"Machine Gun Kelly's Swift Surrender: Rapper Refuses to Bash Taylor, Fears Swiftie Wrath!"

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Calaugashock Media. Hi, and Welcome
to Taylor Swift Today. A short roundup

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of all the headlines around Taylor's music, tours, movies and life. Taylor

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Swift and Travis Kelcey have deepened their
bond during all the time they've spent together.

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Recently, a source tells US Weekly
exclusively, it makes the prospect of

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her tour more challenging. She'll be
sad, the insider says, referring to

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Swift's Eiras tour, which kicks off
its European leg in a couple of weeks.

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They both understand that work is a
priority, per the source. They

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support and respect each other. The
source ads they have busy careers, so

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they understand those commitments as difficult as
it is. One major plus was Kelsey

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being by Swift's side to celebrate the
release of the Tortured Poets Department album,

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which officially dropped on Friday, April
nineteenth. The same source tells us that

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the couple took a trip up the
California coast in order to celebrate privately.

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The insider adds they're making the most
of the time they have together. The

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couple was spotted with Gigi Hadid and
Bradley Cooper on a joint vacation in Carmel

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by the Sea, California. Travis's
mom, Donna Kelce, confirmed the trip

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upon seeing Cooper at QVC's Age of
Possibility Summit in Las Vegas earlier this week.

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Kelsey has spent a lot of the
NFL off season in Los Angeles,

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filming new game show Are You Smarter
Than a Celebrity? And spending time with

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Swift. He was last on the
football field when Casey won the Super Bowl

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in February. The following month,
he accompanied Swift to her Eiras tour dates

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in Singapore before they returned to the
West Coast. A source previously told us

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that Swift and Kelsey were in their
nesting era during their time off. They're

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focused on rest and recuperation and relaxing
at home and having low key and chill

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time together. The insider shared in
March they are enjoying movie nights in her

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home theater, catching up on films
and shows they've missed. Speaking of date

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nights, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
are settling an age old debate. Is

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it socially acceptable to sit on the
same side of the booth as your date

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answer Yes, it's Tavis approved.
While grabbing dinner in Los Angeles, the

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couple was captured dining side by side
in a booth, and fans took note,

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why are they the same booth couple? One user wrote on x love

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how they still make time for date
night even with their busy schedules, also

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sitting on the same side of the
booth. Another wrote together on a sofa

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seat. Oh I love to see
it. A third person added in other

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news, Machine Gun Kelly is not
looking to go against the huge Swifty fan

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base anytime soon, refusing to bash
singer Taylor Swift. The singer squared off

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against fellow rapper Trippy Red twenty four
on a new episode of Hot Ones Versus.

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The conceit of the show is that
each contestant has both a stack of

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deeply personal questions and a play of
wings, and if they refuse to answer,

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they must eat a death wing.
MGK was asked about his offer last

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year to Swift's boyfriend Travis Kelce,
stating he would personally give him an extra

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one million dollars if he left his
Kansas City Chiefs to play for the rapper's

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beloved Cleveland Browns. He then was
asked to burn that bridge by saying three

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mean things about Taylor Swift, so
MGK refused to do so, despite saying

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that he was answering every question.
After eating a few spicy wings. Ladies

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and gentlemen, you have got to
be out of your mother effing mind if

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you think I want any smoke with
that fan base, MGK admitted. Also,

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Taylor is a saint and very nice
to me, and Travis is my

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bro. While Trippy Red joked kiss
her feet while you're at it. Jesus

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Christ, I just bro. She's
just very nice. She's very very nice,

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he said, while clarifying his offer
to her boyfriend Travis Kelcey and also

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to the narrative of people who are
like that's it. I said, I

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would give him on one million dollars
spending money on top of what the NFL.

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I'm not to the fing NFL,
so obviously they would have to pay

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him like thirty or forty million or
whatever the f I said, I would

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give him a bonus of one million, and I'm just gonna eat a chicken

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wing. Shortly after eating the obligatory
chicken wing for refusing to say mean things

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about Taylor Swift, He asked for
a waste basket and threw up. Just

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two months earlier, MGK was hanging
with Swift and his ex fiance Megan Fox

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at the Super Bowl, which Kelsey's
Chiefs won. Earlier in the interview,

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Mgk was asked to rank five of
his ex fiance Megan Fox's movies, putting

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her two thousand and nine cult classic
Jennifer's Body up top. I would rate

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that as a goat movie, he
said of Jennifer's Body, adding that Fox

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killed that role in the horror comedy
opposite Amanda Seafried. President Biden's reelection campaign

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invoked megastar Taylor Swift to knock former
President Trump on Friday, saying he had

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a tortured week. The campaign used
lyrics from her new album The Tortured Poet's

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Department to set a split screen between
the president's and Trump's week. Another tortured

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week for the smallest man who ever
lived, Donald Trump, the campaign said.

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While President Biden spent the week taking
his message to Florida, the Taylor

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Swift references stop here, folks voters
on the six week abortion ban unleashed by

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Trump, receiving a key endorsement from
building trades Unions and putting out more ads

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in battleground states. The campaign added, on the other hand, a tired

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and diminished Trump created a chaotic mess
for himself and his campaign. It outlined

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that Trump went golfing Wednesday on his
day off from court, lost more than

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one hundred and fifty zero zero votes
in Pennsylvania to former GOP candidate Nicki Haley,

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and said the courtroom in New York
was too cold. It is an

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indictment on Trump that he won't campaign, can't message, and his driving voters

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away. His campaign advisors are distracted, His campaign is losing time, and

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it is burning money on everything actually
reaching voters. Keep it up. Donald

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Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer said in
a statement. The unabashed use of Swift's

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lyrics follows the speculation over an endorsement
for Biden from the singer and unfounded conspiracy

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theories that swirled around the Super Bowl
about a joint effort with boyfriend Travis.

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The New York Times reported in January
that Biden's campaign was actively seeking an endorsement

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from Swift and Biden. In February, equipped he can neither confirm nor deny

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whether there's a conspiracy between the two. More in a moment on Taylor Swift's

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new album, The Tortured Poet's Department, one of her songs, titled thank

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You Amy, seemed to address an
old feud with Skim's founder Kim Kardashian.

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Even the title alludes to their long
standing conflict, with capitalized letters spelling out

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Kim. Clearly, Swift has been
thinking about her former friend for some time,

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but a so urse tells US Weekly
that this will be her last word

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on the matter. Taylor has moved
on and is not looking back. They

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said, the song is her final
word. The insider added that the aristour

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star has not heard from Kardashian about
the song, which contains lyrics about a

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bully named Amy who threatens to push
me down the stairs, and wrote headlines

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in the local paper laughing at each
baby step I'd take. Finally, Taylor

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J. Swift has successfully learned how
to embrace his pop star esque name.

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In a conversation with Business Insider,
Swift, who serves as a Director of

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Government Capacity at Popvox Foundation, opened
up about how sharing a name with the

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music superstar was at first tough to
handle, but has since become something easier

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to handle. As someone who works
in the congressional advocacy space, where I

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help advocate for things like better wages, pay benefits, and technology, it

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helps to have a name like mine
because people usually remember it, he told

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the outlet. When people remember my
name, they also remember the ball.

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I'm trying to push forward, and
that's what's important, Swift continued. According

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to Swift, he first learned of
the singer he shares a name with when

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he was fifteen years old. At
first, I thought, no big deal.

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She's a singer with a hit song
or two. This won't impact me.

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But I was wrong. As time
continued, I started to find it

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frustrating, he told Business Insider.
I was just a kid trying to live

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my life, and I was now
sharing a name with a big singer.

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Additionally, I had just moved back
to Ohio to live with my dad,

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so I was the new kid at
school with the name Taylor Swift. Swift

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added to top it off, I
had a Justin Bieber haircut, I had

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glasses, and I was on the
debate team. It wasn't a fun time.

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After contemplating whether he should continue to
go by Taylor or TJ, an

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abbreviation of his first and middle name. Swift said he eventually realized I was

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given this name for a reason,
and I'm going to grow and become who

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I meant to become with it.
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