Content Consumed: Taylor Swift, the ‘Barbie’ soundtrack, DeSantis, and Rosie Viva

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Content Consumed

5 min readMay 25, 2023

Hey! Happy Thursday. It’s been an insane and wonderful week. A lot of shit’s happening and I’m so excited. Anyways, in today’s Content Consumed…

🚩 Taylor Swift’s insane PR strategies
💖 The Barbie soundtrack could be the album of the summer
🔕 Elon Musk, Ron DeSantis, and Twitter Spaces
🎥 Rosie Viva’s bipolar disorder mini-doc

Taylor Swift hit a new low

I could rant about this for days. But I don’t think I could say anything that hasn’t already been said. Here are the facts that you should know:

— Taylor Swift is dating Matt Healy.

— Matt Healy is a racist piece of shit. Example: he’s a fan of a disgusting type of porn called Ghetto Gaggers. Do not look it up.

— Taylor Swift is getting shit from her fans—and everyone—for dating Matt Healy.

— Taylor Swift announced yesterday that she’s doing a remix of one of her songs with Ice Spice.

— This is the first time Taylor Swift has ever collaborated with a black woman in her 17-year career.

— Matt Healy, in the same conversation where he brought up Ghetto Gaggers on a podcast famous for being extremely offensive, insulted Ice Spice with comments about her race and appearance.

— He barely apologized for that.

I don’t think more needs to be said: Taylor Swift is performative on a pathological level. I wonder what her next move is. If she’s smart, it’s breaking up with Matt Healy as soon as possible.

The ‘Barbie’ soundtrack might be the album of the summer

Dua Lipa, Tame Impala, Haim, Charlie XCX, Ice Spice, Lizzo, Nicki Minaj, Pink Pantheress, Khalid, Ava Max, Dominic Fike, Gayle, Fifty Fifty, Kali, Karol G, and the Kid Laroi—that’s a packed album.

Also, Ryan Gosling?! Is credited as part of the album? Desperate to hear his vocals. I’m guessing it’ll be some sort of musical number… but it’s funny that he’s on there and Margot Robbie isn’t.

Dua Lipa’s song, “Dance the Night” will be the first released. We’ll get to hear it at midnight EST tonight.

See the new trailer that dropped today here! (I think the first trailer was better… only because it feels like this second one might be spoiling too much.)

It’s gonna be a miserable 2024 election

Ron DeSantis tried to announce his presidential candidacy in a Twitter Space with Elon Musk yesterday. It’s crazy how poorly it went… I mean it’s almost like firing half of Twitter’s workforce and exponentially fucking up the entire platform and using a feature that barely worked in the first place wasn’t a good idea?!

More than 20 minutes after the conversation was scheduled to begin, DeSantis wasn’t even able to speak as the live audio room repeatedly crashed and featured echoing audio.

Elon said it was because of Twitter’s servers being overloaded by the number of listeners in the room. Which is… an optimistic viewpoint. Right-wing commentator and Spaces moderator David Sacks claimed it was the “largest group that had ever met online”, which is categorically false—more folks showed up just to watch AOC play the video game Among Us during the pandemic.

That pretty much sums up how this was viewed: a success by the right (except Trump, of course, who is also running in 2024… God, we’re toast) and a failure by lefties.

Please note: I did not consume this content, but I consumed the chatter about the content. I refuse to give Ron DeSantis or Elon Musk an extra person in their stupid Twitter Space.

Rosie Viva’s mini-doc on her bipolar disorder

The only reason I knew who Rosie Viva was: her lifelong friendship with Dua Lipa. But now, I can appreciate who she is as an individual.

Rosie is a model who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after being put in a psych ward in 2018 after she set off the fire alarms and forced an evacuation at a London airport. A week ago, she released a self-made mini-documentary with Channel 4 on YouTube, giving insight into her diagnosis and her life now.

It’s casual: a lot of front-facing cell phone footage and personal touches. But that happens to be perfect, the absolute right tone for the project. It feels more real than an actual, over-produced “mental health documentary” that dominates media these days.

I appreciated all of the personal details that Rosie exposed. She did a great job (in my opinion, I do not have bipolar disorder so I can’t actually say how accurately she represented things) at exposing how her disorder affects dating, friendships, her career, energy levels, drinking—really, everything.

It was eye-opening and fascinating and I recommend it. Just twenty minutes. Watch it while you eat lunch tomorrow.