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This isn't even a diss or bad comparison. Taylor Swift had great lead singles, she's not interested in doing that anymore (releasing lead singles) so that's why they're saying "used to". And she just came off what was essentially a greatest hits tour and re-recording her old music, I don't think it's a stretch to say that nostalgia and bigger hits in her past catalogue are part of a reason why she's still popular today. And her old stuff is much more popular that her new stuff anyways.

Conor Oberst? Better Oblivion Community Center II incoming I hope, that's such a great album.

There's a video she just posted to her stories about the Lego collab and she's carrying a honeybee tote bag, so I guess that's the big hint for the next single.

"when you have 1000 guests inviting someone who has a multi-billion dollar contract to build concentration camps is par for the course!" well you see. maybe she didn't need to invite 1000 people to start with and secondly. i think when inviting another billionaire, it might actually be good to know where their money comes from. she's a billionaire and everyone wants to act like she didn't get there by exploiting people but she did, and it calls into question what she's doing with her money outside of managing her music and her real estate.

I think Olivia has handled the situation as well as anyone could have, and Swifties have been super delusional about Olivia. 'Nothing New' proves that Taylor's been having nightmares about a new pop star whose exact description fits Olivia Rodrigo to the letter since the Red sessions, and both of them have gotten their shots in. Taylor looks suspect after making the buying and selling of her albums a key component in her modern persona (the situation being framed as traumatizing, her becoming someone who fights for artists, she's a mastermind for devaluing her masters and buying them back) and Olivia will forever be looked down upon as a copycat artist and will have an extra deluded fandom breathing down her neck for her entire career. The true and ultimate villain here is that fandom. Taylor is at the height of her power, and they're bored and miserable and won't let sleeping dogs lie.

Acting as if none of us saw the video where she was happily throwing Florence Pugh under the bus for Shia LaBeouf is a choice. Florence can keep walking away with a clean conscience here, the only good thing about that movie. Plus she's in ******* Dune 3 this year, she's fine.

She might actually be reviving Lilith Fair, or something female focused like that event. That's pretty cool.

Fantano's review was out of line, but there will never be anything cool about calling out a bad review. It will always make you look thin skinned and petty lol, there was an actress this weekend who did the same thing and it was such a terrible ******* look.

she's going vegan! I had been thinking tomorrow's announcement was more tour dates, maybe dates for performances in Asia or Latin America, some Australian/NZ shows. But I don't think she'd go on GMA for that. Maybe an initiative for her Fund 4 Good, or a documentary or something?

I love the idea of Taylor Swift not being threatened when "Nothing New" exists lol. If we believe the whole concept of the vault songs to heart that means she's been having nightmares about a girl like Olivia coming along since 2011.

It's a non-inflammatory interview, mostly talking about the actual music and her influences so at the end of the day people will forget about it in like a week just like most people forgot about the dumb babydoll dress discourse. Stans will be riled up for a minute, but she's been trying to build up a wider and older audience and this is a good way to do that. Honestly I'd rather her do a purely music-based interview with Fantano over chasing tabloid headlines and getting embroiled in stan twitter clickbait with a Call Her Daddy appearance.

Florence Pugh innocent lol. Tried to sell her out for Shia LaBeouf of all people! How she managed to get out of promoting the film, I'll never understand but I admire it. Her hands are clean.

I love how the songs are interweaved with each other, starting with Stupid Song. the line about being a thread coming undone which leads to The Cure, the whole idea of New York being so sad without him and then moving in together and the anxiety about being over-attached that ripples through Purple. Even the reference about skipping meals leading into her not being able to eat in What's Wrong With Me. She called The Cure the climax of the album, but Stupid Song is the "I Want" song. Drop Dead in this situation kind of acts like a prologue of sorts. I know she doesn't want to call it a concept album, but it's a concept album! It's basically a movie musical lol.

It is very interesting that Taylor does frequently try to befriend the next new thing (whether it's an Ice Spice 15 minutes of fame thing or befriending Lorde to make a friend out of a potential challenger) and the friendship kind of fizzles out, and Olivia was on the list. She had her announce Fearless TV, she gave her a ring and everything and overnight it changed. Whether in reaction to Olivia's mega-success or the credit situation, this cold war stands out because it's so unlike Taylor. She's everyone's best friend, but pointedly Not in this situation. And it does come off as mean because Olivia was a true blue fangirl and something happened, and the next thing you know Taylor's basically calling every other Gen Z girl up for a collab and Olivia's torn up her stan card. Like that **** is personal. But it's definitely not comparable to Nicki Minaj in any way.

I saved Cigarette Smoke until I could give it the proper attention and damn, the swell of that bridge. In this listen I finally put my finger on why I liked "Less" and it's because it reminded me Olivia's version of "Still Hurting" from The Last 5 Years, and in the same way Cigarette Smoke sounds like the curtain coming down on the relationship, a bleak finale (truly the bleakest song she's ever written). The album looping around to Drop Dead after that is kind of like restarting the movie. It's brilliant.

Also, she's just so funny. The spoken sections in My Way and Expectations made me laugh, I can see people being obsessed with her delivery on both songs.

Finally getting to listen with proper headphones and yeah, I was already fully in the tank for Olivia but this is something really special! The one-two punch of Maggots for Brains and U + Me = <3 is beyond, like wow a pop girl actually sounding alive and inspired, amazing. She's still at the point where she is not too famous to have lost all perspective and that makes the album work tremendously. There's just these little moments sprinkled throughout the album that make me throw my hands up at the simplicity and effectiveness. Like the line "they say modern love's a cruel endeavor/and to that i say '**** that whatever'" is a line that a lot of people are gonna be kicking themselves over not writing lol, it's not overthought and delivered with such personality. It's great, I'm very happy to have an album from a mainstream pop girl that feels inspired and considered.

That makes me laugh because the only person to blame for the negative reaction to those albums is Taylor herself. Like, Olivia was off-cycle minding her business why is she responsible for that slop.

Not for nothing, it is very funny at defending the fact that this is a "country" song as if that is not the most successful and some would say it is (unfortunately) the defining genre of the decade in the US and the song is falling there as well. Then again, the song isn't modern country at all, plus that is an audience and an establishment she might never win back should she decide to drift back into the country lane. Another reason why it's not connecting.

if Olivia ever wants to do the whole thing and go in on theatricality that would be awesome. But the way she can do all of that without it is so special, she owned that crowd from beginning to end. there's a lot to be said about girls who are hungry for it, but she's a girl who is completely ready for it. Loved the simplicity and prettiness to the collab with Robert Smith, their voices sounded excellent together.

Maybe, but probably not. You can't buy an Oscar, if someone could Netflix would have a Best Picture win by now. The voting body can also turn their heads up at desperation even when someone does deserve the win (see: Timothée last year who turned in a superb performance but was slapped on the wrist for his campaign). There are three things working against her, which could all be overcome if there is truly zero competition for her: The first is that "Golden" is the first time this decade that the award has gone to a song from an animated movie. The second is that it is for the fifth Toy Story movie. Randy Newman could've and honestly should've won it for the first two movies but he was up against strong competitors. He won for the weakest song he wrote for the franchise in a year where the competition was pretty weak and it was the film that was marketed as the "grand finale" And the third is that it's a country song. "Shallow" contains some country influences but that's not the main genre. Before that won the last time a straight up country song won was in 2009. Melissa Etheridge won for a country song in 2006, and that is pretty much it in the "modern" era of the Oscars.

The original version of 'All Too Well' is great but it's not even her best from that early part of career (the actual best version of what she was trying to do on that song? "Dear John"). The 10 minute version is a plodding, indulgent, flowery mess that has maybe two great lines and none of it carries the same emotional catharsis the original 5 minute version had. It absolutely stopped the Eras Tour dead in its tracks when it just kept going on and on and on. The Cure is a great song, not as good as the original ATW. Better than the 10 minute version if only because it knows exactly when to get in and when to get out.

I don't think that's the truth of the matter at this point either. They have fan overlap, but she's on her third album at this point she has her own fandom and Taylor isn't the gateway to that if she ever truly was that.

I don't think people suddenly decide to hit play on an Olivia Rodrigo song because she might be in a feud with Taylor Swift lol, in fact it is a detriment to her career because that means she's stuck with an entire fanbase coordinating a hate campaign and farming hate tweets about her day in and day out.

I love Sour, but in the long run it's probably best that she didn't win for her debut. Guts was already so highly anticipated and then seen as a sophomore slump even though time has shown that it is a really strong album, so if it had to follow an AOTY win the narrative around the whole thing would've been much worse.