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It’s been a full of life week (pun totally meant) for Taylor Swift, so enable us to offer you a quick rundown of the most recent developments earlier than we dive into what all of it means:
Issues started on a dour be aware, as Taylor watched the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs lose a pivotal recreation (the workforce’s playoff hopes are quickly fading) from her luxurious field at GEHA Stadium at Arrowhead.
However hopefully, Taylor’s not letting Travis Kelce’s struggles on the sector get her down an excessive amount of throughout her birthday week.
Sure, Taylor will flip 36 on Saturday, and insiders say she’s already in celebration mode.
Based on TMZ, the pop icon stepped out with longtime buddy and fellow musician Este Haim in New York Metropolis on Tuesday evening.
The outlet factors out that on the identical day that Taylor and Este wined and dined within the Meatpacking District, Blake Vigorous was only a few miles away, internet hosting an occasion for her Blake Brown haircare model.
And but, Blake was nowhere to be seen throughout the first evening of Taylor’s birthday week celebration.
Many are taking this as an indication that the Taylor vs. Blake rivalry is alive and nicely. After all, it might need simply been a case of conflicting schedules.
Both means, it’s not the most important Taylor-related controversy of the week.
On Tuesday, Rolling Stone ran a weird editorial alleging that the backlash ensuing from Tay’s Lifetime of a Showgirl album was the results of a “coordinated social media assault.”
The publication then blamed Swifties for being unknowingly complicit within the “assault” by reacting to rage bait.
“What Swift’s defenders didn’t understand, nevertheless, was that they have been pushing again towards a false narrative that had been seeded and amplified by a small community of inauthentic social accounts,” the journal wrote, including:
“Worse, they have been serving to to disseminate these bad-faith allegations by earnestly partaking with them.”
The outlet went on to guarantee readers that allegations of Taylor being a Nazi (ed. be aware: No severe particular person ever thought Taylor Swift was a Nazi.) have been completely fabricated.
“This cluster of evidently coordinated accounts pushed probably the most inflammatory Swift content material, together with conspiracy theories about her supposed Nazi allusions, callouts for her theoretical MAGA ties, and posts that framed her relationship with fiancé Travis Kelce as inherently conservative or ‘trad,’ with all of this framed as leftist critique,” the journal alleged.
Apparently, it doesn’t rely as taking the bait and spreading misinformation when Rolling Stone does it.
Anyway, the article is bizarre for lots of causes, not the least of which is that it tries to attraction to Swifties by primarily calling them a bunch of easily-duped dummies.
The alleged Blake diss, the bizarre Rolling Stone Nazi editorial, the Chiefs on-field struggles — none of those are main points in and of themselves.
However 2025 has not been Taylor’s strongest 12 months, public image-wise.
So if her fiance’s workforce misses the playoffs totally across the identical time that Taylor launched an album that acquired mixed-to-negative opinions (even from followers), nicely, this one would possibly enter the books as an off 12 months for Taylor.
It’s bizarre to say that probably the most well-known pop star on the planet could be in want of a comeback in 2026, however Taylor has set a reasonably excessive bar for herself.
