It?s been less than a year since Taylor Swift came out of the political closet and endorsed a local Tennessee Democrat in the 2018 midterms. She also encouraged all of her fans to register to vote and GOTV on every Election Day. It was a much better move than continuing to stay silent and allowing her silence to be used as a de facto endorsement for Republican policies, racism and white supremacy. As of now, Taylor hasn?t talked much about race and racism, but she has been making moves to talk more about women?s rights and LGBTQ rights. Taylor decided to chime in once again for the start of Pride Month (June is Pride Month). Tay posted this to Twitter:
#lettertomysenator https://t.co/EKYMXZw5U9 pic.twitter.com/Ym0mGeOHgc
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) June 1, 2019
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| | Taylor Swift's business model is dependent on Mayochella controversies & shade | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?ve always known that Taylor Swift is one of the smartest businesswomen to ever enter the music industry. It?s true even if Tay?s haters want to criticize her for everything else, they have to give her credit for understanding her business model and for understanding how to promote herself and her music. One of the most fundamental parts of the Business of Taylor is controversy, hype and headlines. Bad or good, any gossip helps her sell music. So that?s why I?m starting to wonder if the whole Mayochella thing was perhaps too convenient. My theory: Taylor knows on some level that ?ME!? is perhaps not her best single, and she knows that the conversation about ?what is this rainbow-vomit twee mess? would only last for so long. So like all smart businesswomen, she gave people a new controversy: Mayochella, the Billboard Music Awards performance.
I honestly didn?t come up with this theory on my own Vanity Fair pointed it out, that this is always the early cycle of Taylor Swift?s promotion. VF posits that Taylor Swift would rather be part of a ?copycat/appropriation? conversation than being ignored altogether. Plus, Swift understands her fanbase, and she knows they?ll charge forth to defend her honor no matter what, so Tay stokes controversy then sits back and plays the victim. She gets to ?copy? Beyonce, get dragged for it, then watch her fans defend her vociferously, and all she has to do is sit back and give a few ?pity poor me, everyone was MEAN to me!? interviews. And we fall for it every damn time!
Desus & Mero mocked Taylor last night. Just go ahead and mock her, this is part of her business model.
Also, I hadn?t seen this before, but before Mayochella, there were people saying that Taylor was copycatting Kacey Musgraves? imagery and pastel vibes.
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I guess this means @taylorswift is coming back with a country album? ? #kaceymusgraves #taylorswift #pop #country #music #popstar #countrymusic #instagram #aesthetic #branding #color #pastel #bright #heart #spaceykacey #musician #wiwt #ootd #dietprada
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| | Taylor Swift's cat-adoption video will turn people into members of the Snake Fam | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Prepare yourselves, Snake Fam. I am about to admit something devastating: today, I am one of you. I am part of the Snake Fam now (just for the day!!!). As we discussed, Taylor Swift adopted a new kitten, a Ragdoll boy she named Benjamin Button. I heard the rumor that she actually met Benji the first time as she was shooting her music video for ?ME!? Benji is the little kitten (stunt kitten) in the video. Now Taylor has released a ?behind the scenes? video of the ?ME!? shoot, and it?s just about the first time she ever picked him up and held him, and you can totally see her instantly falling in love:
This is why I got a day pass to the Snake Fam. I am the same way, which is why I can only go to the Humane Society or a shelter if I?m ready to adopt. I will pick up a kitten literally any kitten and talk myself into adopting him or her. Some people are that way about babies as in, someone who can pick up any baby and want to take the baby home. I?ve never been that way about babies. But kittens and puppies? Yes. It?s a problem. It?s why I can?t just ?visit? a shelter. I would have a house full of cats and dogs if I did that.
So, yeah, I like Taylor for this and I completely understand how she ended up with three cats. And I love that she was so obsessed immediately, and that Brendon Urie is not any kind of lifeline trying to talk her out of it. And her dad kissing the kitten!! OMG. SNAKE FAM WHAT IS HAPPENING. THIS IS THE CUTEST THING.
Photos courtesy of Taylor Swift?s Twitter.
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| | Taylor Swift brings out her pastel fairy-queen drag for the Time 100 gala | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As we discussed previously, Taylor Swift?s 2019 aesthetic is? very pastel. The Reputation-era styling was ?gritty? (gritty for Taylor) but she?s gone back to sorbet colors for whatever she?s launching on Friday. I keep assuming it?s new music, but it could very well be a fashion line or BOTH. Anyway, Taylor decided to attend the Time 100 gala last night. Taylor is on the Time 100 list, and she even got one of the covers, because the old-dude editors of Time Magazine think Taylor is the most important person in music. Agree or disagree?
So Taylor attended the gala looking like? this. It makes me miss the era where she was trying to look like a Victoria?s Secret model, honestly. I would even take her preppy-Kennedy-era over this fairy-queen mess. I mean, I?ll be nice her makeup looks great. The styling is on point and she obviously thought a lot about how she?s presenting herself with this makeover. Everything is coherent and it?s a full-formed LOOK. That being said, this dress is THE WORST. Taylor even wanted us to see the back of it:
It?s TIME. #time100 pic.twitter.com/sC9zu13CVm
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 23, 2019
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| | Taylor Swift will probably drop her new album on April 26th, or will she?! | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Well, well. I wondered why Taylor Swift suddenly appeared on the covers of Elle and Elle UK for the April issues. I wondered why, because it didn?t seem like Taylor had anything in particular to promote. We all knew that Taylor had been working on new music after her Reputation Tour ended, but no one knew when or how. Going by her past album drops, I was expecting a late summer or early fall album drop, with a glitzy-yet-silent promotional tour. But no, I was wrong. It looks like Taylor wants us to know that she?ll be dropping new music on April 26th, the Friday after Easter.
Taylor changed up her social media (Twitter and Instagram) with new profile pics of a cloudy pink-lavender something or other. Both Twitter and IG have ?4.26? in the description too, and a link to Taylor?s official site, which has a clock counting down until? T-Day, I would assume. Tay Day. Taylor also posted this on Saturday:
4.26 pic.twitter.com/E5cecDmo5f
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 13, 2019
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| | Taylor Swift in Rosa Bloom at the iHeart Radio Music Awards: cute & bangsy? | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are just some photos from last night?s iHeart Radio Music Awards. By now, I think we all know that Taylor Swift doesn?t show up for anything unless she?s guaranteed an award. Which means she got the heads up that she was winning some awards at this iHeart thing. So Taylor had time to plan her look, and it was pretty cute, actually. Considering how rarely we see her on red carpets these days, I enjoy seeing the evolution of her style. She went for a very cute and sparkly romper by Rosa Bloom in a lovely shade of violet. She paired the romper with Sophia Webster heels which had butterflies on the heel. I?ve grown used to Taylor?s bangs and I guess I accept at them at this point, but I wish they weren?t quite so thick?
Taylor took home awards for best music video (for ?Delicate,? which she and Joseph Kahn copied from Kenzo and Spike Jonze lmao), Best Tour and Best Fan Army. Jesus, we?re giving awards to the Snake Fam now??? It?s mind-boggling. Taylor did her Taylor thing during her speeches and acted like the most aggrieved woman in the world. Stay fresh, Tay.
Meanwhile, the former Snake Enemy #1 was also in attendance Katy Perry walked the carpet with Zedd, not Orlando Bloom. Zedd and Katy are friendly collaborators and I doubt there?s anything there but business. Taylor was probably chuckling into her bangs trauma about how terrible Katy looked though why in God?s name is Katy doing this to herself? The too-platinum blonde hair, the sh-tty dress. Ugh. Katy was a presenter at the awards show, and she also told Entertainment Tonight that she would be open to collaborating with? Taylor Swift.
We?ve got the A.I. version of Katy Perry on the #iHeartAwards2019 red carpet and she?s ?open? to making new music with Taylor Swift! ? pic.twitter.com/DpJYvAp3mC
Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) March 15, 2019
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