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Talk about ruining a song forever: http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/taylor-swift-drew-hardwick-child-abuse.html

25 will probably go diamond faster than any other album in history. Just awesome. And it looks like the "Hello" video may wind up being the fastest ever to get to a billion views very, very soon--it's already at over 840 million views.

I am thrilled! I would have been so pissed if half the album was a single except for a fan favorite like OOTW. I hope it's a hit. With Adele taking over the world right now, that may not be easy.

I wonder if she's going to do a music video with scenes from her tour, like she's done the last three tours, or if the documentary on Apple Music is it for that (I wonder why she didn't have a Red Tour movie? Fearless and Speak Now had them.). ETA: I don't mean a music video with concert scenes for OFTW--I know she shot the video for that song in New Zealand. I'm just wondering if she'll set another song of hers to scenes from her concerts.

RIP.

On a positive note, I think this was the last time Melinda was portrayed as being at all mentally sane (and SG's Melinda may have been the only one, in fact, not to have a mental breakdown of any kind).

Continue doing your thing, girl! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adeles-25-officially-scores-record-845937

Tony Bennett ASKED her to record an album with him, just as he asked Amy Winehouse before that. And being from an Italian family herself, I can totally see why she said yes and went with it, regardless of what else is going on with her career. I personally don't care how successful she really is now commercially. What matters is the talent, and she has that. She could do jazz standards for the rest of her life now and probably be happy. She doesn't need a huge hit anymore; she's done all that stuff already. And that Oscar performance was the best.

Jimmy's face when she starts singing 11 seconds in...

20 years ago today. "I see you! Oh Robin, I see you." Sniff. :'(

Jessica finds out she's pregnant, 1998. Jessica should have never been a pregnant teenager, but Erin played these scenes very well.

JFP apparently had Harding Lemay on board as a story consultant during that year without an HW (1999). I'd be curious as to what he actually did.

And how cliche for Paul Rauch to bring on black characters in a rap story. From the looks of it, of course it didn't take off b/c it wasn't believable. How could the audience believe Kerry to be a rapper when he came from an upper-middle class background. Especially when rap was derived from the streets. Especially when gangsta rap was taking over. If Rauch was gonna sell it, he should've made Kerry lower class. (Sorry Carl for quoting you too--stupid quote boxes!) I have more of a soft spot for Rauch than I probably should, but yeah, he did this on GL too with the Brodreaux (sp?) family--not the rap part, but almost as if he sensed people thought his show was too white, so he would go, "HERE ARE SOME NEW BLACK PEOPLE!" right before being let go. Both times. It looks like that, anyway.

As far as I know, she never mentioned them from 2002-2004. I began watching in October of 2001, so maybe she mentioned them before then, but I doubt it. Julia was sent to prison for DuAnn's murder. The old OLTL History Pages website said she shared a goodbye with Max, which makes me think she said goodbye to Al/they probably talked about Gabrielle. This would have been, I think, in 1992. I believe the audience knew all along that Gabby was lying about Max being Asa's son. The OLTL book by Gary Warner in 1998 says she had a DNA test done after learning Patricia Holden (Max's mother) had slept with Asa. I'm pretty sure Gabby implied in her first scenes back in 2001 with Max that he was a dumbass pretending to be Asa's son after she had pulled that trick first. I'll have to watch them again. In any case, I think Gary Tomlin DID acknowledge that. I do give him props for looking into the show's history. He was pretty good at that. I'm still baffled that JFP was allowed to be de facto HW for almost a year before ABC finally stepped in and said, "No bitch, we need a REAL writer for this job." Even with OLTL's status as the red headed stepchild/the support ABC gave JFP over the years, that seems like one HELL of an oversight.

I don't know if you knew this, Toups, but apparently SML(TYNL) was partially inspired by Adele and Ryan Tedder going to lunch and hearing Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble." He told her Max Martin produced it, and she went back to a song she had written at 13 (after being inspired by listening to Amy Winehouse) and just fleshed it out. Knowing that now, I can definitely hear some of the influence of IKYWT in the song.

Million Years Ago is about, from what I could tell, the loss of innocence as you grow up and looking back on who you were as a child. That alone stood out for me. I could see it being a single, but maybe not right away.

I finally got the deluxe version yesterday and listening to it right now. AMAZING. Somewhere in a high rise Tribeca apartment, Taylor Swift is creating an Adele voodoo doll.

20 years of this opening and theme today.

Every other female pop star on Earth after hearing that song: And especially this one in particular:

Quick question, Toups: When we were talking about Taylor's future recently and you said that you could see her starting her own record label, I wanted to ask you: Do you see taking over Big Machine someday from Scott Borchetta?

30 years ago today... "My name is Robin."

I'm curious--do you see her going back to country at some point? Not in the near future, but later on in her career? And you haven't told us about the shows you went to, yet! You said you went to two of them, right?

Raquel Welch likes Wildest Dreams. Today's her 75th birthday, BTW. Oh, and I've never had a problem with the musical guests; that makes sense. But I do think the Style part, at least by now, has become somewhat random. YMMV, of course. It made sense originally, since there's a runway, but after awhile I was just like, "We get it, Taylor, you have famous people who will come to your shows! Just keep performing!" There's a huge fan of Taylor's who posts at Jezebel all the time named Adultosaur. I think you two would get along great.

Yeah, I jumped the gun on here. I was a little suspicious as I was posting it here, actually--as I always am whenever I start feel a bit over Taylor, which unlike most of you here I'm starting too :lol:--but I did it, and now I regret it. I'm sorry, I was wrong. I still think Joseph Kahn saying he isn't racist because of the "super hot" black woman is tone-deaf and stupid, though. No regrets on thinking that. I am still jealous of her looks, though. I'm blonde and blue-eyed, too, but with bigger eyes, more curves, and bigger boobs. And short legs (and I'm not as thin). Throw in the fact that we're the same age, and yeah, you can see why sometimes I feel like an ogre in comparison . I hate the stereotype about women being jealous of other women, but we do sometimes struggle with competing with each other. And I'm normally the only girl here on this thread, so...You know, having one day of looking like a model would be nice, just saying. But yeah, I'm really torn about her. I have things I like and don't like about her. *shrug* It's not just about being jealous about her looks--the Twitter thing with Nicki Minaj was VERY tone-deaf of her, and her guests on stage just seem like a huge friend collection thing, now, in a negative sense, and terms "girl squad" and squad goals" need to DIAF as soon as possible--but I do think I get carried away sometimes because I feel less pretty than her. And that's wrong. I have some honest criticism about her a lot, but I need to check myself sometimes. But that "Please welcome to the stage" parody video is funny. I stand by that. Sorry. I honestly wonder if she's going on a long break from performing once this tour is over. I remember reading somewhere before that she has one more album left for Big Machine under her contract, and I wonder if she'll either do that, but do something less commercial--she's certainly at the point in her career where she could do an album that won't necessarily have huge commercial-sounding singles, if she wants to--or if she'll disappear for awhile and have a low profile, maybe even go back to school. She's put out her first album at 16; she might be tired!

Yeah, I didn't originally find it to a be a problem. I could see how it could be interpreted that way, though. But really, my biggest issue was Joseph Kahn saying he isn't racist because the producer or whoever was a "super hot" black woman. Because God forbid she's average looking. SO tone-deaf. Anyway, I'm sorry guys. I DO have things I like about her, but I have been getting tired of her lately. I really do a love-hate thing for her. You might have to kick me out eventually.