Underrated that the “everybody here wanted something more” in Welcome To New York was a millennial not contemplating the possibility of a native New Yorker
She seems to be the best subject to try “in the style of” variations on, they come out good I’m guessing cause there are enough pictures of Taylor Swift out there the AI picked up a very good sense of how to depict her (in particular poses, outfits, angles, lighting, etc.)
One of the interesting things is seeing which Taylor Swift hairstyles it associates with each art style
Surprise-dropping some more adventurous and experimental stuff, peacing out of sight, and then releasing a new album that everyone already knew (and thus a usual promo tour contending to be The Main Event in entertainment woulda been weird) was probably the best way Taylor Swift could’ve handled the pandemic, honestly
She seems to be the best subject to try “in the style of” variations on, they come out good I’m guessing cause there are enough pictures of Taylor Swift out there the AI picked up a very good sense of how to depict her (in particular poses, outfits, angles, lighting, etc.)
How long ‘til Taylor Swift makes a Stevie Nicks biopic that’s really about the whole Laurel Canyon scene and do you think she’ll star or just produce and cameo?
“Welcome to New York” was about establishing a parallel between the experience of celebrity Taylor Swift and a random new 20-something civilian arrival to the city in a way that was honestly mostly an artifact of her ‘90s childhood and is absolutely absurd now
They do a really good job assembling the material into a kinda coherent plot, with the “Victoria” character.
And the way they vision the Jellicles as like, a theater troupe of street kids putting on a show is brilliant.
As is the way they kind of make the setting the early 80s of the show’s debut by making it pre-WWII London.
Skimbleshanks!
Taylor Swift manages to make being a slinky naughty catgirl astoundingly sexless.
She is not used well in this at all, but she (& Judi Dench & Ian McKellen) really seems to be enjoying herself.
They really do right by Mr. Mistoffeles.
They do Memory well. You have to do it, and make a big thing of it, but there’s so many directions you could go overboard.
Really feels like they got to the end and realized they didn’t give Judi Dench a song and were like “What do we still have? ‘The Ad-dressing of Cats’?”
The key is Taylor is clearly living out the relationship to the material she had as a kid, before she discovered sex
Pretty sure Taylor Swift was still a virgin when she wrote Speak Now (the song, at least), because in all that “you wish it was me, you wish it was me (don’t you)” line there’s awareness she’s being a bad girl and that’s part of her appeal, but not that she’s offering to replace the lovely bride-to-be as the girl the guy fucks
