#gq article 2020

[daltony]

[taminoarticles]

— Tamino for British GQ Style, Issue 30 / Spring/Summer 2020 (x)

The Romanticist

Merging Arabic sounds with western sensibilities, and high-fashion kudos with thrift-store panache, Belgian singer Tamino is a pop star for our times

Photography Casper Kofi Styling Ben Schofield Text Owen Myers 12 July 2020

If there was a ranking of the pop and rock world’s most eccentric backstage rituals, Tamino’s live performance prep would be up there with the greats. Yup ranking alongside Keith Richards’ requisite pre- show shepherd’s pie, Leonard Cohen’s reverent Latin prayer and the tendency of Madonna, at the peak of her Ashtanga yoga years, to arch her back and let her yoni feel the breeze. Before he walks onstage, Tamino pays specific attention to one standout feature in a body full of them. Well, two, really – the big, bushy eyebrows which hover above his eyes like sentient exotic caterpillars. ‘I brush them!’ he says with a laugh. ‘Before a show I tend to do that, with a brush my friend bought for me.’ Like a toothbrush? ‘Yeah!’

On a grey December day, the artist born Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad is sitting in the corner of a central London hotel bar which doubles as architectural selfie-bait. A vaguely east Asian interior garden has been constructed, with latticed trellis on the walls, dangling dreamcatchers and glass boxes filled with tufts of moss which bulge like an aerial view of a cartoon forest. The synthetic environment feels an odd match for the deeply felt, hypnotic music that the Belgian-Egyptian Tamino makes, a merging of Arabic music traditions and western baroque pop and indie which his quavering falsetto can elevate into moments of transcendence. At its majestic peak, Tamino’s singing voice flits between semitones seemingly effortlessly, taking cues from the classic vocal ornamentalists of the Middle East. Yet it also can recall the raw emotive heights of Jeff Buckley.

In Antwerp, where Tamino lives with his girlfriend of three years, his music is a cornerstone of pop radio. He was nominated for five awards at the country’s MIA Awards (the Belgian Grammys) for his rhapsodic debut album, Amir, which was released in 2018 and featured contributions from the Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood. But whether he’s headlining a stadium in his home country or playing to a couple of hundred fans in Manchester, as he did earlier this week, Tamino’s fans are uniformly devoted. He’s got used to hearing their stories of loss, mourning and survival, a communion inspired by the imagistic poetry that his music creates out of life’s extreme joys and sorrows. ‘Maybe because I’m sharing a lot during the concert, they feel like they can share a lot when they speak to me,’ he says.

At a sold-out show at London’s Scala last night, one thoughtful fan presented Tamino with a play of the dialogues between Hades and Persephone, a reference to Tamino’s aching ballad Persephone. The song, an abstracted retelling of the Greek god of the underworld’s union with his abducted bride over a minimal guitar line and sumptuous strings, evokes the knotty intricacies of a modern destructive relationship. ‘You’ve come to love/What you always will fear,’ Tamino intones in moody low vocals, before flipping into falsetto runs that soar above textural vocal layers. A couple of weeks after releasing the song and video in August 2018, Tamino received a DM from another artist fluent in infusing her music with mythos: Lana Del Rey. ‘Your voice is beautiful,’ she wrote. ‘Also, my sister has a photo book called Persephone.’

‘I couldn’t believe it,’ Tamino says flatly. ‘I had to double check ten times. Is this her?’ Del Rey invited Tamino to support her at a special show at Dublin’s beautiful Malahide Castle last June, where he performed at golden hour as the sun cast a glow over an audience of 20,000. ‘She’s very down to earth and grounded,’ Tamino says. ‘She was friendly and warm to everyone in the backstage area. She was too kind, really.’ Tamino was barely out of nappies when he first sung into a microphone. At age three, he travelled with his family to Cairo to visit his grandfather, the famous Egyptian singer and actor Muharram Fouad. ‘It was just for fun!’ Tamino says of his debut on the mic. ‘But it was at his studio, so it was really interesting.’ Fouad died when Tamino was just five years old, but as a young music fan with an omnivorous appetite for sounds, he got to know his late relative through his many cassette recordings, listening to Fouad’s music alongside Nirvana, Tom Waits and The Beatles.

Tamino is a student of Middle Eastern music, and enthusiastically launches into a potted history of the golden age of Arab song, which produced stars like the singer and multi- instrumentalist Abdel Halim Hafez, and Umm Kulthum, who was known as ‘The Voice of Egypt’. ‘Umm Kulthum’s songs would be, like, an hour,’ Tamino says. ‘She would sing two or three songs, and that would be a full concert. [My grandfather Fouad] has beautiful music, but he was making a more popularised version of that, with songs of six minutes.’ Fouad’svocal modulations snuck into his grandson’s own singing style in a kind of cross- generational musical osmosis – the Arabic quarter- notes which Tamino sings today add subtle complexity to his more pop-leaning songs, and foreground the Middle Eastern themes of a song like his devotional ballad Habibi. When recording his debut album, Amir, Tamino recreated the Firka – the Arabic orchestra from the golden age – with the Brussels-based instrumental ensemble Nagham Zikrayat, an orchestra made up of Arabic refugees. Like a traditional Firka, the ensemble follows the pattern of Tamino’s voice to intuit what they will play, rather than rigidly sticking to the printed score in front of them.

The richness of Middle Eastern and Sufi musical traditions has been key to the development of western music. Jeff Buckley once said the devotional Islamic music of Pakistani legend Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan saved his life, and the music of the Armenian- American heavy metal band System Of A Down features Middle Eastern vocal lines and ouds, the 11-stringed Arabic instruments (Armenia is not in the Middle East, but shares many musical traditions with the region). The Lebanese-American surf-rock pioneer Dick Dale’s use of Middle Eastern music scales went on to inspire The Beach Boys. Dale’s propulsive reinterpretation of the Arabic folk song Misirlou, played with an electric guitar instead of the oud, gave rise to one of western cinema’s most iconic coalitions of music and sound when Quentin Tarantino used it in the opening of Pulp Fiction. Other Western artists have been less scrupulous. In the late Nineties, the canonical hip-hop producer Timbaland often relied on uncredited samples of popular Middle Eastern sounds to create his genre-expanding, futurist hip-hop and R&B. The opening strings on Aaliyah’s mega- hit More Than A Woman sample Alouli Ansa , a classic by the Syrian diva Mayada El Hennawy, and Timbaland’s iconic beat for Jay-Z, Big Pimpin’, lifted a beautiful melody by Abdel Halim Hafez. As the writer Hassan Ghanny notes in a Medium article, ‘It was the Middle East which underpinned all of these songs, and the labour of Levantine and Arab musicians of years past which helped line Timbaland’s pockets.’

Given Tamino’s ownership of his musical lineage against a background of Western erasure – he also often plays his grandfather’s Resonator guitar onstage – the singer has become a symbol of proud Arabic identity. ‘It is a blessing, because it’s not what I set out to be,’ he says. ‘I love Arabic music and I’m proud of my roots, so naturally they found their way into my music.’ Last year he played concerts in Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey, and he’s aiming to play in Lebanon this year; he tells me that I ‘have to’ visit Beirut, one of his favourite cities.

Even so, the western media’s focus on his identity has given Tamino pause. ‘I wonder whether it’s a good or a bad thing,’ he says, suddenly pensive. ‘Maybe it’s not that good if it becomes the only focus. It can be used in a different way, which is kind of as the antidote to all the bad news we’re hearing of [Arab] regions. And then using that as, “Look, this is some good news!” I don’t want that to be the only reason why I’m invited on certain platforms. I don’t want people to go, “I don’t really like his music, but it’s important’” – he grimaces – “it’s important to show it.’” There’s something patronising about the idea that he would be used as to fulfil a diversity quota. ‘It’s true,’ he says emphatically. ‘Absolutely.’

As he sits in the bar, sipping bottled water as blissy house music plays, Tamino’s hair falls in perfectly unkempt Timothée Chalamet waves. He wears a plain black T-shirt with high-waisted dark grey Ann Demeulemeester trousers, which seem to be made from some kind of treated wool. I ask to touch the fabric, and they may be the softest trousers I have ever felt: the Platonic ideal of sunday-afternoon dressing. ‘It’s really good fabric,’ he says. ‘I love the flowyness.’

Tamino’s relationship with Ann Demeulemeester started back in 2017, when he was starting to get booked for European festivals on the back of his enchanting early singles Habibi and Cigar .Tamino’s thrift-store togs had worked fine for his early performances on BBC Radio 1 and for talent contests in Belgium (he won radio station Studio Brussel’s 2017 talent competition), but he decided that they wouldn’t cut it on bigger stages. ‘I didn’t want to have the stress of like, “Ahhh, I don’t have anything to wear for this important concert,’” he says. ‘That’s when we approached them.’

A six-foot 19-year old with a jawline that could slice butter? Demeulemeester promptly kitted Tamino out in their autumn/winter line. Helping grease the wheels was the fact that Tamino’smum is friends with a few of the female designers at the label – and they’ve known the singer since he was a child. ‘The head designer, Sébastien [Meunier] is really good,’ Tamino says. ‘I think what they’re doing is so cool. Ann has left the company but I think they’re continuing her legacy in such a beautiful way.’

What does he like about Demeulemeester’s clothes? He pauses for a moment, furrowing those hedge-like eyebrows. ‘I can only say that when I wear the clothes I feel fully like myself,’ he says. ‘I find it really important just to go about my day really feeling at ease, and definitely when I’m on stage. I’ve felt it before when I’ve gone on stage and I wasn’t really feeling what I was wearing. I didn’t like it.’

The wider fashion world has been quick to follow. Tamino starred in the Missoni menswear SS19 campaign (Gisele was his womenswear counterpart) and spent his 21st birthday shooting in New York with photographer Harley Weir. ‘I don’t have ambitions in [modelling],’ he says. ‘But the things that have happened naturally in the fashion world, I do appreciate them. I love to go to fashion shows. I go to Ann, and Yohji Yamamoto as well. That’s also one of my favourites. It’s crazy – you’re wearing art.’

Yet Tamino’s most memorable look came from wearing hardly anything at all. In the video for his 2018 single Tummy, he appears as a nearly nude pharaoh swarmed by followers, wearing a chest plate and liquid eye make-up styled like the Eye of Horus, the Ancient Egyptian symbol of royalty and protection. Oh, and he’s covered in gold body paint which took 90 minutes to apply to every crease and crevice of his skin. He looks like a cross between Rameses II, a living-statue busker, and a Quality Street wrapper. ‘I find it a very funny image,’ he says. ‘When you talk about Egypt, it’s logical that people [think of] ancient images – the Pyramids, the pharaohs. Of course, that’s not what Egypt is today.’ The aim of the video was, in part, to poke fun at lazy stereotypes of Egyptian culture.

Amidst Tummy’s figurative lyrics of bugs, angels and ‘flying in the sky like cupid’, the song is also unapologetically about sex, which is appropriate given that, in the video, his bare flesh is smothered by anonymous hands in a kind of orgiastic ecstasy. ‘It’s referring to the return to the animalistic when you’re involved in a sexual act,’ he says, with a shy smile creeping onto his face. Sounds fun! ‘Yeah, it is,’ he says, before laughing. ‘You lose all your pride, all your dignity in a way, because you’re not really controlling human consciousness.’

Yet beyond bodily pleasures, the song taps into feelings of inadequacy that might be relatable for any listener who’s felt undeserving of their partner or like an imposter at work. ‘It’s like you must [...]/ Have a lust/For making something of me,’ he sings as orchestration swells. ‘Sometimes you feel like you’re not worth certain gifts you’ve been given,’ he says. ‘And that could be anything, you know?’ It’s a startlingly humble pronouncement from a star on the rise, an admission of self-doubt that is bred out of most musicians in media training and cautioned against by coddling publicists. How often does that feeling rear its head? ‘It’s not ever gone and it’s not always present,’ he says.

Tamino’s struggles are expressed even more plainly in the ominous ballad Indigo Night , where rippling strings evoke the turmoil of a mind that won’t quieten. In a music video inspired by the mind-bending surrealism of Egypt’s 1940s Art et Liberté movement, he sings with desperation: ‘Why can’t I sing along with some feeling, or some meaning?/It feels like I’ve always been blind.’ He wrote the song in a period of personal upheaval, when he moved from the quiet city of Antwerp to the relative bustle of Amsterdam, at the age of 17, to study at Amsterdam Royal Conservatory, one of Europe’s most prestigious musical colleges.

‘For me it’s a song about awakening,’ he says. ‘I had moved, and for me it was a big, big step. I was not at ease and feeling a bit apathetic. A bit indifferent to everything that was happening.’ He’s since learned coping mechanisms for low points. Meditation is helping him feel more at ease in his skin; he starts each day by listening to Waking Up , the mindfulness app from the neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris. And he often returns to his favourite book, the Lebanese- American philosopher Kahlil Gibran’s collection of prose-poems, The Prophet. ‘There’s one [passage] that’s been really important to me,’ he says. ‘It’s like that you show your love of life through work: “work is visible love”. I think that’s really beautiful.’

Before setting off on a US tour this spring, Tamino has a couple of months of downtime in Antwerp. He recently bought a house in a multicultural area of the city, where he lives with his girlfriend, and he’s continuing to study Arabic, with the help of the Duolingo app. ‘Every time I do something that brings me closer to this culture, I feel good,’ he says. ‘It feels like a reconnection.’ He’s also working on new music as well as continuing to learn the oud, which he’s been studying with the help of a Syrian teacher in Antwerp. ‘It’s actually the ancestor of the guitar,’ he notes of the oud. ‘It’s beautiful.’ It can feel today like international relationships between cultures are especially fractious, when politicians across the world run on campaigns to strengthen borders and put up walls. The cross-cultural conversation embedded in Tamino’s music may not solve the problems of an increasingly divided world, but it might offer a roadmap of how music can inspire honest and respectful cultural exchange. But that’s for Tamino’s audience and critics to decide. His own goals are rather more humble. ‘Fame is not an ambition of mine,’ he says. ‘But just to be able to do this, and play in venues all over the world, and meet people...’ he trails off, smiling. ‘I think it won’t get better than that.’

[rainbowsky]

Perspectives on a debate

I see a lot of people still steeped in the debate about GQ.

There are a lot of claims being spread around about GQ, including:

They are huge GG antis

They posted hateful slander about GG

They were one of the primary agents of 227 and GG's cancellation

They boycotted GG

They keep bringing up 227 to hurt GG

Here are the primary pieces of 'evidence' of these claims:

Two articles published by GQ, one in 2020 shortly after 227, and one a year later. Both consist of interviews with a media/culture scholar who specializes in danmei and fan culture, discussing the phenomenon of 227 and some other related sociocultural topics.

I urge every fan to read these articles and draw your own conclusions about whether they constitute 'anti-GG slander'.

Initial article

Follow-up a year later

Once you've done so you can read on if you're curious to hear my thoughts on the issue. (Please don't read my thoughts until you've read the articles and formed your own perspective.)

My thoughts

These articles are overall pretty rational, intellectual and inquisitive. The conversation primarily revolves around fandom and fan culture, and GG isn't even the central focus. Particularly the second article, which only mentions him briefly at the beginning.

Instead, the articles cover a broad range of entertainment business and cultural topics, and ponder the factors that played into 227.

They are not critical of GG, so much as they are critical of his fans, which is why his fans are so angry about the articles. It's not 'slander against GG', it's a critique of fandom and fan behavior.

I suspect this is why XFX have been so vocal about spreading the rumor of a GQ vendetta against GG. Because saying, "GQ has been critiquing XFX" wouldn't garner nearly as much sympathy or outrage.

Most people don't actually bother digging into or examining these claims. Instead, they take it all at face value and assume the claims to have at least some merit, and buy into the narrative that GQ is out to get GG. They in turn spread the word about GQ's supposed vendetta against GG, thereby doing free XFX legwork.

The reality is that 227 was a very big deal at the time. A massive cultural phenomenon. Of course those interested in culture would reasonably want to discuss and examine it. It's been discussed all over the world, not just in China.

It's not unreasonable for a magazine to do this type of examination. We can agree or disagree with some of the opinions presented in the article, but they're not anything unusual for that region of the world. However, in my view, characterizing them as anti-GG slander is just a bridge too far.

[russellius]

HIGHS and LOWS

sources below the cut:

George Russell - Britain’s next F1 champion? (podcast with Natalie Pinkham) // Orion by Frank Ocean // Sun King by The Beatles // --- // Toto after the 2020 Sakhir GP // --- // Toto after George’s first pole // --- // --- // --- //  Grace Willows, To Kiss a King // --- // GQ: F1's Mr Consistent is focusing on all the positives // same GQ article // Thinking, 1938, Oil on Canvas by Hans Frohne // same GQ article // Ovid // High Performance Podcast // --- // The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913 // Gone Ridin’ by Chris Isaak // Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name //  IG post after Imola 2021 // --- // IG post after Imola 2020 // William Shakespeare, Henry VIII // High Performance Podcast x2 // No Stop Signs by Myllo // about The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel // Dante Alighieri // Square Mile: F1 driver George Russell: "I'm ready to fight." // --- // --- // Fade by The Driver Era // Crofty on the broadcast :) // Vince Lombardi // --- // --- // Heaven by The Neighbourhood // Square Mile article again // Shakespeare, King John // Friedrich von Schiller, The Artists // --- // Felipe Massa after the Sprint race in Brazil //  The Times: The Formula One driver and his father, Steve, on failed driving tests and sleeping in horseboxes // ---

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Why does GQ mention a wedding in the online version but no mention of her name or the wedding in the print version? Sorry for bringing this up but I just don’t understand why things are being handled like this.

Simple. Magazines like GQ which have worldwide editions which have to be shipped to both subscribers and stores are printed almost a month in advance of when they hit the actual newsstands or subscriber mailbox. So, the actual print edition of any article has to be "put to bed" or finalized a month before it comes out. That means the print edition of the article will see no editorial changes after that point. [So, if we're going with September 9th as the date the supposed MA wedding took place, then the physical GQ magazine was already being printed at that time.]

However, digital editions of the same articles can be "live" for much longer, and can be re-edited even after posting. So, that's why you see the blurb about the wedding in the on-line article only; because they were able to call and confirm it with his PR team, which would have final approval over any changes to that article. Make no mistake - the fact that it was in the online article does mean it was seen and approved for publication by Megan.

Just for comparison: the Esquire 2020 online interview article was re-edited to delete more info even after it was first posted and screenshot around the fandom. It was interesting to compare what was taken out, which had to do with geography and lifestyle. And if you really, really want to have some fun, go look through Mike Sagar's tweets from 2020 around the time that interview was released. He makes a lot of interesting comments about how difficult it was to work with Chris' PR team, as they kept cutting and chopping up the article and forcing changes, and had to have final say on any change in any form of the article.

[standupcomedyhistorian]

Good morning!

I know it's been a long time since I've posted (I've finally settled in to my new home with my boyfriend Jeff), but I had to write about my new favorite comedy thing right now:

EVERYBODY'S IN L.A.!

There have been two live episodes so far (Coyotes and Palm Trees), but the chaotic and absurd nature of the program has been an absolute BLAST to watch, and I am totally digging John Mulaney's new look lol.

If you're a fan of improv comedy or just want to see some of your favorite comics sitting in a 1970s living room set getting snacks from a roving robot (Saymo scared the SHIT out of Jon Stewart last night on multiple occasions lol), then I urge you to watch.

The episodes are live at 10pm ET, and there are four topics left:

Helicopters

Ghosts

Earthquakes

LA

And so many fun guest stars will be showing up, including my boys Gil and George! (Oh...HELLO)

Have you been watching? What do you think of John's talk show format? Doesn't it sound similar to what he proposed about interviewing experts in that ill-fated 2020 GQ article?

But I always wanted to do a talk show where the guest is always someone from a job that I don't understand. I'd love to interview a dog catcher and be like, "What is that like? How do you feel about yourself? I'm not judging, but I am a little. How do you feel rounding up dogs and taking them to the pound?" I had two ideas for a talk show once. And by ideas, I mean I thought about them in the privacy of my own room. One would be just interviewing people who do anything that interests me. And I don't mean like on the ground and I'm watching them do their job. It would be like a talk show set and they'd come out and there'd be a band and so forth.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the rest of the episodes, and keep it here for more comedy fun! ✌🏼🐔

[foxes-that-run]

2017 Haylor Timeline

Timeline Tag, or years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

3 January - Taylor "based in London" (end of Cornelia St period)

5 January - date of Harry’s leak “lately” recorded. Anniversary of clear blue water/rain on window posts which may be their last break up anniversary. He was pictured in London

8 January - Taylor and Zayn film I don't wanna live forever music video in London

13 January - Taylor was in LA papped at the the gym in LA. The scenario she told secret session fans she wrote  DWOHT

21 January - Harry goes to LA

22 January Joe in Paris

28 January - Harry in LA

1 February - Harry's Rose Ring maybe at his birthday in Malibu 1 February 2017. Taylor posts a video of her and Gigi singing along to "I Don't wanna live forever" for the first time on the radio, which ‘happens’ to be on Harry's birthday.

4 February - Taylors only performance of 2017 in Houston. Super Saturday Night, rep coded.

14 February - Tom Hiddleston GQ article where he sounds traumatised, it is bad press for Taylor and later indirectly referred to in the Joe dating announcement.

7 - 19 February - Fans spot Taylor in London, once in a brown wig

24 February - Little Big Town perform, say Taylor is on London

March - Stalker arrested for breaking into Taylors NY apartment

5 March - Rose Ring seen clearly at Studio in London.

7 March - Ed Sheeran seen at Taylors NYC Apartment, he said they would collab again and March 2 said she was working on new music. (End Game)

8 March - Harry at Cottons Rhum Shack London

15 March - Harry arriving NYC with head down

23 March - E New story: "Where in the World is Taylor Swift?" that she had not posted candids since Thanksgiving.

Late March. Behind Album performances likely recorded at Abbey Road, they appear in the documentary in May and Harry was holding Ben’s daughter who looks about 3-4 months. Harry’s hair is also shorter than it was 5 March, a similar cut April 21.

4 April- Taylor recording Rep in Nashville 'to avoid paparazzi'‘. Joe in London. Harry shot Sign of the Times in Scotland. Mirror headline "Harry Styles goes all Peter Pan in his gloriously magical new video for Sign Of The Times"

7 April - Sign of the Times released

10, 16 April - Harry in NYC

18 April - Harry’s rolling stone interview where he leaves the table over her name and tips his hat and ex because it’s all for them. Harry possibly shades Matty Healy:

There’s nothing worse than an inauthentic tortured person. ‘They took my allowance away, so I did heroin.’ It’s like – that’s not how it works. I don’t even remember what the question was.”

21 April - Harry on Graham Norton, performs sign of the times and writes Spanish girl that later leaks backstage.

26 April - Harry in Paris for nrj

29 April - Harry is papped wearing the same St Laurent shirt Calvin copied for the Ole music video, on the date Taylor later identified in High Infidelity.

1 May - Taylor filmed LWYMMD Video, Harry London 2 & 7

7 May - harry driving in London using phone behind wheel wearing packers hat with Tess ward

8 May - Harry in Williamsburg

9 May - Harry today show with the pink suit when he performs Stockholm. Xander and Jeff there. Harry dating Tess Ward. left NY

11 May Tess ward posts a photo of Harry’s kitchen with his cap in and is never seen again

12 May - Harry styles debut released, behind the album released just after. Cute Nick Grimshaw interview with 2 ghosts question

15 May - Harry behind the album released, includes parts of performances. Taylor paped in Nashville and flys to London in Charter (not her plane)

16 May - The Sun reports a source that Joe and Taylor dating 'for several months.' "after what happened with Tom Hiddleston", reminding me of the Tom GQ article from February. Having not been seen at all with Taylor previously Joe will now be seen 20 times for the rest of the year. The way this changed from completely unknown to very public (but saying it wasn't??) is .... sure they were totally together before this. Harry went on Carpool Karaoke wearing Haylor ring

17 May - Tess ward wore a shirt Harry wore in an interview

18 May - TMZ pap photos of Taylor in Nashville

19 May - Harry at troubadour ONO. James, Jeff and Xander there carpool karaoke, Harry sang IKYWT in broadcast not you tube. Stevie Nicks comes, Harry emotional on stage in Landslide with Stevie Nicks. The music business people there were impressive, including the then head of the recording academy and Grammy voting member Savan Kotecha, who wrote WMYB, had fell out with 1D and some members but remained close with Harry.

20 May - Harry lists LA house, reported on the 22nd, sold in 2019.

1 June - Joe and Taylor papped together

5 June - Joe mention in blinds and seen having coffee

9 June - Taylor returns her music to Apple Music on the same day Katy Perry releases Witness.

11 June - Joe and Taylor and her plane

18 June - Joe and taylor spend fathers day in London with his dad

15 June - Harry follows Camille on IG, fans abuse her.

17 June - Harry attends Pixie Geldof's wedding in Mallorca, Louis rumoured to be there but no photos of Louis. Daisy Lowe is a bridesmaid.

20 June - HS stepdad passed away :( H Tess BUA

21 June - Mirror: "Taylor Swift "hosted Father's day for boyfriend Joe Alwyn and his parents - who served up a classic Sunday roast"" also referring to Joe as a 'new boyfriend'

24 June - Joe and Taylor at gym together

July - Harry NY in bar with Xander

4 July - Karlie Kloss posts a photo with Kendall in Paris, the internet realises KK is not in the squad. Taylors inflatable slide seen being inflated - but no 4th July party for Taylor. Blind item that Taylor skipped the party because Joe would not do a photo shoot.

13 July - Taylors last post before her socials wiped was to promote Selena's album. Reputation promo planning underway, Joe was announced a month before.

14 July - End Game written. Kendall came to Harry's show.

21 July - Harry and Camille seen together, Nick mentions her and she is in the background of a fan photo.

19 July - Dunkirk released

24 July - Joe and Taylor walking NYC

27 July - Joe and Taylor with umbrellas this time

29 July - Harry in NY

7 August - two ghosts release date

14 August - Taylors sexual assault trail v David Mueller, from his hand allegedly under her skirt in 2013 is settled and Taylor wins damages of $1.

27 August - LAWYMMD video, Karlie not on junior jewels shirt, Kendall tea time reenactment, Katy car crash and she eats a lobster in a cage.

28 August - Taylor deletes instagram

31 August HS releases two ghosts recording from Behind the album performances

3 September - Taylor at Abigail's wedding Martha's vineyard. Ready for it...? released after Saturday football preview.

7 September - Joe and Taylor NYC

9 September - Joe and Taylor in NY at Cornelia St

Sept 2017 – 14 July 2018 - Harry Styles Live on Tour

19 September - Harry points at himself on ‘I’m a fool for you’ in JALBOYH

25 September - Watermelon Sugar written

20 September - Harry LA, Greek Theater, wears same custom Gucci suit as Kiwi Music Video, with roses. Shania Twain comes and posts a photo of them together. Plays 'Still the One' on Kazoo in Grammy Museum interview. Taylor at Cara's London for month

27 September - Harry released Two Ghosts and Girl Crush as a Spotify Single recorded in Metropolis London, and photos of him recording it. Two days before he performed it in Nashville

28 September - Harry wears red in the Radio City music hall, NY plays Story of My Life in full and has an aborted heart kiss.

29 September - Taylor releases Spotify playlist of 70 songs. Anniversary of Harry’s “we don’t need no piece of paper tweet” and Harry’s another man mixtape. Song 7 is Boys, 20 is Liam Gallagher "for what's worth", followed by "miss you". 27 is We don't deserve love, Niall Horan is at 37 "Too much to ask", it also features Ariana Grande, Kesha, Kings of Leon, Bon Iver, 57 is Perfect by Ed Sheeran, the same name as the 1D song. It ends with #70 'She's casual' about a guy falling in love with a fling.

11 October - Taylor in London with Joe's family

14 October - Phoenix - Harry cries during Meet me in the Hallway (1:39). After “I walked the streets all day” before “running with the thieves”. This was Harry's last US show

16 October - Taylor films End Game music video in London

October - Liam said he saw Harry at the Bowery Hotel “I bumped into him in The Bowery Hotel. He’s been through a rough time recently. God bless him, he was really happy to see me. The funniest thing was we didn’t really talk business. Dunkirk was out and all this was happening, and we just gave each other a big hug.”

20 October - Taylor reportedly likes a post "I’m here to drop some tea listen up and listen good!! Any love song Taylor writes now is about Joe and only Joe. She is so happy and this is about them. And only them. This is confirmed. It's a rule. Joe love songs from here on out, this goes for all of Reputation. No speculating if it is about Taylor’s ex from a million years ago because I promise you it’s not. Joe and Taylor. Happy. The tea has been served."

25 October - Harry performs in Paris, he cries on 'even my phone misses your call' twice in FTDT (1:53 and again 3:30). Taylor was in Nashville for Rep Secret Sessions.

2 November - Call it what you want - Taylor posts home movies that are in the CIWYW lyric video.

8 November - kiwi video released with Taylor looking kid

11 November - Taylor in NYC

10 November - Reputation released end game radio single on 14th

13 November - blind item that This Is What You Came For was about Harry

17 November - the HS behind the album performances released, first seen in BTA

28 November - Harry performs VS Show, Taylor cancels. New Years Day released as a single 27 November.

29 November - Derek Blasberg (fashion journalist reportedly the person KK had in TS apartment that ended friendship) posts a photo of KK sipping tea and asks for captions then comments "I knew brew were trouble when I met you"

4 December - Harry Haneda Airport

8 December - Joe and Taylor papped holding hands NYC

10 December - Taylor performs then watches Ed's show with Joe at Jingle Bell Ball London

12 December - Taylor and Joe in NYC

13 December - Reputation Stadium Tour tickets go on sale

31 December - Joe and Taylor NYE (Toe Twitter timeline)

Continue in 2018

[xariarte]

I've decided to share my stash of Canadian NBA player research! This is a LONG masterpost containing articles, videos, interviews, ranging from long reads to fun facts. I've tried my best to avoid paywalls (if there is, there will be an * to indicate).

I'll be updating the list as time goes on, and posting snippets and clips from some of the links (eventually).

P.S. Don't be afraid to ask for recs from me! 💖

the national team core seven

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander long form overview article on him as an OKC Thunder the Ringer on how SGA became one of the best in the NBA Micheal Grange waxes poetry about SGA's Canadian sports legacy SGA for Dazed: Fashion + Basketball Slam Magazine on the rise of SGA's career (2018) the Ringer on how SGA gives the Thunder options (2020) Shai talks about himself and his Mercedes AMG G 63 SGA reviews his Tunnel Fits with GQ Sports Shai is the next Converse Hoops athlete* SGA on the TBU podcast Shai on playing against his cousin, NAW SGA and NAW take over NBA IG

RJ Barrett 17 min read on RJ's Team Canada journey his friendship with Andrew Nembhard here + here + here RJ Barrett and his father, an Canadian Olympic basketball icon RJ's Slam Magazine cover story the Knicks react to RJ's old Team Canada photos Steve Nash explains why his godson RJ is so great

Luguentz Dort an article on Dort's non-profit organization Oren Weisfeld on Lu Dort Velveeta Cheese Twitter account's love for Dort OKC Thunder on Dort's personality (+ Shai and other players) Lu Dort on the TBU podcast Lu's Haitian Pride Benn and Lu Dort's Friendship

Dwight Powell Dwight is Team Canada's Most Important Player Micheal Grange on how tragedy shaped Dwight's life Dwight goes to Egypt (photos included)

Kelly Olynyk how Kelly grew up around the Raptors because his mom was the team's scorekeeper Kelly gives brutally honest reviews of NBA cities' restaurants Oren Weisfeld on Kelly Olynyk's career

Nickeil Alexander-Walker Oren Weisfeld on NAW's long journey to the NBA how NAW carved out his current role on the Timberwolves Nickeil Alexander Walker's fashion + interview Nickeil on playing against his cousin, SGA NAW and SGA take over NBA IG

Dillon Brooks** a brief overview written by Oren Weisfeld via the Guardian a 44 minute video essay on how he became a villain (derogatory) an article from 2018 about his loyalty to Team Canada (complimentary) FIBA on his villain to hero Team Canada arc (complimentary) Brooks is snubbed from All-Rookie Team Brooks and Murray excited for their NBA future Oren Weisfeld on Brooks' defense Michael Grange waxes poetry on Rockets' Dillon Brooks (complimentary) TSN Original: Who is Dillon Brooks? (recent...complimentary) **a controversial player...most of the stuff I've linked here might be complimentary because Canada adores him somehow

various Canadian players

Jamal Murray how Jamal Murray was raised to be a star Jamal's Player Tribune from 2016 Feature Documentary on Jamal Murray via NBA Murray and Brooks excited for their NBA future

Chris Boucher sports illustrated article on his Oregon Ducks journey an eight minute video on how Boucher went from homeless to NBA champ an interview discussing him signing with PUMA + fun facts

Bennedict Mathurin overview of how Benn made his way to the NBA draft Benn's Player Tribune from 2022 Complex Canada interview from All-Star Weekend 2024 Benn and Lu Dort's Friendship* Montreal's Lu Dort, Benn Mathurin + Olivier-Maxence Prosper's NBA Journeys TSN Original: For All of Us (Bennedict Mathurin mini documentary) Canada's Bennedict Mathurin's Road to NCAA Stardom Pacers Impressed by 'Feisty Bulldog' Mathurin the Benn Mathurin you don't see on the court

Andrew Nembhard Nembhard's NBA draft journey Oren Weisfeld on Nembhard's career his friendship with RJ Barrett here + here + here

[beautifulpersonpeach]

This is an opinion piece. Many will not agree with me, so I have laid out some facts. Scooter’s wife divorces him and his biggest clients leave him by the end of 2022. As if the pandemic wasn’t hard enough, hey Scooter? Karma?

2017

-On May 21, 2017, BTS won the Billboard award for Top Social Artist, beating out Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, and Shawn Mendes. Beiber and Grande at that time were both signed to Scooter Braun’s agency. Everyone took notice.

Except Justin that is, lol.

2018

-Here he is in August 26, 2018 answering fans questions about Jungkook and BTS. He had listened to one song - FIRE.

https://youtu.be/aDHRFWrM08g?si=_0ql84of_Z6R1lVw

2020

-Jan 14, 2020 Justin announces he has been diagnosed with Lyme Disease

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/justin-bieber-lyme-disease

-July 23, 2020 Justin announces tour dates - previously delayed because of Covid pandemic

https://www.cp24.com/entertainment-news/justin-bieber-announces-2021-dates-for-rescheduled-tour-1.5036378b

2021

-April 13, 2021 The Redemption of Justin Bieber. Justin has struggled. With addiction, depression, anxiety and the law. He has been isolated from his peers and elevated to celebrity superstar status before reaching adulthood. In the western world that’s a recipe for disaster. Whether you like his music or not, there’s no denying Justin Bieber has talent. The numbers speak for themselves.

https://www.gq.com/story/justin-bieber-cover-profile-may-2021

-May 6, 2021 covid pandemic causes Justin to cancel tours until 2022

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/05/06/justin-bieber-postpones-canadian-summer-tour-dates-until-2022/

-April 2, 2021 Scooter sells Ithaca Holdings to Hybe.

https://www.reuters.com/article/hybe-ma-ithaca-idUSL4N2LV13C

(Interesting that 11 days later that month the redemption of Justin Bieber article in GQ is published)

-And a month later, June 25, 2021, Scooter flies to South Korea to meet his new company, the vast potential of new, polite, trainees, various established groups under the Hybe umbrella and world superstars, the BTS members. I have to sigh here, the author of this article can’t even be bothered to include each member’s name. Just a general Scooter says “they’re great”. Because he couldn’t care less? He had his wonder boy Justin, and potentially a whole new generation of talented people to work with should the need arise in the future. I believe the members of BTS individually or as a group weren’t his priority at the time. I remember that period when fans were asking if a collaboration with Justin Bieber would be possible in the future. BTS handled these questions very delicately.

https://www.koreaboo.com/news/scooter-braun-experience-meeting-bts/

And during the epidemic, all is quiet except for the BTS members who work continuously through this period, appearing virtually on several shows aimed at the western audience.

2022

-March 13, 2022 Hybe’s gross profit from of PTD concert one night show in theaters is a Blockbuster Hit! $32.6 million in revenue earned from 3711 cinemas.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/bts-permission-to-dance-on-stage-seoul-llive-viewing-gross-1235203444/

-June 8, 2022 Justin postpones North American tour dates (Look at the scheduled list of dates)

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/why-justin-bieber-postponing-north-american-tour-dates-singer-says-sickness-getting-worse

-September 4, 2022 BTS’s PTD tour reportedly earns $ 230.7 million in concert revenue

-September 15, 2022 Scooter to pay $20 million in divorce settlement but gets to keep private jet

https://people.com/music/scooter-braun-ordered-pay-ex-wife-20-million-divorce-settlement-keeps-private-jet/

2023

-January 24, 2023 Justin sells his music catelog

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/media/justin-bieber-music-catalog-sale/index.html

-January 25, 2023 Scooter becomes sole CEO of Hybe America

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/scooter-braun-hybe-ceo-bts-1235500913/

- February 9, 2023 Scooter buys Quality control music

https://www.thefader.com/2023/02/09/scooter-braun-quality-control-music-hybe-deal

-February 10, 2023 Hybe buys 14.8% stock in SM entertainment

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/media/south-korea-hybe-sm-entertainment-deal-intl-hnk/index.html

-Feb 23, 2023 Justin cancels remaining tour dates

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/28/justin-bieber-cancels-justice-world-tour/11368719002/

-March 5, 2023 Hybe to raise up to $769 million to purchase shares in SM Entertainment

https://www.kedglobal.com/mergers-acquisitions/newsView/ked202303050002

-March 24, 2023 Hybe sells shares in SM Entertainment

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/hybe-sm-entertainment-k-pop-1235563480/

-March 26, 2023 Records are broken worldwide with Jimin’s album release FACE on March 24, 2023

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbenjamin/2023/03/26/bts-jimin-sells-over-1-million-copies-of-face-solo-album-worldwide-for-record-breaking-24-hours-in-korea/

-August 23, 2023 ABANDON SHIP!! Is everyone leaving Scooter?

https://www.koco.com/article/scooter-brauns-artist-roster-what-we-know/44894780

Everything I have ever read about Scooter, I don’t respect him enough to write his proper name, is that he puts himself first. Previous clients do not speak highly of his management. Taylor Swift for example.

Interesting fact, Taylor Swift, Halsey (Boy with Luv collaboration with BTS) and Camilla Cabello (Shawn Mendes is her ex) gave a great performance of “Shake it off” at the American Music Awards in Nov 2019.

Perhaps when Justin’s health issues became too grave to hide from the public or Justin himself refused to be held to his contract, (and perhaps Justin sold his catalog to cover his costs/penalties of canceling his tour) Scooter had an empty sandbox with no one to play with.

And, having lost his main source of income and having a keen head for business, (vulture capitalist) he had already set his sights on a new revenue stream. Of the seven BTS members, one in particular had released songs by Justin Bieber, proving he had what it took to be successful in the western market.

Jungkook has been a Bieber fan since he debuted with BTS. He ticks all the boxes needed for the western market, doesn’t he? Masculine build, tattoos, piercings, outstanding vocal ability and dance skills/technique and is a member of the greatest musical group in history?

No wonder Scooter went to the White House with BTS. Had to be sure to be there at the Grammys too. Front and center as though he was responsible for their success.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/hybe-is-raising-380m-to-fund-more-music-acquisitions-in-the-us-report/

Confusing isn’t it?

1) Hybe buys Ithaca holdings April 2021

-$ 1 billion + reportedly

2) Justin Bieber Tour is canceled several times, and he pulls out of remaining tour dates February 2023

- $ unknown

3) Scooter buys Quality Control music one month after being named CEO of Hybe America February 2023

-$ 300 million

4) Hybe buys 14.8 % stock in SM entertainment February 2023

-$ 334.5 million

5) Hybe sells stock in SM entertainment for

+ $ 191.8 million March 2023

Well thank goodness for BTS. In 2022, their PTD tour earned:

+ $ 230.7 million concert revenue for PTD Tour

+ $ 32.6 million from PTD theater showing, limited engagement, in 3711 cinemas

Someone had to keep the lights on in that new building and families of the employees fed.

Which brings us back to Jeon Jungkook, Bieber admirer, a man who most definitely fits the “western audience appeal”, possessing talent beyond what we in the west have seen in many years.

And then there’s his equally talented, gifted dancer “Bro” Jimin who broke all the records right before him but does not bow down to those who whisper behind his back, lol.

And by coincidence, their music videos, promotional materials for their solo albums and many of their conversations seem to hinting at something 😉

Oh Scooter, it isn’t fun when someone beats you at your own game, is it?

When in doubt as to what is going on in an organization, follow the $$$.

I firmly believe the budget allowed for BTS’s chapter 2 “solo period” was capped due HYBE’s financial acquisitions at the same time.

In my opinion.

***

Now, @westcoastgal1,

I commend the effort you've put into this ask and I can tell you're trying to build a case for your theory(-ies), but I'm not sure what exactly that theory is.

Is it that "I firmly believe the budget allowed for BTS’s chapter 2 “solo period” was capped due HYBE’s financial acquisitions at the same time." ?

Is it that Scooter is broke and HYBE shifted financial resources from BTS to support him and their SM acquisition? Didn't HYBE tap capital markets precisely to raise proceeds for that purpose though? Or is it that Scooter is looking for a windfall in BTS now that his old roster of artists have abandoned ship?

But then, what is the implication here?

"And then there’s his equally talented, gifted dancer “Bro” Jimin who broke all the records right before him but does not bow down to those who whisper behind his back, lol.

And by coincidence, their music videos, promotional materials for their solo albums and many of their conversations seem to hinting at something 😉"

Is it that Jimin wasn't willing to play Scooter's balls like JK did apparently? But he had no issues accepting the Fast & Furious gig? And if so, what's the takeaway here? How does this tie in to the similarities in their concept pics styling, etc, so far?

You've already put quite some effort into building out this timeline so I hate to ask you to do more work, but I'm afraid the dots aren't quite connecting for me just yet. If you'd like to send me a follow up ask succinctly explaining what you mean, I'd appreciate it. Otherwise, all I can say is this looks like a variation of the same fan theories I've seen people come up with to explain Jimin's solo rollout relative to Jungkook's. The fact there's so much discourse around it indicates something else to me, but I'll let the dead horse be.

[dystini]

Indycar Driver Lore

Indycar Driver Lore Masterlist

Santino Michael Ferrucci

I debated how to start this for far too long. I’ve tried to be more or less impartial in these lore posts but I simply cannot manage to do that here.

Santino Ferrucci is a bad person. When half the Indycar field (or more) has publicly expressed distrust/disdain/dislike for/of a person, it’s hard to argue with. When Conor Daly doesn’t like someone and told them so to their face, there’s a problem with that person. When Josef Newgarden publicly burns someone on Twitter, there’s a problem with that person.

It begins when Santino was in F2. He deliberately made contact with his teammate after a race and was banned for 4 races. He forced that same teammate off the track in another race and was disqualified. He drove his car between paddocks while using his phone. He tried to run a "Make America Great Again" livery. In F2. In Europe. He was fired from his team for “behavioral issues, and non-payment of money required by contract.” Said behavioral issues where racist comments to his teammate. (See several of the videos below for details).

He has remained largely unapologetic for all of this, what little apology he has made has been of the “I’m sorry you’re upset by this.” variety. Now, it’s been five years since this all occurred, and some people might argue that surely he’s grown and matured. Perhaps. He’s not so vocal about his politics now. But he embraces the idea of being a ‘villain’ and has made little effort to make friends within the Indycar paddock, a paddock which is notorious for being very friendly. Add in insulting and picking fights with a man very well liked amongst his fellow drivers, Conor Daly.

Conflicting stories arise of his treatment of fans. I have heard that he’s been very friendly and good about giving autographs. I’ve also heard of multiple people nearly being run down by Santino in his golf cart at races. Both can be true. He’s not a complete idiot and knows that positive fan interactions are good but he is also careless. A large portion of fans do not like him but he does have his supporters. I’ve provided all the information I can for you to make up your own mind.

Conor Daly's epic reaction to Alexander Rossi vs Santino Ferrucci! The unusual story of Santino Ferrucci… What's the deal between Santino Ferrucci and Conor Daly? (I admit to being a Conor stan and I don’t agree with the commentary here but it does lay out the facts) A CAREER OVER?! Thoughts on the Santino Ferrucci Scandal in F2 @santinoferrucci says his battle vs. @conordaly22, @josefnewgarden and others is about home country pride. I Am Not Here for Your Santino Ferrucci Redemption Arc MP 382: A Conversation with Santino Ferrucci Josh Berry Gives The Middle Finger To Santino Ferrucci In NASCAR Xfinity Race At Phoenix Santino calls Conor a wuss on Instagram and the ensuing conversation.

Birthdate: May 31, 1998 Hometown: Woodbury, Connecticut Residence: Dallas, Texas Height/Weight: 5’4”/116lbs

Rookie Year: 2018

Team: A.J. Foyt Enterprises

Follow him on: Instagram Twitter

Career Stats

2018: 4 races with Dale Coyne Racing - 27th Overall 2019: Dale Coyne Racing- 13th Overall 2020: Dale Coyne Racing w/ Vasser-Sullivan - 13th Overall 2021: 5 races with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing - 24th Overall 2022: 1 race each: Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Juncos Hollinger Racing - 28th Overall 2023: A.J. Foyt Enterprises - 19th Overall

FIA Formula 2 Championship 2017: Trident - 22nd Overall 2018: 14 races with Trident - 19th Overall ( Banned for 4 races, disqualified from a race and then fired)

NASCAR Xfinity Series 2021: 7 races Sam Hunt Racing - 37th Overall 2022: 2 races with Sam Hunt Racing - 60th Overall

-At just 11 years old, Ferrucci was featured in an article for GQ magazine as a karting prodigy. -After his karting career, he raced in GP3 Series (now FIA Formula 3) and FIA Formula 2 and became the youngest winner of a British Formula 3 race, at age 16. -Ferrucci enjoys golf, gaming and movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe off the track. -Nicknamed Santucci, amongst many more derogatory names.

Fanfic Lore

Villain, on the rare occasion he is used.

[zhansww]

gg & dd — photoshoots in 2022

2019 — 2020 — 2021 — 2023

January

XZ for ELLE

photos: teaser, cover, one, two, three

videos: one, two

transl. article

September

WYB for 时尚COSMO

covers, photos

videos: teaser, one, two, three, four,

October

WYB for 智族GQ

cover

photos: one, two, three, four, five, six

video

[bcofl0ve]

I read an old interview with Austin for GQ and it says about shifting the filming of Elvis because covid. Initially, filming was scheduled for March 2020 (the deadline from the article), the breakup of Vanessa and Austin became known around January. So Vanessa and Austin broke up over the phone because he was in Australia at the time? Sorry, I haven't been in the fandom for a long time and I don't really know the timeline of all dramas lol

this whole timeline is why a tiny slither of me is pro vanessa writing a book, solely because i want it all hammered out in my head. they were not broken up in november, but he went to australia at the very end of nov 2019 for the gq awards. i always kinda assumed he went back home even if briefly before he *moved* moved and that's when they broke up but like...did he actually? bc if he didn't they prob def broke up over the phone.

[silvyysthings]

Do you believe Timothee did really interview russel? The interview is very boring, calibrated and clearly written by publicists.

I have deja vu from GQ 2020 and "really-loved" article...

I know nothing Oliver...honestly I only read part of it due to time issues, I don't know but i mean why shouldn't it be authentic? obviously it is part of the advertising promotion of the film and Timmy has already done it for Stevie Wonder too or Zendaya so why not? maybe it's something he loves to do as he said and he loves to make interviews? Or maybe if the questions are standard you might be right Anon, I don't know🤷‍♀️

[russellius]

hello!!! is there a george russell primer anywhere? i'm new to watching f1 & he's very very interesting to me (aka i would like to study him like a bug 🙏) and you appear to be the best person to ask.

😭 first of all this is so nice of you, thank you!! 💕

i unfortunately have no knowledge of anything like that, my main advice would be: just scroll and scroll, and consume all the content you like :]

however i tried to collect some stuff i think is worth checking out so:

some pods/articles

beyond the grid 2020*

beyond the grid 2022

britain's next f1 champion?

my big break

ready for takeoff

chequered flag

throwing fits

gq1/gq2

f2 live

insta live 2020/and another one

some vids

next generation*

all access

last day at williams

3 years of memories

career recap

best bits

cribs

baby george + fam

baby merc george 1/2/3 + reserve duties

for some streamer george may i suggest

euro trucking

lawnmowers

rocket league

george being competitive and focused for hours on end: spain / canada / monaco / baku / silvo / practice / more practice

GEOOOORGE

my twitch tag for the legendary streaming moments

hall of fame

f2 champ

sakhir ; committed, brave, brilliant

p9 cry my beloved

spa p2

spa lap recap

mugello commentary

first pole

silverstone quali ‘21

hottest thing you’ll see today

these were also pretty hot 

and these too as well

into the variante alta

big brain stuff

vs fernando

(personal faves)

wtf1

pirelli hot lap

rookie of the year

twitch quartet quiz

10/10 george and nicky banter

mr & mr 1/2

george v johnny

gq

dutch inquisition

midterm report

soggy toast

george being smart for 6 minutes and 41 seconds + 6 minutes and 9 seconds

he is off to hogwarts

a true gent

poutine taste test

bowling king

the best friend

poster bants 1/2/3/4

the softest of them all

[crazycoke-addict]

Since Amber Heard has requested an appeal and is also hiring new lawyers to help her out. One of the biggest part that could help her is the open statement hat Johnny Depp and Amber Heard made back in 2016. Especially the aftermath involving around it. First of all, the audio specifically confirms that Johnny Depp was the one who bought the statement up to amber in order avoid a trial. The statement brings up how neither party made false accusations for financial gain while also bringing up speaking about it ever again.

While yes, Amber does mentioned the statement during the debate on whether or not, Depp should play Grindlewald in the fantastic beasts. Depp doesn't sue amber at all during that point in time because of the director and the author's choice of keeping Depp. However after Depp sued The Sun for a description involving being a wife-beater by denying that he is that. It contradicts what the open statement that he brought up to prevent amber from going with the trial. Johnny Depp sued the Sun on June 2018 than in the same year did an interview with GQ magazine where he mentions the domestic violence in the relationship and also mentions Amber by referring her as "she". It's pretty cut and dry on what the conversation is about.

The Op-Ed for the Washington post was published on December 2018 while Depp did that interview on October 2018. In the article, Amber never mentions Depp by name and the article is more focus on how people will abuse their power and the ones who enabled the behaviour. And we see it happening on how people treated amber heard during the trial. Majority will say hat they doing for the justice of victims when really you're participating on mocking someone's rape is a lot damaging and you are the ones who are preventing victims from speaking up.

Your just as bad if not worse by enabling abuser's behaviour. Depp has shown time and time again, that he is not claims to be and the UK trial even proves that back in November 2020. But because Depp and his team make sure that amber takes the blame. Johnny Depp continued the abuse on amber heard by not supposedly playing by the rules while he doesn't do that himself. Because rules don't apply to him. The rules only apply to amber and when she made the op-ed. Depp went out of his way to silence her.

[wellthatwasaletdown]

Camille didn’t stay friends with H cause she has self respect. I wouldn’t be surprised if she does anything to stay in his circle no matter what

I think the reason Camille didn’t really stay friends with Harry is because their relationship wasn’t everything to her. Doesn’t matter if you think Harry’s relationship with Olivia was PR or not she definitely loved the attention that she got from it. She was never someone that the general public paid attention to. She was a fail doctors. Her acting career wasn’t going anywhere, if you think of all the actresses in her age group she wasn’t doing the things that they were doing. think Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, Amanda Seyfried.  those actresses Are the ones that the directors are calling if they are casting for a role in that age group. All of those actresses I just named either has Oscars or have been a part of critically acclaimed films or even Oscar-nominated. Olivia Wilde hasn’t done anything impressive since Tron Legacy. Which is why she made the switch to directing. She had a hit with booksmart and she thought that she was going to get something even bigger with Harry and don’t worry darling and whether or not you think that their relationship was PR she loved this newfound fame. She was in rooms that she was never in before, she was in conversations that she was never into, she was the talk of the town. She was getting magazines and interviews that she never would have gotten if it wasn’t for hairy. She would have never gotten Vogue if it wasn’t for hairy. She loved the 15 minutes of fame. So when the relationship ended she was pissed and she wanted to try to see if they could work it out or wanted to be seen at his concert one last time before the break up article comes out. She gave up her entire life, follow this man around the world, put her children on the back burner, and also her career for a guy who was never going to claim her. This man did not give a fuck about her and I don’t think that he took this relationship seriously. He refused to claim her, she was sent so much hate about everything about herself and her children and he never once stepped into defend her, when it was first and that if they were dating people had questions on if she cheated on Jason and he put out an article from a “source“ calling himself blameless, when GQ article came out confirming that he and Olivia broke up in November 2020 he made her leave Italy and she was seen at the airport the next day, when she was served on stage she didn’t do a thing, when the Shia LaBeouf situation happened before Venice he was it seen with her for weeks leaving her to stand for herself, When the nanny situation happened again left her to fend for herself and at Venice completely made her look like an absolute fool. She wanted to uproot her life to the UK to fit him and his needs and he ended up breaking up with her. I don’t think she ever took this relationship seriously and when things started to get messy in her life he saw her as a liability because it was now starting to affect him and his reputation and he dropped her. I don’t think they were going to last much longer but with all of the stuff that has happened I think he thought it was easier to cut her loose again he never took her seriously or the relationship with her seriously. The fact that he looked miserable half of the time should have showed that to people. But again not only was she upset with him she was obsessed with the idea Associated with him. She was using her stylus, being invited to events, wearing Gucci, getting to make connections and all of that backfired on her face. Harry was the thing that made her relevant and if you take Carrie out of the equation she’s not relevant anymore. By next month we won’t even be talking about her or the relationship anymore. And I think that’s what she scared of. She scared of fading back into obscurity. She will forever be a C list actress who couldn’t make it much into Hollywood who then had to turn to directing and will be known for making a flop movie and focussing more on her relationship with her lead actor than making the set and movie the best it could be that’s her legacy 

.