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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56769853.amp

I thought this was interesting fact I heard the other day

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Slick. Entertaining.

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I’m too much of a blues/jazz kat, to have listened to either, in a world filled with such plangency! But-damn…what an interesting and insightful piece Into the “Ye”, trou de cul world! Good on Taylor, I respect her words read here. One hell of an entertaining 5-8, per usual,namaste,thanks for all you do!!

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Thanks, Patrick!

For a short glimpse of TS at her best, there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM

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On the Five8, Howie King's "My Spy" background music makes Chunk's amazing work that much better!

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As she sings in “Karma:” “Ask me why so many fade but I’m still here.”

Kanye West has a song named "Fade." Haha.

It's definitely about him.

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My 15 year old daughter idolizes Taylor Swift the way only a teenager can. We stayed up for "Midnight" to drop (only 11pm in Chicago!). She played the first song for me and I thought it was really good - really GOOD! I prefer to listen to music on the radio so I'll hear the rest of the songs as time goes on. As for Kanye, I actually feel really sorry for him - he consistently makes a fool of himself. A mentally ill person with lots of money is a very dangerous thing. He will eventually implode unless he has an epiphany. I never thought I would listen to anything Joe Walsh or Liz Cheney had to say but now I occasionally pay attention to them.

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Not a topic I would normally care about, but this was good. And so is Taylor Swift!

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Is she related to Vicente Hernandez?

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I didn’t know much about this subject, but I do now. I read the People Magazine article you shared. So, Kanye is more of a POS that I originally thought and that goes for Kim Kardashian.

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Billie, Ella and Bessie would likely be proud of her and the bounce!

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Your comments on world stuff are always entertaining. 🎼❤️🎶I was a Beatles and Leonard Cohen fan and then in the 80’s stopped noticing the current song culture. I forgot to have children so no younger generation is in the immediate vicinity obsessively playing any new tunes. I am now the target audience for Noel Coward 78 RPM records and Danny Kaye novelty tunes . We are a small but fierce group. My current bumper sticker reads - Don’t get even - get odd.

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