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| | Taylor Swift tells fans not to attack John Mayer after she plays Dear John | | Added 525 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swifts fan base is one of the most passionate fan communities out there. Taylor plays into this with all her Easter eggs, encouraging her fans to pay attention to every tiny detail. Having a fan base so devoted comes with a dark side, as we have seen in recent years. Fans have called in death threats to Taylors enemies at Big Machine and The Kid Mero, and as far as I know she doesnt usually intervene or ask them to stop doing this stuff. So this might be something of a first. Ahead of the re-release of her third album, Speak Now, Taylors asking fans not to harass one of that albums main muses: John Mayer. Kind of. She didnt address him directly, but if youre in the know, its not hard to figure out who shes talking about.
She never said his name, but Taylor Swift asked fans not to attack ex-boyfriend John Mayer when she releases her version of the album Speak Now?which contains the song ?Dear John??next month.
?I?m 33 years old. I don?t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19,? she said during a concert in Minneapolis on Saturday night.
?I?m not putting this album out so that you can go and should feel the need to defend me on the internet against someone you think I might have written a song about 14 billion years ago.?
Swift was 19 when she briefly dated Mayer, who was 12 years older than her?and fans have long been convinced the scorching track is about him and their breakup.
[From The Daily Beast]
There is no doubt the song is about John Mayer. Everything about it points to him, down to the fact that the guitar lick in it sounds just like him. I also think that whatever she says to the contrary, she has some residual bitterness toward him. On the extended edition of her latest record, Midnights, she released a song called Wouldve Couldve Shouldve that is also believed to be about John, since it references her dancing with the devil at nineteen. (If you arent well-versed in her lyrics just trust me on this.) I have to be honest and admit that Wouldve Couldve Shouldve is my favorite song Taylor has ever done. For one thing, Aaron Dessner produced it and it is so much better than her work with Jack Antonoff. For another, I experienced a traumatic event at nineteen that triggered a religious crisis just like she sings about, so the song maps onto my own life in a way thats downright spooky. Anyway in it she sings, I cant let this go/I fight with you in my sleep/The wound wont close/I keep on waiting for a sign. Those dont sound like the words of someone who has resolved their anger, just saying. Maybe she wrote the song years ago, but she also knew her fans would make the connections to Dear John. Theyre right there. I noticed them on my first listen. I think John is a sleazebag but I also think Taylors fans frequently take things too far. Heres what I wonder: if the Swifties go after him after all, is she going to say anything then? Or is she going to let it happen? My gut tells me its too little, too late for Taylor to speak up about this now.
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| | Harrison Ford, 80, isn't retiring: 'I don't do well when I don't have work' | | Added 525 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I enjoy the wording of Chris Wallace?s current show, because Who?s Talking to Chris Wallace? can have many readings, and mine is always, ?Is anyone actually talking to him?? After his woefully inadequate moderating of the first presidential debate in 2020, I thought he was going to be encouraged into retirement (hell be 76 this year). Instead he has his own show, where this weekend he hosted Harrison Ford?on the promotional trail for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, opening in theaters this Friday?and pestered Ford (who will be 81 next month) about his retirement:
Harrison Ford simply isn?t ready to retire from Hollywood.
As Ford appeared on Who?s Talking to Chris Wallace?, the 80-year-old Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny actor told host Chris Wallace, ?I don?t do well when I don?t have work,? when asked whether he?s given retirement any thought.
?I love to work. I love to feel useful. It?s my jones,? Ford, who turns 81 next month, said during the interview. ?I want to be helpful.?
?It is the people that you get to work with,? he continued, when Wallace asked what aspects of making movies he loves. ?The intensity and the intimacy of collaboration. It?s the combined ambition somehow forged from words on a page. I don?t plan what I want to do in a scene, and I don?t feel obliged to do anything. But I am, I guess, naturally affected by the things that I work on.?
Elsewhere in the appearance, Wallace asked Ford about what he meant by saying he desired the new movie to be ?ambitious? in his final turn as Indiana Jones. The actor said he wanted the film to ?confront the question of age straight-on, not to hide my age, but to take advantage of it in the telling of the story.?
?I feel very strongly that it does [pull it off],? he added, before noting: ?It?s time for me to grow up,? as he moves on from the longtime action-adventure franchise.
?Six years ago, I thought maybe we ought to take a shot at making another one. And I wanted it to be about age because I think that rounds out the story that we?ve told and we?ve brought it to the right place,? he said, opining that 2008?s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull did not end with ?a real strong feeling of the conclusion or the closure that I always hoped for.?
?Speaking to this issue of age, not making jokes about it, but making it a real thing,? Ford added of his desire for the new film.
When Ford?who has been filming scenes for the next Captain America movie lately?spoke with PEOPLE recently, he said he has not lost any of his love for the film industry.
?I probably enjoy making movies more now than I ever did,? he said. ?I don?t want to be young again. I was young, and now I enjoy being old.?
[From People]
The whole episode is available now and runs thirty minutes long (although I?d wager that the actual interview time is closer to twenty minutes if you cut out the excessive use of film clips). Wallace starts out with a real winner, when he lobs the following question at Ford: ?Why is it that for fifty years people have wanted to sit in the dark and watch you?? I think that may be the most perfectly-worded question in the history of journalism. Glorious, and matched only when Wallace then asks about Ford retiring, and Ford shoots him a look that essentially says, ?I?m not mad, I?m just disappointed in you.?
Truth be told, I don?t know if I?ve ever seen Harrison Ford be such a range of emotions in such a short time frame. There are moments of giddiness, like when he shares that Christopher Walken was almost Han Solo and nearly shouts ?Which would have been FANTASTIC!?, and moments where he?s weepy, recalling colleagues and mentors who have passed. Clearly, it?s the people he gets to work with that bring him joy and fulfillment in his career, and why he doesn?t want to stop. Why should he? He also gives great credit to writers for why he?s still working so much right now. As for this final installment of Indiana Jones tackling age? I?m sorry, but all I?m seeing in my head when I hear that is the SNL take?like now he?s using the whip to help get him out of bed in the morning. Or the lost artifacts he?s hunting down are his meds. You can tell by the printing on the label that it?s an early Walgreens-era-filled prescription, before its overhaul of the DuaneReade empire? PLEASE someone at SNL write that skit! (Once the writers? terms are met and the strike is over, of course.)
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