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MINI SCROLL: Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl, Surviving Lilah Gibney + Sabrina Carpenter x Joe Keery · Mini Scroll

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I have for you guys, obviously I'm having like nightmares about
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covering this. OK, I'm going to be talking
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about Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl album release and
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what everyone is saying about it.
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Taylor Swift has released her 12th studio album called The
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Life of a Showgirl. She released it on Friday and I
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honestly don't think that we have seen one of her albums
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generate so much discourse online.
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Maybe reputation, but reputation was pre TikTok, which meant that
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the average consumer who does not necessarily identify as a
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music stand or a swifty was not like getting involved in the
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discourse like we all are now. So like I said, I've been having
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nightmares about having to cover this.
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I'm not kidding. I had a very restful long
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weekend. I'm in a book club, I think I
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said this Friday and we're meeting tomorrow for the the
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first time. And so I spent the whole weekend
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reading the book and I was just like in the park in the sun with
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my dog. Like it was such a nice weekend.
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And then Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl, the fact that I had
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to cover it on Minnie would, like seep into my brain and I'd
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be like, Oh my God. Because this is literally a such
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a controversial album and it freaks me out.
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Like the Swifties freak me out. People who are not Swifties
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freak me out. Like it's all freaking me out.
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It's a lot. And I'm sure you guys have been
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exposed to it as well. So this time I'm going to cover
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it. OK, I'm going to cover it mainly
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from a cultural perspective. I'll go through the main
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criticisms that people have, but obviously I'm not a music
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critic. My degree is not in English or
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poetry or creative writing. So my expertise in covering this
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album will not lie in those criticisms where I feel like I
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can lend expertise and what I think you guys come to this
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podcast for anyways is the cultural analysis.
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So looking at this album and why it landed the way it did, kind
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of in the context of the cultural zeitgeist right now.
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OK, I'm going to just go through the points of criticism.
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There is no particular order to this.
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This is just kind of what has been going on.
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Number one, people are saying the album is very lyrically weak
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and she allegedly took a lot of samples from other songs without
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crediting them. People are calling the lyrics
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cringe simple not living U to the lyrical standard that she
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set for herself. I've seen a lot of people be
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like, God forbid I hold Taylor Swift to the standard that she
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created for herself. And a lot of the references that
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she uses throughout this feel very dated.
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Like even in cancelled, which I will get into in a minute.
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But you know, the song Cancelled where she's like, did you girl a
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boss too close to the sun? Obviously that is her
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referencing like Internet vernacular and trying to kind of
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make light, I suppose, of how people get, you know, cancelled
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so easily online. And she's being like, oh, did
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you girl a boss too close to the sun?
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Like, I get what she's trying to do there, but people are saying
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even using that term as like a reference, that phrase as a
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reference feels so like 2021-2022.
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OK, the music credit thing is a big issue because we know that
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Taylor, or at least her team went after Olivia Rodrigo for
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sampling her songs or allegedly sampling her songs after
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Olivia's album came out. And she ended up giving Taylor
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Swift 3 writing credits on that album.
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So it's a big issue for Taylor, it seems, or at least her team,
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like I said. And so then to be seemingly
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sampling many songs, songs, there's so many songs on this
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album where I was like, that sounds exactly like this song.
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And I mean, that's not like a hot take that, you know,
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discourses all over the Internet.
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And, yeah, a lot of people feel like there are nowhere near
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enough credits on the album for how much it sounds like she
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sampled other people's work. The second main criticism is
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there's a lot of mean girl energy basically writing what
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seems like a diss track about Charli XCX on Actually Romantic.
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She also calls women bitches twice in the album.
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And we know that she has publicly spoken out about being
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called a bitch herself in music. And Kanye's song, she kind of
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stands against that. So people felt like that was, I
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don't know, hypocritical, I suppose.
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In the Amazon Music intro to the song Actually Romantic, Taylor
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says that Actually Romantic is a song about finding out that
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you're basically living rent free in someone's head.
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But it does sound like almost a direct response to Charlie XX.
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The song Sympathy is a Knife which is rumored to be about
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Charlie's insecurities about Taylor Swift and people found
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actually romantic really mean because Charlie song is more
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like about herself and her own insecurities.
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Now, I have seen the tape that like, sure, if you're comparing
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song to song, maybe that seems petty and mean of Taylor to
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release actually romantic. But these women know each other
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in real life and they have had a relationship of some sort for
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years. So there's a lot more that like
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we as the audience, that's the public as the fans might not
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know. That's probably informing these
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kind of diss tracks. I don't know.
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That's probably not the right word, but these songs, I
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suppose. I've also seen people say that
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Taylor's punching down by putting out this song and it's
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so funny because it's like unintentionally being rude about
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Charlie. Like imagine you heard people
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all across the Internet saying this person is punching down to
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you, you'd be like, okay fuck me then.
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And obviously I understand. Like Taylor is the most relevant
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person in pop music at the moment.
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Like she is the biggest superstar in her position, she
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can be punching down to anyone, right?
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But I just think it's so funny 'cause that's quite literally
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what sympathy is the Knife is about, is about how Charlie
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feels like she doesn't live up to this, you know, amazing
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standard. And people are like, you're
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punching down on her. OK.
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I also did want to make the point here that some fans
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believe that Father Figure is about Olivia Rodrigo.
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I don't think that I think it's actually about buying her
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master's back and kind of like flipping that power dynamic from
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her being a young girl who signed away her music rights
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without like fully understanding the implications of that.
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Being told by these older men in the industry.
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Like you know, you'll be safe, I take care of the family,
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whatever. And then obviously getting
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fucked over and coming back out on top, buying them back, being
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the one in power next. A lot of people feel like this
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album is filled with mag a dog whistles.
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There's lots of messaging throughout the album that people
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are considering to be promoting trad wife lifestyles and covert
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or maybe not so covert, white supremacist messaging.
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Wish List and Cancelled are pretty much top of this offender
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list. Also eldest daughter with two
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specific lyrics. So an eldest daughter.
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Taylor sings I'm not a bad bitch and this isn't savage.
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And a lot of people think that that is a reference to the
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Beyoncé remix of Megan the Stallion's Savage and which they
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sing I'm a bad bitch, she's a savage.
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No comparison here. When I read those lyrics side by
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side, I'm not going to lie, you guys, I was like, oh, that does
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sound like quite the direct reference.
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I have no idea why she would be referencing that in Eldest
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Daughter. That connection doesn't make
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sense for me, but I was kind of like, oh, shit, like that seems
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like a direct reference now. I guess there's a lot of
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messaging throughout this. Honestly, I can't go through
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like all the lyrics that people feel like is a major problem.
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You know, the stuff with Travis and wanting the whole block to
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look like him. And of course there's questions
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of like, did she mean she wants to live in like an all white
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suburb? Like, what does she mean by
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that? In general, do I think that
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Taylor Swift is intentionally making propaganda in this album?
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I hope not. I think she is probably mostly
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trying to sing about being in love and wanting a family with
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Travis. But I think with all the lyrics
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that people are interpreting as dog whistles, it's not really
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about what she's intended, it's more about how it landed in this
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current political and social climate.
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The problem is Taylor can come across as contradictory in her
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political stances and sometimes complacent.
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Actually, I would argue actually a lot of times complacent, for
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example, this is literally just one example, but you know, she's
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surrounded with MAGA in this era of her life, but she also then
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publicly endorsed Kamala Harris. And yes, you can say that people
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who have opposing political views can hang out, but I think
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things are so polarized right now and have become so extreme.
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And like, there's been so much like, escalation in the US in
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this past year. It's confusing to fans that
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somebody with such big influence would be OK with that public
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association if she supposedly stands for opposing views.
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People don't want to hear about a billionaire singing about how
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everyone else wants yachts and money and she just wants Travis
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when she has the odds and the money already and has displayed
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arguably a lot of greed over the years to obtain that.
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And again, I don't think that's what she meant in wishlist.
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Like, I don't think wishlist was her saying, you know, oh, you
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guys all just want this like superficial stuff.
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But like all I care about is the meaningful stuff.
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I really think in that song she is trying to convey that
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everybody wants it all. Like everybody wants to have it
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both ways. You always want when you can't
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have whatever and it's normal. And that's that's very normal.
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But with so much of this album, it's not interpreted that way
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because she is so hugely disconnected from reality and
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culture and the lyrical expression of those messages.
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It's just not like strong enough to land.
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I'm kind of getting ahead of myself, but I do feel like this
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album is the result of a billionaire being surrounded by
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too many white people. And I actually don't agree that
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it's not that deep and that we should just, like, let her live
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and let her be in love and let her sing her love songs.
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Like Taylor has actively worked to become the most famous and
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rich and successful pop star in the entire world in history,
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basically. And the reality is, with great
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influence comes great responsibility.
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She deserves to write an album about love and wanting marriage
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and babies and finally finding the one like that is totally
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fine. And I don't think Taylor wants
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to be a trad wife. I don't think she's actually
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trying to peddle that propaganda.
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But Taylor is arguably one of the most influential people in
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the entire world with a subset of young women.
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And the messaging that she puts out, whether it's intentional or
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not, deserves to be critiqued. And how it lands, I think
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deserves to be critiqued. So if enough people are saying,
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hey, look, it's probably not what you meant, but the way that
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this album is coming across, it's not great.
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That's OK. Like, that's OK that we are
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critiquing that she chose to have this power.
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Like she worked for two decades to obtain this level of power.
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This didn't just happen to her. This is not like, I don't know,
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like a Charlie D'amelio situation or something where she
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just happened to become super famous overnight.
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Like she has worked really hard for this.
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She wanted this. So people critiquing her art and
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how she's obtained that money, that power and its messaging,
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like that's part of the deal. That being said, two things can
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be true. It can be true that Taylor
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deserves to be critiqued, and it can also be true that there is
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so much misogyny around her and her success that she is
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criticized so much more and so much more harshly than her male
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peers. And I think that's the song that
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she should have written instead of cancelled.
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The thing is, like, all of the criticisms that people have of
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this album, Taylor has produced music like that before.
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She has produced music about sex.
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She has produced music that's all about like, you know, the
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harsh criticism around her, her ambition, wanting love, finding
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love, feeling like she found the one.
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She has created music about all of these topics but they've
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never landed like this because altogether this album is so
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poorly put together because it just.
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You can so see there is like an incredible disconnect between
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Taylor at this phase in her career and who she's spending
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time with and how successful and removed from like society she
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has become post eras and the elements of humanity that she's
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trying to sing about. Another criticism is that the
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album concept makes no sense. So she build this very much as
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like a look behind the curtain of her life while doing the Eras
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tour and the marketing around this album it was very
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mismatched with the actual subject matter.
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Like honestly I think she should have called this album the life
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of a happy girlfriend and maybe there would be less criticism
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around it. But her first album post eras
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the biggest pop tour of all time.
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With this album being called the life of a showgirl and being
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marketed to us as the look behind the curtain, we expected
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songs about hitting the absolute peak of her career, the place
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she has literally been fighting to get to for two decades.
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Like, I want to hear about how grueling that ambition is, the
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sacrifices it took to get there, how being an eldest daughter
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influenced that ambition and that insatiable Dr. that she
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has. What it was like being on the
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Eris tour while dealing with heartbreak twice and then
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finding love, the celebration of buying her master's back.
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I know she's given us these things before, especially in
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Tortured Poets. She talked a little bit about
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this, but it's strange that she marketed then this album as the
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actual look behind the experience when it wasn't that
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at all. And fans I know are also saying
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that the people who are defending this are saying, well,
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it's the life of the showgirl, not the showgirl life.
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And like, I know, I know, I get it.
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And I know that falling in love with Travis was a big part of,
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you know, the eras were for her. And I would of course never
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expect an album to come out and not have songs about that
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experience and not have songs about him.
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But the visuals, the branding, the way she personally spoke
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about this album, it just like makes no sense with the subject
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matter. I saw this comment on TikTok and
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I really loved it, Lavender Haze 1990 said.
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I was expecting songs about her alone in her hotel room, about
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the pressure she felt about the joy of seeing us come together
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after Vienna. But we got wood instead.
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Taylor got to the biggest place that an artist can basically
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ever get to. Like she literally got
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everything she wanted. At the same time she's in the
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process of buying her master's back.
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Like I can't imagine she is like on top of the world and her
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first album off the back of that moment of getting everything she
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has fought for for so long was about Travis and not those
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accomplishments. And in my opinion, Travis is the
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least interesting part of this chapter of Taylor Swift's life.
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OK. And the final criticism
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actually, I should say there are obviously way more criticisms,
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but like I cannot hit all of them.
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This would be like a 13 hour episode.
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OK. The other one is that she used
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AI to make song visuals. And I'm actually not going to go
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into this too much because Annabelle will talk about this
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tomorrow on mini tech. So come back for that.
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So that's the main kind of feedback around this album.
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Look, I actually like some of the music on this album.
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OK, I am not a lyrics girl, I never have been, which is why I
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like folklore and Evermore are my least favorite Taylor Swift
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albums. I can appreciate them, but I
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would never intentionally put them on.
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I am very much a listen to music for the vibes kind of girl.
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So there are several songs on this album that I really like,
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and I hope I have been able to deliver this segment of the
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episode with neutrality to an extent.
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Like, obviously I'm always going to share my opinion.
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That's like the interesting part of pop culture commentary,
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right, of pop culture reporting is pop culture is inherently
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social. I really believe that.
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And I believe if you have a pop culture show where you're doing
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pop culture reporting, it's important for you to share your
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opinions on things so people know where you stand.
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And I think that's the interesting part of pop culture
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because like I said, it's inherently social.
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So of course I shared my opinions on things, but I hope
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it didn't come across that I was like being a #1 Taylor Swift
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hater or like too defensive of her.
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Do I believe she meant for this album to land this way?
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No. Do I believe that it is possible
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that as culture shifts more conservative and who she's
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choosing to hang out with appears to also be shifting more
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conservative, she is being impacted by that, whether she
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realizes it or not? Yeah.
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Maybe. Do I feel like she needed to
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have less white people in the room when she was producing and
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writing and putting this album out?
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Yeah. Also probably.
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All right. The second story that I have for
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you guys. Oh, my God.
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This is another big one. But I'm going to be breaking
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down the surviving Lila Gibney saga.
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So I actually talked about this on Friday, but I cut it out of
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the episode. I talked about it because it was
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starting to just, like, blow up a little bit.
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Lila had not responded yet. People were starting to talk
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about it, and I could tell it was going to become a really big
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story. I didn't want you guys to feel
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like I was intentionally ignoring it.
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But at the time it felt like a lot of really major accusations.
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Like I said, Lila hadn't addressed it yet, and I felt
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like it was a little bit icky to platform that.
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So I touched on it in the sense of like, hey, guys, this is
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happening. I'm not sure if I'm going to
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cover it, but like, just wanted to let you know.
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And then I cut it out because I was like, well, why would I say
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like, hey, this is happening and platform it like that for you
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guys. And then not like dive into it.
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And then I'm just like, part of the problem.
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So anyways, that's my story on that.
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This has gotten so big. And because Lila has addressed
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it, I will talk to you guys about it now.
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So surviving Lila Gibney, it all started when Cole Kerrigan took
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to Tiktok to quote UN quote, expose Lila Gibney.
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So if you're not familiar with these two, Cole Kerrigan is a
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beauty creator making content, sharing different makeup looks.
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You may have heard of Cole for a couple of reasons.
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He was close with Tana Mojo for a time.
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He was also a member of Jake Paul's team 10 house, which I
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didn't actually even know until this, but he reportedly was,
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quote, verbally abused and bullied out of the house.
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He also alleged that Austin Mcbroom sexually assaulted one
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of his close friends. And Cole has also been pretty
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vocal about his struggles with addiction online.
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So that's, you know, gained him a bit of a following as well.
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Meanwhile, Lila Gibney is an Internet personality as well.
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Many people know her. Through Tana Mojo and her friend
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group. But throughout the canceled
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podcast, which is obviously no longer, Tana and Brooke had been
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pretty vocal about how they had distance themselves from her.
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I think we've covered Lila maybe once or twice.
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But that being said, Cole Kerrigan is also problematic in
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his own right. He has found himself in various
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scandals over the years. OK, so this whole situation
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started because Cole posted a paragraph on TikTok about his
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experience recently staying with Lila Gibney.
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It read quote deciding if I want to tell a story time on how the
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most psychotic wannabe influencer Lila Gibney treated
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me when I went to stay with her for a concert.
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Like when she accused me of stealing her literal crack
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because she lost it knowing him in recovery and sober.
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Or finding my stolen Dior shoes slash Fendi sunglasses and more
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in her closet that I lost when I lived in LA.
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Or when she made me sit alone at dinner for an hour while she had
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a photographer come take fake paparazzi photos of her for free
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and said I couldn't get in one single pic because I had to pay.
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Or when she cussed me out and threatened to kick me out of her
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apartment for annoying her, having no consideration that I
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haven't traveled in five years since I just got sober to see
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her and a lot more. Cole then posted an 8 minute
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video on TikTok last week captioned surviving Lila Gibney
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story time. In it, he made an array of
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different claims, mostly expanding on what he wrote in
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the paragraph in his first video.
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Honestly traumatizing story time on how I went to LA last weekend
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for a concert and stayed with the most psychotic, robotic, out
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of touch of reality wannabe celebrity micro influencer Lila
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Gibney. OK, so one of the biggest
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takeaways from this video is that Lila couldn't stop peeing
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everywhere. And many people have started to
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poke fun at Lila for this. But I did want to say that other
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people have noted that it may be the result of her transition or
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her drug use. So it may not be something to
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actually be like, Oh my God, Lila, give me just like peas
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everywhere. That's the big take away.
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Like there could be a problem or there could be a reason behind
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it. So Reddit and TikTok have been
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going crazy ever since Cole posted this video.
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Various creators and users like Ava Louise have also come out as
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quote UN quote victims or survivors of Lila, alleging that
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they have been scammed by her and sharing instance of her bad
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behavior. However, Lila Gibney has since
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responded to the conversation and backlash around her.
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In a series of Instagram stories, she pointed to Cole's
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problematic behavior in the past and also alleged that he was
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lying. Quote, do you guys not remember
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him living with Tana and her having to kick him to the curb?
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He has to move back to Texas because he was slash is such a
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horrible incompassionate human being.
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Do you guys not remember when Jake Paul had to kick Cole out
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in the middle of the night when he lived in the Team 10 house?
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I have screenshots from over 100 plus people, reliable beautiful
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reliable souls that have said they've been around Cole.
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It was the most demonic dark energy they've ever been around.
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She finished by saying open your eyes and stop believing every
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fucking thing you bored people are hearing and jumping on the
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hate train for a goddamn fire. The post is pretty long.
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If you guys are watching this you can pause to read it.
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She also addressed the photographer part of Cole's
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story where Cole alleged that she wouldn't let him get him
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pictures together without paying the photographer.
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He was under the impression that Lila was getting these pictures
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for free. But in an Instagram post, Lila
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said quote, I paid my photographer to take pictures of
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me. The photographer said if he
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wants to be in photos or wants solo shots then he has to pay.
23:24
She also shared a screenshot showing that she has paid the
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photographer for his services. Writing me sending my
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photographer money to shoot me in a dress.
23:31
There was no fake paparazzi or this or that.
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I had to get my content for the brand of the dress I was wearing
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and he didn't want to pay for his pics.
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So that's very much in a nutshell.
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Surviving Lila Gibney. You guys can find these videos
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all over TikTok. Eva Louise is always at the
23:45
scene of the crime. Like, she's always in the middle
23:48
of this really niche Internet, like TikTok drama.
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And the number one thing that people are saying is they cannot
23:56
believe that all of this has kicked off literally the week
24:00
after canceled ends. OK.
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And the last story that I have for you guys, this is a bit of a
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fun one. OK.
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We needed something like light and cute.
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So fans are shipping Sabrina Carpenter and actor Slash DJ,
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singer, musician Joe Keery. Sabrina Carpenter is headlining
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Austin City Limits this year, with the first weekend of the
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festival just finishing up. Her performance has gone pretty
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viral, partly because she brought out Shania Twain, but
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also because of her Juno arrest. So before Sabrina performs Juno,
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she arrests someone in the audience for, quote, being too
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hot. She then gives them a pair of
24:38
fuzzy pink handcuffs. Sometimes the recipient is a fan
24:41
and sometimes it's a celebrity. So over the weekend, she
24:44
arrested Joe Kiri, also known as DJO.
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He was also performing at the festival.
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Joe is known for playing Steve Harrington in Stranger Things,
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but he's also a popular alternative slash like indie
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artist. He has a couple of viral TikTok
24:59
songs, including End of the Beginning, You know?
25:01
Joe it's it's actually cuffing season.
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I don't know if you know that it's like we're getting.
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I was wondering if you, you seem very eager actually.
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This is so rare. OK, You're the one.
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We did it, Joe. Anyway, everyone is obsessed
25:20
with this interaction between Sabrina and Joe, and people are
25:24
shipping the pair now. So as we know, Sabrina hasn't
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been linked romantically with anyone since Barry Keegan, and
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the couple reportedly split in December of last year.
25:33
Meanwhile, Joe has been linked to actress Chase Zooey Wonders
25:36
towards the end of 2023, and he previously dated Micah Monroe.
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I also shipped them. I think that this would be such
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a fun and cute couple. I mean, I literally know nothing
25:47
about Joe Carey except for obviously his one viral song and
25:50
I do watch Stranger Things, but I would love this.
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I'm ready for Sabrina's next relationship.
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Not in a trad wife way, not in like a conservative weird way.
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OK? I want her to be single.
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She wants to be single. OK?
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I just think that this would be cute.
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All right guys, that's it for Mini Scroll today.
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Bye.