CAUSE I'M DREAMING OF YOU TONIGHT TIL TOMORROW I'LL BE HOLDING YOU TIGHT AND THERES NOWHERE IN THE WORLD I'D RATHER BE THAN HERE IN MY ROOM DREAMING ABOUT YOU AND MEEE
“In light of everything that’s happened in the past three months alone, here’s some incredibly valid reasons to be pissed off at Taylor Swift, or simply not like her — as someone who loved her, and loved her music. First and foremost, Taylor Swift is personally burning a hole through the ozone with the amount of CO2 she uses. That’s not even the main point of this video; but this is a graph from 2022 of how much CO2 she produced of her 170 private jet flights, versus the average person. She has spent 70 grand on jet fuel alone. Taylor Swift, alone has used 170 tons of CO2 in the past 3 months. The average person only burns like, 16 tons. That’s not even the main part of this video. The main point of the video is the fact that she has not spoken up about Palestine. And the reason that is so fundamentally frustrating is that Taylor Swift has influence. Quote Brittany Broski, when she also didn’t speak up about Palestine — “if you have a platform, and you have people listening, you have to use it.” It’s criminal to not use it, and Taylor Swift uses it. This is from September 2023. Record-breaking registration numbers from one Instagram post. Literally stating, saying “I’ve been so lucky to see so many of you guys at my US shows recently. I’ve heard you raise your voices, and I know how powerful they are. Make sure you’re ready to use them in our elections this year!” They had a 72(%) increase in 18-year-old registrations. When it comes to Palestine, she’s completely silent. And now that it’s somewhat more socially acceptable to attend Pro-Palestine events, she’s been quietly going with Selena Gomez, but I for one, think that your Instagram is perhaps the best asset you have. If not, money. And I’m sure in a couple months, we’ll learn about how Taylor Swift was quietly setting up foundations for pro-Palestine, and that she was always for the cause and she’s always supported them, but all it takes is one fucking Instagram post. Especially when Israel Palestine is fundamentally a war of narratives. It’s whose story do you believe, despite the mounting evidence that proves that Israel has continuously been doing ethnic cleansing and genocide. They are still maintaining this narrative that they are not doing that. And all Taylor Swift has to do is say “hey, 22 thousand deaths in 3 months? The most in any modern war? This doesn’t seem right.” I don’t even want her to be that leftist or radical, but literally just to ask the question to her largely American audience, when US has bypassed Congress twice to sell millions in arms aid to Israel. Just for her to be like “Should that many kids be dying, perhaps?” The bar is on the floor, but she still refuses to do it. And the reason why Taylor Swift in particular, not because of the influence that she has and not because of the platform that she has, but why her in particular, is because the IDF continues to use her songs. I know it was a public trend, but the fact that so many occupation forces felt comfortable and confident to make like, dance edits to Taylor Swift’s music. I think it’s so important how an artist’s music is used because when the republicans wanted to use Eminem’s 8 mile track, he was like “absolutely fucking not, I do not give you consent to do that, and I do not associate with your politics. Don’t do that.” I feel like she should know that her music is being used as the anthem of the occupation forces as they go and bomb civilians. Her, and other artists like her, like Beyonce, who showed her film in Israel, and they’re all like dancing and singing, and saying “you’re not going to break my soul”, whilst they continue to bomb the shit out of civilians have said nothing. And I hope, as I’ve demonstrated in the video, for the people who are going to be like “What’s Taylor swift going to do? She’s not a politician.” Be serious. Be serious. She has a fucking chokehold on at least a billion people. She could’ve said and done way more than what she’s done, and also the CO2 levels." (from: this tiktok*)
* i tried to transcribe the tiktok since tiktok wasn't showing the captions for me but if i misheard anything please let me know!
"this artist was thrust into the limelight at an age at which they could not have yet developed into a fully realized person, let alone political creature, and therefore their decision-making skills have been forever crippled and mental maturity forever stunted" and "this artist is still old enough to know better and have basic empathy and simple reasoning" are ideas that can and should coexist.
Listen, if a game hands me a trio where one's grey haired, red haired, and yellow haired, THEN make the grey one dramatic, the red one serious, and the yellow one have swords I'm gonna act up
I'm looking and I'm like that theater seat is Jennifer and you've got the popcorn you are moving over and you slip and Selena laughs was that a real slip? -David
Yes that is a real fall and I was going through the thing and I was trying to be laser focused on Justin so I'm like going through the thing and I tripped because I'm a very graceful person and I stayed in it and Selena the laugh that she does is genuine. And I love that moment. -Jennifer
Still ABSOLUTELY TORN UP about the whole Sazz thing, but y'all, it occured to me this week that we get to see what Sazz's life was like. My GOD. I am SO EXCITED. Omitb has a bad (good) habit of making the victims so sad and lonely and while I imagine that may be a thing for Sazz I am HOPING Sazz's life is fucking WILDIN. I HOPE WE GET FLASHBACKS OF HER BEING A BAMF. BABES ALL OVER THE PLACE. HAVING A GOOD TIME GROCERY SHOPPING. PLEASE. HOLY HELL.
Takaaki teaching Taka to dance is something that will lay heavy on my brain. Like...ughh, just Takaaki teaching him to waltz or even dance to salsa (which he's terrible at, but knows the steps and moves. Taka's mom would've definitely been better at teaching Taka, but...yeah.) He's not the best teacher, but Taka was able to learn just by following his father's steps. But they've definitely fucked up so much and started laughing their asses off.
Then Taka proceeds to teach Mondo later on in life. And Mondo definitely has two left feet, motherfucker can't dance for shit. But Taka is patient and tries his best to teach Mondo as his father taught him.