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Now we don't have to convince ourselves that blank space
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sounds better in Taylor's version.
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Oh my God, I'm sorry. Welcome back, Gaspers to gasp.
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The pod, the podcast for the gays, the girls, and especially
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the gay girls. Happy pride everyone.
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The best month of the year. Thank God it's here.
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I feel like we all need this in our lives right now.
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Taylor Swift announced huge news last week that she bought back
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her master's finally, and now, for the first time in her entire
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monumental career, she owns all of her work.
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As exciting and game changing as this is, if you read the letter,
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you know that the anticipated Taylor's version of reputation
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is no more. And it will not happen.
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So on this episode, we're just going to digest this news
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together. I'm going to talk about what
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Taylor might do next and some of my possible theories.
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Is karma real? Is TS12 coming soon?
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I think yes. Will Taylor finally live out her
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sparkling summer? A Gaylord theory that we'll get
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into? Is the glitch over?
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Looks like the numbers are working out for it to possibly
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be over. And is Taylor lying and
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reputation will actually be released after all?
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We'll investigate. Also, I just realized I'm
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wearing black and rainbow, which is perfect 'cause like
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reputation, I mean, reputation's not happening, but the vault
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tracks will be. And rainbow for pride.
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OK, so pride is really important this year.
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You guys, if you are American, which I think like a little
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under 50% of y'all are, and honestly, around the world,
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we're facing just a very homophobic society right now.
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There's definitely a conservative movement happening
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and this just happens. Like there's waves of progress
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and right now we're in the wave of regression.
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But This is why it's really important for us to be very loud
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and very prideful this year. If you have a lot of privilege,
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like if you are white, if you are straight passing me, if you,
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you know, are in a straight presenting relationship, if you
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are straight, this is the time to be very vocal and like
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literally use yourself as a spokesperson for the community.
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We need to just be as outspoken as possible for a community,
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especially trans people. OK, because conservatives like
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to separate trans people and gay people, OK.
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We need to make sure that people understand that we're all one
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community. And also we just need to
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remember that this is not like a party season, You know, this
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isn't just like another party. Right now.
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It just feels like a little bit more protest, but also queer joy
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is protest. You guys get all the things.
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And it's just so exciting that it's world pride in DC and so
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ironic because, like, Trump is fucking president.
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So it's just going to be a wild weekend for sure.
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I hope Dochi says something political.
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I'm sure she will. I also have a little
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announcement because I wanted to do something special for Pride
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for you guys. I'm doing a Pride bonus series,
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so that means that every single week I'm going to release a
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bonus episode along with my main episode.
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This is on Patreon. If you're not a subscriber yet,
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do subscribe because I release so much bonus content and you
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have access to my Pride giveaway.
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So first let me talk about really quickly the Pride bonus
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series and then we'll get into the main episode.
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But my Pride bonus series is that each week is going to be a
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specific Pride topic that I talk about on my Patreon.
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This week I'm going to talk about my favorite gay facts.
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Next week I'm going to talk about my favorite gay historical
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figures that we're probably gay. The next week I'm going to do my
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favorite gay songs and also Gaylord song of the month
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obviously. And then the final week of
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Pride, I'm going to talk about my favorite benefits of being
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gay because there's many. So subscribe to my Patreon so
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you can get all of that bonus Pride content.
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And then also I'm doing a Pride giveaway.
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So I made an entire Pride merch line that is in the link
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everywhere, and then the description and my BIOS and
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everything. If you are a Patreon subscriber,
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you get automatically put into my raffle.
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that ball every week. And that person who I draw will
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get a free piece of Pride merch and I will ship it to you for
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free. That's my paid subscribers.
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But listen guys, listen, I've got a decent amount of
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subscribers, but it's not like I've got hundreds.
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So like you have a very high chance of getting a piece of
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merch, so it kind of makes financial sense to enter, if I'm
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being completely honest. So on my Patreon, you, you have
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pride bonus series and a pride giveaway.
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So check out all of that. And then also, Speaking of
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Patreon, I shout out my number and Gaspers this week I'm
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shouting out Leticia. Thank you so much for being a
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listener. Thank you so much for being a
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subscriber. And you're the best and happy
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Fried. OK, first let's talk about
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Taylor buying back her master's and this announcement, right?
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So obviously this was unexpected.
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I think that there was some rumblings about it in the
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business world. I didn't know about it.
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And honestly, I didn't even know that this was really like a
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possibility in the short term. I thought this was something
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that would happen a few decades from now.
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And that's because it was so fucking expensive.
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OK, She bought her masters and all of her work from Shamrock
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Capital for $360 million. That's an insane amount of money
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and almost half of her entire net worth.
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I do think that she's AI think she's a billionaire now, but
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remember, that's not in like cash, right?
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So she really did have to work the heirs to her and make money
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in order to buy her work back. And I know a lot of us,
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including me, have talked about how like, OK, all these things
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are so expensive. The merch is so expensive, This
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is just a cash grab. It kind of makes sense now why
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she needs to do that. And I'm so happy that she did.
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And we really kind of like, paid for her to get her master's
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back. This is something that she's
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been wanting to do. And obviously, after her masters
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were sold to Scooter Braun, that was like, you know, a stab in
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the heart. Is that a saying?
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But she's never owned her work her entire life.
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She hasn't owned her work. And most artists don't.
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So like this is really setting a precedent and so inspiring and
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so full circle for her, hopefully bringing her some
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closure of a lot of her trauma that she's had.
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I just like can't imagine how she's feeling and it's just
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insane. She bought her work from
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Shamrock Capital that bought her masters from Scooter Braun,
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right? Scooter Braun apparently sold
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them to Shamrock Capital for about the amount that Taylor
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bought them. So I have a theory that Taylor
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has been working up to this deal for a long time.
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I mean, it's been a few years, but also probably needed to give
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Shamrock Capital a little bit of good PR in this situation so
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that she didn't have to like pay for more.
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Because in Shamrock Capital's mind, you know, they need to
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make money off of this. So if they're not selling it for
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more than they originally got it, what's the point?
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So I do think that there was some PR involved because
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literally in the letter she writes like, oh, I would put AI
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should put a Shamrock like on my forehead as my first tattoo,
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which obviously is a joke. But I do think they were like,
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listen, tout us a little bit in this letter, which kind of makes
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sense. But this is literally all she's
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ever wanted. She wanted to have control over
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her work. She wanted to own her masters
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and with owning her masters, she owns all of her previous albums.
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And when she released this, I mean, first of all, I was like
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gagged. But also the pictures that she
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posted of her holding her albums, it really is so full
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circle because I think sometimes, like, I don't know
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about you guys, but sometimes I forget that she was the Taylor
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Swift of like Fearless and the Taylor Swift of like Speak now.
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Like, obviously we know she's that Taylor Swift, but she's had
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so many lives that to see her holding the original versions
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and not the Taylor's versions was like, so emotional and like,
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I forgot that she knew about them, you know?
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So this is just so important for her, so good for her.
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And we will get into in a little bit how these numbers make
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almost too much sense about the timing of her buying back her
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masters. What's also so important about
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all of this is that now we can really listen to her original
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versions and not have to feel guilty about it.
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Now we don't have to convince ourselves that blank space
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sounds better in Taylor's version.
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Oh my God, I'm sorry. Sometimes they're not as good.
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And that's why she wanted to buy them back because like, they're
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nostalgic. They're original versions.
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Like it's fair to like, want to listen to those.
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And now we have those. Oh, thank God, literally thank
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God. And now she probably has a
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little bit less trauma, which I think is necessary in order for
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her to be herself. And this is so important, like
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not just in the idea of her coming out, but also for her
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just being like more than her corporate brand and being like
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her own person, she says in her letter on the website.
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All the music I've ever made now belongs to me and all of my
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music videos and all the concert films, the album art and
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photography, the unreleased songs, T the memories, the
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magic, the madness, every single era, my entire life's work.
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To say this is my greatest dream come true is actually being
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pretty reserved about it. It's fucking crazy.
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It's so exciting for her. I remember when it was announced
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that Scooter Braun bought her masters and when she released
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that letter, I was just like and decree.
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It's just crazy to think like that.
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There was a time where she thought this would never happen
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and then to have it happen it's just insane.
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So very full circle on everything.
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Hopefully some closure for her and her trauma.
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Unfortunately all this good news of like OK she owns her master's
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back means what's the point of releasing Taylor's version if
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now the original versions are actually her versions?
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That's why she is not releasing reputation TV and she literally
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said it in the letter. Now that she owns it she doesn't
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need to release it. My question is then why the fuck
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is she releasing debut TV? She said I've recorded all of
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debut TV but then she literally said she only recorded less than
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1/4 of reputation which is insane because we all thought or
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at least I thought that this had been recorded like at least a
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year ago. Just insane that like we've all
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been like catching all of these reputation Easter eggs Like have
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they even been real? Are we delirious?
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I think both us and Taylor Swift are insane.
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But my thing is like what if she's lying?
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Why would she re release every single album that she didn't own
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except for one and that one is reputation.
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It just seems eerie and I feel like there's like a larger plan
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to it. And again, this is me being
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delusional. I think she's not telling us the
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whole truth. So she did say she would release
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the vault tracks if we want them and they're definitely going to
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be fucking crazy. And I don't know.
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I just hope. I hope she creates like another
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era for Reputation because this is what we've been pining for.
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And I don't know, maybe this is just her like emphasizing
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Reputation's importance. At least she knows how good
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Reputation is. Because remember in the Miss
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Americana documentary when she was like when she found out that
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Reputation wasn't nominated for anything at the Grammys or
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anything major and she was like, I just have to release a better
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album Now She knows because she said in the letter, and I'll
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read, I'll read from the letter in a second, that Reputation
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really is that girl, which it's so important that she knows how
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good it is because we know how good it is.
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And everyone that slept in reputation, I literally remember
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when it came out and I was in college and it was like such an
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important time in my life. And there were a lot of people
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on the Internet that were like, this is really not that good.
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It all sounds the same. What is she doing?
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It's boring. Whatever.
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Reputation was literally ahead of the curve.
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And I also think because she said that she will release the
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vault tracks. What if the vault tracks are
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actually the karma bonus tracks and she ends up releasing karma
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pin in that? OK, let's read from the letter.
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Just the reputation part 'cause this letter is very long.
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She goes I know, I know, what about Rep TV gags?
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And this just makes me feel like she's laughing at us all the
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time. Every time you make theories.
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Like it's so wild that she is on the Internet too so she says
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full transparency. I haven't even re recorded 1/4
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of it. Fucking crazy.
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The reputation album was so specific to that time in my
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life. Yes, and I kept hitting a
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stopping point when I tried to remake it.
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Why 'cause the Karlie Kloss trauma?
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All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling
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purposely misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame born
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snarl and mischief. This part is so queer.
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Shame born snarl and mischief. And This is why, when we talk
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about gay Taylor Swift songs, Reputation is really at the
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forefront. Because Reputation is not just
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about her reputation ruined by the whole Kanye situation, but
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it's also about her exploring this new love, this queer love
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with Karlie Kloss, probably in a time where her reputation is
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already ruined, so why not ruin it some more?
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And she's also exploring like how much she wants to push
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ruining her straight reputation for a woman.
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That's how I interpret it, obviously, but just like her
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saying this in this paragraph, shame borne snarl and mischief
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is just it's it's queer babes. Then she goes to be perfectly
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honest, it's the one album in those first six that I thought
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couldn't be improved. I mean real.
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I don't necessarily think it would have been improved by
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Taylor's version, but it's like we all just kind of wanted to re
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experience it. So I hopefully we really get
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that moment because I think I'm really grieving that I got to be
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completely honest and I'm going through, I'm going through that
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grief right now. She says.
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Not the music, not the photos or videos.
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So I kept putting it off. There will be a time, if you're
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into the idea, like, yeah, we are for the unreleased vault
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tracks from that album to Hatch. Interesting.
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It's just interesting how she's like, they will be hatching.
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Like in what format? I think they're going to be
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attached to something like karma.
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She goes. I've already completely
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rerecorded my entire debut album and I really love how it sounds
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now. Those two albums can still have
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their moments to re emerge when the time is right.
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If that would be something you guys would be excited about,
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like, well duh. But my question is like yes, OK,
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you like the way the debut sounds, but it's like it's just
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so crazy that Reputation won't be released but debut will be.
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It feels like there's something there, right?
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But if it happens, it won't be from a place of sadness and
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longing for what I wish I could have.
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It will just be a celebration now.
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I think this has so many meanings.
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I think this is not just talking about like, OK, she owns the
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album now, but it's also like sadness and longing of going
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through this hard experience of being cancelled, but then also
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like going through this queer relationship that's maybe
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threatening your reputation. Now she's on the other side of
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this and has clarity and time. Doesn't it give some perspective
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bibs? So that's what she said in the
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letter. And I guess this all leaves us
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very confused and questioning what's real or not and like
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losing our faith. And my question is, what about
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all these Easter eggs? And were they even real?
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Do I have an answer to this? No, but here's some of my
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theories with the AM As and the AM as spelled out on her
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website. Maybe this was just a
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coincidence. I don't like saying things are
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coincidences because honestly, I don't think a lot of them are.
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Or did she have to abandon her potential plan to like, announce
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something at the AM As? Or even just show up at the AM
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As? I don't know.
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Maybe she was going to announce her master's or something at the
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I don't know. Did she have to abandon this
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plan after other celebrities dipped and the whole Trumpy
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thing of it all? Because I don't believe that she
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had been planning three years in advance everything to lead up to
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the AMA S just for her to expose the AMA S because she liked the
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AMA SA few years ago. And no offense, Taylor Swift
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doesn't really like avoid things based on Trump stuff.
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I mean, she hangs out with the Mahomes.
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So I don't really think that that had like a personal impact
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for her. I think it was like a cross
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celebrity thing where they all were like, OK, we're not going
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to go to the AMA S because the Trump stuff.
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And also I think it's because they weren't going to give her
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award, or maybe they didn't give her award because she didn't
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show up. I don't know.
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I think that whole thing was a shit show, but I don't think
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there was like a master plan involved with the AMA S.
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But with all this 26 and 13 stuff, it could still actually
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match up. If it's not May, and if it's
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actually June, June 26, the 26th and the 13th could actually be
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June 26th and June 13th. June 13th is a Friday and it's
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Friday the 13th and we know how much she likes 13th and witchy
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stuff. Plus the 26th is when she
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released me back in 2019. Let's explore this theory later.
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But I think with all these reputation Easter eggs that she
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had been lining up for the last few years, I think she did have
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an order in place and maybe she was going to release reputation
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and she was including reputation Easter eggs.
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But like then she bought back her masters.
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So I think sometimes she changes her mind on stuff, but it's hard
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to know like what her grand plans are and which ones will
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fall through and which ones won't.
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OK, let's talk about the sparkling summer theory.
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And I have a theory that she's going to redo her sparkling
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summer and that this will be her real sparkling summer.
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OK, let's get into it. She talks about sparkling summer
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and the smallest man, whoever lived in TTPD.
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Now a lot of people talk about Maddie Healey when they hear
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this song. I think this song is way bigger
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than Maddie Healey and it's actually about Scooter Braun or
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about Scott Porschata, right? She says rusting my sparkling
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summer. And I think that sparkling
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summer, which a lot of other people think this is not my idea
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of what a sparkling summer is, but was during the lover era,
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right? And that was during pride.
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That was summer 2019 when she was like releasing Lover and she
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released me and that was the time that she found out that her
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masters were being sold to Scooter Braun.
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That makes sense why that would rust her sparkling summer.
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This is also the theory that this was a failed coming out and
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that she was going to come out this summer but didn't because
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she was too sad over this like bombshell of news over her work.
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Which makes sense. So this sparkling summer that
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was supposed to be happening was Lover era 2019 right?
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It has now been six years since the OG sparkling summer of the
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Lover era. It's also very interesting that
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Reputation was the 6th album and it's been 6 years since this
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happened. That's why I thought it would
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have been interesting for her to release an iconic, for her to
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release reputation six years after this all happened, and
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especially after buying your master's back.
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I don't know. And maybe she'll like, maybe
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she'll have that moment with the ball tracks.
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And again, maybe she's lying. Maybe she will release
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reputation. Wouldn't that be fucking crazy?
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She's lied to us before. She lies to us all the time.
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She says it. She even tells us how she lies.
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I can show you lies. So again, Lover era was her
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second attempt at coming out. And Karma was theorized to be
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the first time that she tried to come out, but that again, was
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kind of squashed because that was right before Reputation and
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that's when she was cancelled. And that's also the album that
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was theorized to be like the Karlie Kloss album when she had
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like bleached hair. And it was at the peak of their
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friendship, like after their Vogue photo shoot and Big Sur
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moment. OK, so that's Karma.
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And again, that was never able to be released, if that.
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Theory is true and Karma's real, which I do believe it is.
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That would have been her first attempt.
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Lover and the Rusting of the Sparkling Summer is the second.
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Perhaps releasing Karma and his true form during the redo of the
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Sparkling Summer would be the third.
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Third time's a charm. Also exile ends and Countdown
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from 3321. There's a lot of threes there's.
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OK so this is the craziest part that someone told me in the
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comments of one of my TikTok videos.
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There was 2190 days between June 1st start of pride month 2019
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and May 30th 2025 which is when she announced buying her
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master's. That's the beginning of pride
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month of 2019 during the lover era, the OG sparkling summer,
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and the day she announced buying back her master's, which is the
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original thing that rusted the sparkling in summer.
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Is that a fucking coincidence? I don't know like is OK so that
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means and if you guys don't know the reference 2190 days of our
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love blackout is from the song Glitch.
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The question is, is the glitch over?
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Is the Glitch the same thing as Exile and is she finally out of
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exile because she's home now and she bought back all of her work
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and she owns the castle? There's so much here, like so
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much imagery. There's so many metaphors.
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There's so much here, right? It's also crazy when we look at
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this on Glitch because the line is it's been 2190 days of our
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love blackout. Love blackout, you know, could
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be like OK romantic situation ship, but also the blackout of
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lover, the rusting of the sparkling summer.
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The love blackout lover era is like rainbow pretty happiness.
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And then all of a sudden it's been a blackout, right?
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And then Folklore and Evermore came after that because she's
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really fucking depressed. Like it does make sense that
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like the glitch was in between the love blackout, the ruining
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of her sparkling summer and the buying of her masters and then
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coming back to who she was and regaining all of her work and
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then being able to be who she is.
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And it kind of makes sense, this tie between Scooter Braun and
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the buying of her masters and like losing her art and then
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also her queerness. And it just so happens that
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these two major events kind of happened at the same time of her
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releasing me and releasing lover and then also her enemy buying
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her work. It's wild.
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OK, so that's the theory that the glitch is over and the love
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blackout is is done, right? We can resume with the rainbow
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and she can be who she is always meant to be and she can redo her
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sparkling summer now, because it's June 2025.
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Six years later again, exile ends in 321.
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This will be now if this happens, her third attempt at
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coming out. And remember at TTPD when there
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was an error message on her website and it said error 321.
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There's too much going on with this exile with A321 stuff.
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The glitch, I think it's all kind of the same message, right?
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Also we can think about like, why would she be able to come
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out now? Why would it be easier for her
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to come out now after she's she's bought her master's,
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right? Well she said in the letter that
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she used her heirs tour money. I mean she didn't really
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directly say this, but the success of the heiress tour gave
23:40
her enough money to buy back her master's, right?
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If she had come out before or during the tour, we know that
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she would lose fans AKA money. I mean think about what was said
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in the documentary of Miss Americana.
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Even just talking about politics, that someone on our
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team was like, what if I told you you could cut your fans in
23:58
half, which she eventually did, you know, come out as a
24:02
Democrat. But think about what they would
24:05
say if she was like, I want to come out.
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They would be like, you're going to split your fans in another
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half, OK. That is cutting the amount of
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money she can get in order to buy back her master's.
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It makes sense why she didn't want to dilute the value of her
24:19
music because there's a lot of homophobic people around the
24:22
world that would stop, you know, listening to her.
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They would probably burn her CDs if she came out as gay.
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OK, people can disagree with that, but it's the truth.
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So now that she owns them, she doesn't have to constantly, you
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know, try to be making the best corporate and business decisions
24:40
in order to make money, in order to buy her master's because she
24:42
doesn't need to do that anymore. Now she can just settle into
24:45
herself and not worry about, like, performing as this
24:48
corporate brand to be the most lucrative version of herself.
24:52
So it does kind of make sense why it would be a better time
24:56
now to come out for her. And maybe she was waiting for
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this, right? And also when she was saying it
25:02
in the letter, like dangling this carrot in front of her, I
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feel like that's the masters also doing this thing that she's
25:08
always wanted, which is to come out and be herself.
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She says all this time, I was this close, reaching out for it
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only for it to fall through. I almost stopped thinking it
25:17
could ever happen after 20 years of having the carrot dangled and
25:21
then yanked away. She says all I've ever wanted.
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Also this reminds me of daddy. I love him when she says they
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slammed the door in my whole world, the one thing I wanted.
25:31
And that whole song is so fucking queer.
25:33
So anyways, I think these two things are tied right Of her
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trying to get her master's back and coming out.
25:37
And it makes sense because also the trauma of it is tied at the
25:40
same time of her losing her sparkling summer by having her
25:44
master's being sold and then also losing the ability to come
25:47
out. I think there's also something
25:48
here with like, maybe being able to release the songs that she's
25:52
always wanted to that were queer.
25:55
And she says in the letter that now she owns these unreleased
25:58
songs. Perhaps she didn't have the
26:00
ability to release what she wanted to because she didn't
26:05
have ownership of it, right? And now she does.
26:08
So are these unreleased songs that she writes in the letter,
26:11
are these her gayest songs? Is this karma?
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So I guess the question is this Pride month, is she going to try
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to do a redo of her sparkling summer?
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Will this be her third attempt to come out finally on her own
26:27
terms and the way that she wants?
26:29
And I don't know, the 1326 thing on the cake from the I Bet You
26:32
Think About Me music video she has on the cake 13 and 26.
26:36
And we've never had like, we've never seen that clue and that
26:41
Easter egg mean something. And I think there is still
26:44
something with this 26 and this 13.
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And it would kind of make more sense that it would be on June
26:50
because also everything comes back to me and everything comes
26:52
back to love her. And when did she release me?
26:56
And she posted me out now, Oh, on June 26th, 2019 on
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International Lesbian Visibility Day.
27:06
And this was during Pride Week of New York City when she was
27:09
rumored to have planned to wear the Christian Siriano Pride
27:13
dress that originally had meshing for a white person that
27:19
was repurposed for Billy Porter, who does not have white skin.
27:23
So this was for a white celebrity that was planning on
27:26
doing something and wearing this dress during New York City Pride
27:30
in 2019, right around the time that Taylor Swift is releasing
27:33
Lover. And then this huge thing
27:35
happens. She has her Master sold and the
27:38
dress needs to be used for someone else.
27:40
Billy Porter. It tracks too much.
27:43
It would be so fucking iconic if she ended up wearing that
27:46
original dress. Can you imagine this year people
27:51
are so annoying me in this apartment complex.
27:53
Like I can feel people like going in and outside their doors
27:57
and I feel like they're like listening to me.
27:58
It's like mind your business. I'm talking about Taylor Swift
28:01
being gay here. So I don't know.
28:02
I think that there's like a lot going for this theory that she
28:07
could redo her sparkling summer and release something in the
28:10
13th or the 26th, the 13th of Friday and then again the 26th.
28:15
It just like where else are we going to see the 26th?
28:18
I do think she's going to release something soon and that
28:20
she's recorded something because she is amping up her
28:24
appearances. She came out with this letter
28:26
and like usually when she's vocal about something, she like
28:28
continues the momentum. So let's repurpose our Easter
28:32
eggs for May 26th and push them to June 26th because it's so
28:36
important to clown. You guys.
28:38
Everyone's like, Oh my God, I can't clown again.
28:39
I can't clown again. Why not?
28:41
It keeps our hope up. It's important for the soul
28:45
stayed illusional. So what does that mean?
28:47
Like what would she release then?
28:49
I don't know, maybe TS12? I would argue karma.
28:53
I am obviously a karma truther. I really fully believe in it.
28:58
I do feel like I'm one of the only people like pushing for it
29:00
right now. But a lot of people, even like
29:03
straight swifties, believe that TS 12 is coming soon.
29:07
At least in the next few months. She's not going to miss a summer
29:09
or fall to release something. OK.
29:11
And if she does, we need to be worried about her because Mama
29:14
loves to work. So I do think something's coming
29:17
soon and it's not reputation. And I just feel like it would be
29:21
too easy for her to do debut right now.
29:23
I don't know, I would. I'm hoping for something like a
29:27
little bit of a mix up. You know, like when we want
29:29
reputation, you don't want to settle for debut.
29:32
So sorry, I love debut, but it's not the same energy, right?
29:37
It is. It is a peaceful, chill album.
29:40
I we want something with a punch.
29:43
And what's a punch? Karma again?
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This is what I want and this is also what I theorize.
29:48
I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't happen though.
29:51
So the theory is that the reputation vault tracks that
29:54
Taylor said in the letter that she would release and reputation
29:58
would have its moment. The theory is that those ones
30:02
would be the bonus tracks of karma and that she would end up
30:06
releasing karma because maybe now she has ownership of it
30:09
after this deal and that she would release it.
30:12
Would love if it was June pride month and it fell into that
30:18
theory that I was just talking about the 1326 in the sparkling
30:21
summer whatever, but it kind of makes sense.
30:23
Like why would you release reputation vault tracks on its
30:27
own randomly? It's paired with Karma because
30:31
Karma was supposed to come before reputation.
30:34
It just makes sense also to release Karma on the date, the
30:38
six year anniversary of Scooter Braun buying your masters to
30:42
release Karma the lost album would be fucking iconic.
30:49
So let's talk about the meet me at midnight theory.
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I talked about Karma and this theory in a whole separate
30:55
episode, but this is going to be obviously condensed.
30:57
But here's a theory, right that it's the 321 exiles over
31:02
situation and meet me at midnight.
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When she says meet me at midnight in the Midnights era,
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what does it mean meet me the real her?
31:13
And it's also a reference back to me during the Lover era.
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Remember when she released me that week, International lesbian
31:21
visibility Day? But also the time that Scooter
31:23
Braun bought her masters that she wasn't able to come out.
31:26
So it kind of makes sense that she was like, OK, I need a new
31:28
plan and I want to plan something.
31:30
Can I plan something three years in advance?
31:32
She said that three years ago, OK, that she would plan for
31:37
something, a new way to come out.
31:39
Third time's the charm, right? And that since Midnight's, which
31:43
was three years ago, she's been conjuring up this new plan to
31:47
come out. This is the theory, right?
31:49
And that we're counting down towards Midnight and that
31:53
Midnight starts the three. And also, it kind of makes sense
31:56
because during the Midnight's era, she released the Bejeweled
31:59
music video with the clock that says XL ends in 321.
32:02
So since Midnight's we're counting down 321 in years and
32:05
also in albums, We weren't able to meet her during the Me Lover
32:11
era because her sparkling summer was rusted.
32:13
So this is a redo. OK, so the countdown is 321 to
32:18
midnight. So this is the theory that
32:19
Midnights is the 10th album, right?
32:22
And Midnights had three AM tracks.
32:25
She called it Midnight's 3:00 AM edition.
32:28
Then we had TTPD, which was the 11th album.
32:31
OK, that album had two AM bonus tracks.
32:35
Isn't that interesting? So we're seeing a pattern 321.
32:38
OK, then the theory is that Karma, which would be the 12th
32:42
album TS12, would have 1:00 AM tracks.
32:45
What if those 1:00 AM tracks were the Reputation Vault songs,
32:49
which would make so much sense because they were repaired
32:52
together. They're kind of like sister
32:54
albums. And then TS13, which would be
32:57
her real like true Self album, which kind of makes sense.
33:01
It's her 13th album. TS 13th would have 12 AM
33:05
release, and that's just the final release and midnight.
33:09
So go 321 Midnight and that 13th album would just have that
33:14
midnight release, which is when she releases all of her albums.
33:17
And that's when we would meet the real her Meet me at
33:20
midnight. I love this theory and I think
33:23
it makes so much sense and I feel like it's a long game and
33:26
she loves a long game. And if her next album, if TS 12
33:30
comes out soon and it has 1:00 AM tracks like we are absolutely
33:35
correct. And it's just like, why would
33:38
she do 3:00 AM tracks, 2:00 AM tracks?
33:40
It just seems like she's counting down 321 exile ends.
33:43
It just all makes so much sense. Plus, in the letter on her
33:46
website, when she says this in the first paragraph, there's
33:50
twelve eyes in that letter. And I think that a lot of this
33:54
letter is honestly her being authentically herself and just
33:57
being excited about the moment. But I do think that that 12 is
34:00
intentional. We've been seeing a lot of
34:02
twelves. And I also do think that the
34:04
aesthetic of Karma or perhaps TS 12 is like orange, reddish
34:09
purple. It's giving the lesbian flag.
34:12
But I don't know if this would be like her true coming out
34:15
album. But I think it would be really
34:17
gay and like really leading us towards that realization.
34:22
But there would still be probably a lot of fans that
34:23
would be like not getting it, you know, picture like an entire
34:28
album of like Maroons. That's what I envision for
34:31
Karma. So what do you guys think is
34:33
TS12 Karma? Are we going to see TS12 soon?
34:36
Do we think that rap is ever going to be released?
34:40
Are we going to get the vault song soon?
34:43
I really hope she doesn't just send us debut and then head off
34:46
for the summer. I feel like, I don't know.
34:49
There's just so much going on in my head around this and I feel
34:52
like so hopeful about like her being able to release music that
34:56
she feels like good about and her like making decisions for
34:59
herself and not just for the corporation, Taylor Swift.
35:03
So all of this news, you know, most of it is good.
35:06
The reputation part is bad. I'm so sorry, everyone.
35:08
I feel the same way. But the benefit is that it is
35:11
pride month and then I do think that we're going to get
35:13
something good really soon. I just feel it.
35:16
I don't know. So tell me what you guys think
35:18
in the comments. There's a lot of different
35:20
theories here floating around and I don't know, just a lot
35:24
going on. I'm really hoping that we hear
35:26
from her on the 13th of June. I feel like that's when she
35:29
would announce that something's happening.
35:32
All right, that's it for me this week.
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Have an amazing start to your pride month.
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Be gay, do some crimes, do whatever the hell you want to
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do. It's your month.
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It's the best month of the year. Cherish it.
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And I love you guys so much. I'll see you soon.