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Ben Gilbert: uncertainty

23 Jan 2022 Acquired Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

“I don't know if she exactly said we never talked, but she kind of implied like there was no agreement.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
23 Jan 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…A lot of popular opinion turned against Taylor and that's got to be hurtful too. That's got to be really hurtful. Totally. Popular opinion kind of fairly turned against her. I don't know if she exactly said we never talked, but she kind of implied like there was no agreement. What the Snapchat showed is like, you definitely had a conversation, you were very thoughtful about how this is going to come across when this gets released. You may not have heard that one lyric, but you totally talked. So then Taylor sort of has to change her positioning to the public after she's getting lambasted and people are turning on her and saying like, well, I didn't hear that line and that's what I meant, and it's not a great look. No, it's not.…

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