Bitter Billie Bashes Taylor in Vicious Vinyl Feud!

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episode or show notes Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi, and welcome to Taylor Swift

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Today. A short round up of
all the headlines around Taylor's music, tours,

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movies and life. Taylor is completely
unfazed by Billie Eilish's apparent repeated attempts

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to tear her down, according to
insiders, who claim she is too busy

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selling out stadiums worldwide to engage with
her jealousy. The two pop superstars seem

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to have been locked in a viscous
campaign in recent weeks, as they continue

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to battle for the top spot on
the Billboard Album chart following their respective new

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album releases. Despite publicly praising one
another in the past, Swifties Feel Billy

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has been subtly bashing Tailor. In
a series of interviews, she called three

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hour concert psychotic. Taylor's shows are
three and a half hours and slammed the

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wasteful practice of releasing numerous vinyl versions
of albums. Taylor has dropped multiple editions

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of The Tortured Poets department, but
an insider close to the Bad Blood singer

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exclusively told dailymail dot Com that she
isn't giving her jealous contemporary any attention and

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wishes she would instead focus on empowering
fellow female artists. Taylor is unbothered by

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Billy's continued subtle jabs because she is
too busy selling out stadiums and traveling the

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world. They said, it is
clear to her that Billy may have something

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against her, and that it could
stem from jealousy. Billy is new to

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the game compared to Taylor. First, Billy appeared to target her for releasing

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her music in various forms and use
the whole environmentalist argument. Then she appeared

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to accuse Taylor of releasing tortured poets
in three different versions to stay on top

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of the charts, and now she
is commenting about three hour shows being psychotic.

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The insider added Billy should really focus
on her own album and promoting that

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instead of trying to tear down another
female artist. She claims to be so

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about female empowerment, but does not
walk the walk. It comes days after

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a separate insider claimed Taylor is weaponizing
her fans to hate on Billy industry insiders

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aren't blind to the fact that Taylor
is weaponizing her fans and that Billy appears

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to be the latest victim in that
campaign, a source told dailymail dot Com

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last week. Whenever Taylor feels jealous
of a peer's success, she does all

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she can to make sure her fans
start vicious online campaigns to bring that person

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down without ever telling them to stop, and all while operating under the guise

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of being America's sweetheart. The duo
have been battling for the top of the

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charts over the past month and a
half, with Billy said to be the

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focus of increased attacks by Taylor's fans
online. Taylor's The Tortured Poet's Department has

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stayed at number one on Billboard's album
ranking since its release on April nineteenth.

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However, some critics have suggested that
she has only maintained the position by periodically

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releasing variants and extended editions. In
total, she has now put out more

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than thirty four variants of TTPD.
Taylor dropped two of these special editions the

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same day as Billy released her new
album, Hit Me Hard and Soft on

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May seventeenth, which was perceived by
many as an attempt to quash the competition.

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The move even prompted Billy's manager,
Danny Rukusen to reshare and then later

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delete, a tweet accusing Taylor of
breaking her neck doing everything to prevent other

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artists from shining. The tweet implied
Taylor had similarly timed releases in the past

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to hinder artists such as Katy Perry
and Caza. In March, Billy sparked

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speculation she was shading Taylor after she
criticized her music industry peers over their wasteful

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practice of releasing numerous vinyl versions of
albums to increase sales. During an interview

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with Billboard about her sustainability efforts,
she remarked, some of the biggest artists

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in the world making effing forty different
vinyl packages that have a different, unique

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thing just to get you to keep
buying more. Taylor currently has eleven different

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vinyl albums for sale on her site. While Billy never named Taylor or any

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particular artist, fans interpreted her comments
as a jab at the Love Story songstress,

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as she has released numerous vinyl versions
of her albums. For some reason,

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it's very important to some artists to
make all sorts of different vinyl and

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packaging, she told Billboard, which
ups the sales and ups the numbers and

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gets the more money and gets them
more. I can't even express to you

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how wasteful it is, she continued. I find it really frustrating as somebody

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who really goes out of my way
to be sustainable and do the best that

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I can and try to involve everybody
in my team in being sustainable. And

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then it's some of the biggest artists
in the world making effing forty different vinyl

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packages that have a different, unique
thing just to get you to keep buying

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more Sorry Swifties. Despite Internet rumors, Taylor will not be dazzling the screen

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in Deadpool and Wolverine. The news
comes as Imax debuted a new poster for

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the Marvel extravaganza on Monday that featured
the two title heroes holding hands wearing friendship

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bracelets, like the ones that have
become synonymous with Taylor's massive worldwide eras tour.

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Though Taylor is not in her MCU
era for months, fans have speculated

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that she could be in the film, with some musing she might portray the

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comic book character Dazzler. Rumors went
into overdrive last October when Deadpool and Wolverine

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themselves, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman
were seen attending one of the Kansas City

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Chiefs NFL games. They were seen
with the film's director Sean Levy, as

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well as Taylor, who was in
attendance to root for her boyfriend Chiefs tight

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end Travis. Reynolds and his wife
Blake Lively have of course been friends with

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Taylor for many years. Levy and
the singer go way back as well.

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He even starred in her self director
did All Too Well music video, so

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their presence at the game should not
have come as a surprise, but fans

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speculated anyways. In the months since, Levi and Reynolds have played coy,

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opting to neither confirm nor deny their
friend's involvement or lack thereof. In interviews,

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Leev told e W in April,
I regret that I was not quicker

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to shut it down the first time. So I'm going to default to my

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very true situation, which is,
as much as we love each other,

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the fear of death is so intense
in me regarding Ryan and how he desperately

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wants to avoid talking about all of
these proliferating rumors. In an interview in

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May with Fandango, Reynolds said that
straight up dishonesty isn't in the cards when

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addressing the rumors movies like this,
there's so much speculation about so many people

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that might end up in the film. I saw one that was convinced Elvis

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was in the movie, Reynolds teased, anything can happen, and that's sort

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of what I love about this universe. Surprise are the essence of Deadpool.

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As for who is in the film, though Reynolds and Jackman share the screen

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together as the titular Deadpool and Wolverine
for the first time since two thousand nine

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X Men origins Wolverine. Returning characters
from the past two Deadpool installments are Vanessa,

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Marina bakerin Blind Al Leslie Uggams,
Negasonic, Teenage Warhead, Rihanna hildebrand

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Yukio Scioli, Kotsuna Colossus, Stephen
Kopichik, Peter sugar Bear, Rob Delaney,

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Dopinder, Karen Sony, and shatterstar
Lewis tan But even without Taylor,

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there are plenty of surprises being preserved
for theaters. Deadpool and Wolverine is set

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to open this July twenty sixth.
Former President Trump reportedly said Taylor is unusually

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beautiful, before questioning if her liberal
views are simply an act. Trump sat

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down with Variety co editor in chief
Ram and Setuda for a series of interviews

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for the upcoming book Look Apprentice in
Wonderland, how Donald Trump and Mark Burnett

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took America through the Looking Glass,
which hits stores June eighteenth. Variety published

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an expert Monday that included the presumptive
GOP nominees' thoughts on Taylor. I think

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she's beautiful, very beautiful. I
find her very beautiful. I think she's

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liberal. She probably doesn't like Trump. I hear she's very talented, Trump

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said, According to Setuti, I
think she's very beautiful, actually unusually beautiful,

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he continued, before reportedly asking if
the music superstar was a true liberal.

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Taylor famously supported the Biden Harris campaign
in twenty twenty, after accusing Trump

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of stoking the fires of white supremacy
and racism your entire presidency. However,

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Trump questioned if the Fortnight singer is
truly a liberal, She's legitimately liberal.

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It's not an act. It surprises
me that a country star can be successful

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being liberal, Trump said. According
to Setuta, Trump also said he doesn't

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know her music for tiarticularly well,
and Setuta said the former president appeared unaware

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she's pivoted from country to pop in
recent years. Taylor has reigned supreme in

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pop culture over the past year,
with her wildly popular Heiress tour and romantic

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involvement with Travis keeping her firmly in
the spotlight. Earlier this year, The

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New York Times reported that President Biden's
aides were hoping to lock down the endorsement

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of their wildest dreams in Taylor.
Fundraising appeals from Miss Swift could be worth

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millions of dollars for mister Biden.
The Times report read as the President seeks

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to pump energy into his reelection bid. Kiss frontman Jene Simmons shared his thoughts

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on Taylor, and he didn't hold
back on his opinion of her powerful influence.

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Simmons proclaimed himself as SWIFTYE during a
chat at his Rock and Bruce restaurant,

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praising the Lavender Hayes singer and even
hinting she is one of the few

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current musical artists he is aware of. These days. While speaking on the

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new generation of talent making their mark
in the industry, the legend Mary rock

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Star told page six, there's no
question Taylor has taken over, and she's

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great. I'm a fan, I
know her, and she's a really solid

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person, he raved, while admitting
other than that, I'm not sure what's

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cool but Taylor Aside the musical icon
noted that in his opinion, compared to

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artists of previous decades, today's artists
don't really strike up as much excitement,

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at least for him anyway. When
we were growing up in the sixties,

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we had Led Zeppelin, the Rolling
Stones, the Beatles, Elvis, Pink

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Floyd Madonna, Motown and all of
that. Prince David Bowie, all of

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that was happening at the same time, the seventy four year old recalled,

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as he further posed the question what's
happening now? But when it comes to

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being an inspiration for young people of
today, the rock Star is proud to

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serve as an artist deemed worthy of
being imitated. When Jojo Siwa rocked a

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bold look straight out of his style
book, he defended the dance Mom's a

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lump against critics, telling never be
ordinary, Always be extraordinary. Jojo is

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extraordinary and she looks cool. Steve
Carell is a swifty extraordinary. The actor

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comedian revealed this week he met the
global superstar early on in both of their

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careers, when they both appeared on
MTV's TRL. We were both on TRL

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at the same time, Carrell said, during Monday's appearance on The Tonight Show

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starring Jimmy Fallon. I met her
sort of in passing, and I thought

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she seems special, Like even back
then, Carrell continued, very sweet,

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very nice, just had a really
nice first impression. Years later, the

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Office star continued, he saw a
video of Taylor playing the guitar for a

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hospital patient, some kid who was
recovering from something. Carell said, there

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was no big crew. It was
like a really low key handheld thing that

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she sort of just did on the
sly. He added that he thought that's

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so cool and not publicized, just
leading with her heart. From then on,

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he concluded, I thought, Okay, I am going to root for

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that person. Correll joins a long
list of celebrities to have lauded Taylor in

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recent weeks. Most recently, the
singer's longtime friend Lana del Rey chimed in

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with her thoughts as to why Taylor
is such a phenomenon. She wants it,

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The Born to Die singer told BBC
News, She's told me so many

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times that she wants it more than
anyone, and how amazing she's getting exactly

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what she wants. She's driven,
and I think it's really paid off more

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in a moment. Travis is staying
hush about his time in the kitchen with

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Taylor. During a press conference on
Tuesday, the Kansas City Chiefs player dodged

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a question about cooking with his girlfriend. There's a YouTube short of you cooking

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with your significant other, and I
just kind of want to know what you

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like cooking together, asked a reporter. That's a good question. Travis said,

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I respect that question, but I'm
going to keep that one to myself

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because I thoroughly enjoy cooking with her, so it's something i'd rather just keep

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personal. He moved on to the
next question, but made one last comment

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on the topic before exiting. Taylor
makes a great pop tart and cinnamon roll,

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the football player added with a cheeky
smile. A video of his answers

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was shared by a fan page who
referred to his final comments as a mic

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drop moment. Fans in the comments
praise Travis for his witty response, writing

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I find this very endearing and this
is who Taylor deserves. Another fan asked

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Taylor to release a cookbook so they
could bake her yummy recipes. In April,

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Taylor shared a video on YouTube shots
of Travis kissing her while she stirred

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a pot in a kitchen, along
with other snapshots into her life, including

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one that showed her spreading whipped frosting
on a batch of cinnamon rolls. She

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wrote on the video for a Fortnight, in reference to the single from her

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latest album, The Tortured Poets Department. Since Travis and Taylor went public with

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their romance in October twenty twenty three, the singer has baked for some of

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Travis's teammates, kind of behind the
scenes. She to fit in. She

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didn't even know she was doing this. I don't think she likes to cook,

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so she made the offensive Lineman.
These homemade pop tarts recalled Kansas City

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Chiefs coach Andy Reid during an interview
at the NFL Scouting Combine in February.

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Earlier this month, Travis spoke with
ABC's Good Morning America about staying grounded amid

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his highly publicized relationship and new career
ventures. When you have good family and

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friends around you, it makes that
aspect in life that much easier, Travis

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said, I've always been a very
grounded guy. He added it might not

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come off like that when I'm playing
football, but off the field, I

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just want to be a genuine person. I try not to get too far

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down the road because you just never
know when opportunities are going to present themselves.

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