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Taylor Swift Is Reportedly ‘Proud’ of Selena Gomez for Throwing So Much Shade at Justin Bieber


Selena Gomez doesn’t mention Justin Bieber by name in her two new songs, “Look at Her Now” and “Lose You to Love Me,” but many fans believe he’s the inspiration. And if that’s the case, she’s throwing some serious shade his way. Both songs contain pointed, emotional lyrics like, “Of course she was sad / But now she’s glad she dodged a bullet,” and “In two months, you replaced us / Like it was easy.”

It’s the most vulnerable Gomez has ever been in her music—and one person who’s proud of her for this is her good friend Taylor Swift. According to Us Weekly, the Lover singer is proud of Gomez for taking Bieber to task in these songs.

“Taylor Swift is a huge supporter of Selena, and the shade she threw at Justin has made her proud,” an insider tells the outlet.

Take this with a grain of salt, of course. This is a source talking, not Taylor Swift herself. That being said, this is in line with what Swift said on Instagram about Gomez’s new music last week. Specifically about “Lose You to Love Me,” Swift wrote on her IG Stories, “This song is a perfect expression of healing and my absolute favorite song she’s put out yet. A triumph. I love you so much @selenagomez.”

Swift also revealed how proud she is of Gomez in a recent interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music. “I’ve watched so much happen in her life and had a front-row seat to so much, and I’m so proud of her,” Swift said. “She is such a revelation because now she’s making her best stuff.”

In her own separate chat with Lowe, Gomez talked about how Swift helped her get through those hard times. “She was frustrated when I was frustrated; she was sad when I was sad,” Gomez said, according to Elle. “I think [my friends] visibly saw me in so much pain. And they didn’t want it for me, but they never stopped loving me.”



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Selena Gomez Revealed How Taylor Swift Helped Her Get Over Justin Bieber


Selena Gomez is back on the charts with her first new songs in years, “Lose You to Love Me” and “Look at Her Now.” Fans wasted no time combing through the lyrics of the singles for references to Gomez’s breakup from Justin Bieber last year.

And while Gomez hasn’t directly addressed her songs’ ties to her old relationship, she has gotten candid about the period after her breakup—and how her close friend Taylor Swift helped her move on and get back in the studio.

The details about Swift’s role in helping her pal move on from a broken heart emerged when the singer stopped by BBC Radio’s Beats 1 show for an interview with Zane Lowe this week. Lowe asked Swift what she thought of Gomez’s new music, and she couldn’t stop gushing about it. “Lose You to Love Me,” Swift said, is “the best thing [Selena’s] ever done.”

“She’s been through so much,” Swift added. “I’ve watched so much happen in her life and had a front-row seat to so much, and I’m so proud of her. She is such a revelation because now she’s making her best stuff.”

Swift continued: “The things that she’s overcome, the situations she’s risen above, it’s been a long time since we were friends and she’s the best. She’s just the best. I’m really excited because when somebody has had great life experience, has had really tough things they’ve had to go through and they can process that and make art that’s going to help other people, that’s what kind of song this is. I’m stoked.”

Swift added that she can’t speak for Gomez’s experience entirely, but she’s thrilled at how far her friend has come. “Just from my perspective as her friend, I’ve just never been more proud,” she said.

Later that day, it was Gomez’s turn to chat with Lowe. He played her the recording of Swift’s interview on the air, asking her to respond. Needless to say, things got emotional.

Gomez choked up, revealing that Swift has been by her side through every high and low over the past several years. “She was frustrated when I was frustrated; she was sad when I was sad,” she said, per Elle. “I think [my friends] visibly saw me in so much pain. And they didn’t want it for me but they—sorry—they never stopped loving me.”

As it turns out, Swift was also by Gomez’s side in and out of the studio. The “Lover” singer was one of the first ones to hear “Lose You to Love Me,” Gomez explained. “I played her the song, and I played it with her mom and dad, and I showed her the video and her mom and Taylor started crying,” she said. “And it wasn’t because the song was emotional. It was just because the first thing they said to me was, ‘We’re so happy that you’re here. After seeing all of that, this is such a cool moment.’ And that’s a huge thing for me.”

Gomez added that her rollercoaster relationship with Bieber took its toll, but opening up about it to her closest friends made healing possible. “My heart was just so tired, and I think that allowing myself to just say that was important for me,” she said.

The singers met in 2008 while they were dating two of the Jonas Brothers (Joe and Nick), and have remained close friends ever since. In a 2017 interview, Gomez said that becoming friends with Swift was “the best thing we got out of those relationships.”

Over the past week, Gomez has continued to open up about her new music and the pain that inspired it. In an earlier interview with Ryan Seacrest, she admitted that healing after her breakup wasn’t easy, but she’s channeled it into her album that’s four years in the making. “It took me a long time to get through it,” she said. “Now it’s fine. I’m smiling. It’s so great.”





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Lori Taylor Davis, Smashbox Makeup Artist, on Her $9,091 Beauty Routine


These days it’s nearly impossible to know what women are spending on the way they look. Someone with Instagram-flawless contouring might have honed her craft using the finest from the drugstore aisles, and the utterly makeup-free type might be spending thousands on laser treatments and serums. Enter our series What It Costs to Be Me, in which we’re asking interesting women for radical transparency.

Next up? Lori Taylor Davis, global pro lead artist for Smashbox, 52, from Los Angeles. Her grand total? $9,091

If you’ve ever admired that bronzy, sun-kissed California makeup look celebrated by, well, basically everyone, chances are you’ve got Lori Taylor Davis to thank: the global pro artist for Los Angeles-based Smashbox (and a born and raised Angeleno herself), Davis has been creating her signature glowy, natural looks all around the world for over two decades. She’s also a beauty enthusiast to the core and has been since childhood. “My entrée into makeup was through my two grandmothers. They were my personal beauty influencers,” says Davis. “They both had trays of perfumes, Avon lipsticks…they were full-on glamazons. One of my grandmothers would wear incredible lashes and wigs, like a little Diana Ross. My first makeup came from her. Of course, it was makeup designed for someone much older than me and the colors weren’t right, but I would literally go to school in a full beat.” That beauty curiosity and infectious enthusiasm is instantly apparent when Davis runs through her regimen, whether she’s detailing her handmade Ayurvedic hair oil recipe, her latest Smashbox loves, her treatment splurges, or her “seven layer dip” skin-care routine.

My shower routine: $295

My poor husband has no room for his things in the shower. We have five tiers of products in the shower, and I fill up every shelf! For my body, I use a neem oil soap ($5) that’s super-natural and really moisturizing. For shower gel, I go between Dr. Bronner’s Almond Castile Soap ($11) and a body wash from that new brand Nécessaire ($25). It smells so good: like eucalyptus but not overpowering, and also somehow very fresh and citrusy. I love that scent. Sometimes I use a scrub from Mario Badescu ($26) to exfoliate, and I also like to wash with a natural sea sponge ($10) or a scrubby mitt—I always see the ladies at the Korean spa using them, and I can get a bunch for something like $1 each on eBay.

Because I have naturally curly hair I don’t necessarily shampoo that often, but I do always work in some kind of conditioner every time I shower. For natural hair you always want to have the right amount of moisture, and you want to get a good curl pattern after you wash. My friend is into Ayurvedic skin care, so I have a special custom oil blend that I mix up myself and put into all my conditioners (read my recipe for it below). I add it into every conditioner I own, and sometimes I’ll just apply some of the oil mixture directly onto my roots. That’s my one little secret-secret potion—that oil is like my superhero costume for my hair, and it makes my hair a lot healthier. The conditioner I currently use is Bumble Bb Curl conditioner ($34). It’s not too heavy, but it still manages to do a lot for my curls. I shampoo twice a week at the absolute most—for my hair, the conditioner plus my oil potion sort of is the wash, it’s a co-wash. When I do shampoo every so often, I use Living Proof ($27).





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Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn Made a Rare Public Appearance Together at the SNL After-Party


For the past three years or so, Taylor Swift has kept her relationship with boyfriend Joe Alwyn pretty darn private. The two were reportedly first introduced at the Met Gala in 2016 (though that is still unconfirmed) and details about their coupledom have been more rare than those of Swift’s past relationships with celebs like Harry Styles, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tom Hiddleston.

So fans have turned to Swift’s seventh album, Lover, dissecting every lyric, to try to learn more details about the actor. In fact, many think the lyrics on the record are basically a timeline of their love affair.

But even as we’ve gotten to “know” them a bit better as a couple, they rarely attend public events together. Until last night, that is, when Alwyn was on hand to support his girlfriend as she performed two songs on Saturday Night Live. They were also seen entering the show’s famed after-party together, hand-in-hand.

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Swift’s model friends, Gigi Hadid—fresh off her split from Tyler Cameron—and Martha Hunt, were also there to celebrate the singer.

Gigi Hadid at the SNL after party
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Martha Hunt heads to SNL Afterparty
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Watch Taylor Swift Cry Over a Banana After Getting Lasik Eye Surgery


Taylor Swift got quite the hilarious surprise during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night. The singer was there to promote her appearance this weekend on Saturday Night Live (alongside host, Fleabag star and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge), but it seems Fallon and her mom, Andrea, were in cahoots ahead of the show.

Turns out that Swift recently underwent Lasik eye surgery to correct her vision, and she certainly seemed surprised when Fallon asked her if she had the procedure. “I did,” she said. “How did you know that?” As the host goes on to inquire about whether they gave her pain pills or laughing gas, she replies, “They definitely give you some pretty hardcore pills after you have a laser in your eye. What is going on?”

Then Fallon reveals that Swift’s mom filmed her while she was drugged up post-surgery—and sent him the video. And it’s pretty amazing. We get to see the singer (in post-surgical goggles) trying to find a snack and then freaking out over a banana. As she removes one from the bunch, she’s super bummed out. “That wasn’t the one I wanted,” she says, as her mom tells her she can’t cry and helps her get the exact banana she wants. But now, what to do with the other banana that Swift says “doesn’t have a head”—basically it’s open at the top.

She then crawls into bed to enjoy her snack. When her mom warns her not to fall asleep eating, she hilariously says, “I’m not asleep, my mind is alive!”

Watch for yourself below:

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It’s pretty great to see a totally unfiltered Swift join the internet tradition of loopy people after medical procedures a la “David at Dentist.” Even a superstar’s mom is not above embarrassing her in front of the world. “That’s on television,” Swift tells Fallon. “She was kind enough to drive me there but cruel enough to film it and give it to you!” She then muses about how far this video will go online, citing the #DrunkTaylor meme from the summer.

We’re just hoping Andrea Swift has more videos saved on her phone that she’ll choose to share with the rest of us.



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Taylor Swift Just Spilled So Many Details About Her Feud With Kanye West


Taylor Swift‘s feud with Kanye West has been well-documented over the years, starting with that infamous speech interruption from the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The latest chapter of this saga happened in 2016, when West included a lyric about Swift in his song “Famous,” calling her “that bitch.” Swift took issue with that specific phrase, but West’s wife, Kim Kardashian, contested the “Lover” singer actually approved the track. She leaked a phone conversation between West and Swift on Snapchat to prove her point, but it didn’t really work. The footage shows the two artists talking about the song, yes, but not the lyric Swift didn’t like. There’s been tension ever since.

Swift hasn’t really given her side of this story, until now. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, she spilled some tea about the feud seen round the world. She told the magazine that “the world didn’t understand the context and the events that led up to” the Snapchat incident. Here’s what she said, in full:

“Some events took place to cause me to be pissed off when he called me a bitch. That was not just a singular event. Basically, I got really sick of the dynamic between he and I. And that wasn’t just based on what happened on that phone call and with that song—it was kind of a chain reaction of things.

“I started to feel like we reconnected, which felt great for me—because all I ever wanted my whole career after that thing happened in 2009 was for him to respect me. When someone doesn’t respect you so loudly and says you literally don’t deserve to be here—I just so badly wanted that respect from him, and I hate that about myself, that I was like, ‘This guy who’s antagonizing me, I just want his approval.’ But that’s where I was. And so we’d go to dinner and stuff. And I was so happy, because he would say really nice things about my music. It just felt like I was healing some childhood rejection or something from when I was 19.

“But the 2015 VMAs come around. He’s getting the Vanguard Award. He called me up beforehand—I didn’t illegally record it, so I can’t play it for you. But he called me up, maybe a week or so before the event, and we had maybe over an hourlong conversation, and he’s like, ‘I really, really would like for you to present this Vanguard Award to me, this would mean so much to me,’ and went into all the reasons why it means so much, because he can be so sweet. He can be the sweetest. And I was so stoked that he asked me that. And so I wrote this speech up, and then we get to the VMAs and I make this speech and he screams, ‘MTV got Taylor Swift up here to present me this award for ratings!’ [Editor’s note: Rolling Stone clarified his exact words were “You know how many times they announced Taylor was going to give me the award ’cause it got them more ratings?”] And I’m standing in the audience with my arm around his wife, and this chill ran through my body. I realized he is so two-faced. That he wants to be nice to me behind the scenes, but then he wants to look cool, get up in front of everyone, and talk shit. And I was so upset.

“He wanted me to come talk to him after the event in his dressing room. I wouldn’t go. So then he sent this big, big thing of flowers the next day to apologize. And I was like, ‘You know what? I really don’t want us to be on bad terms again. So whatever, I’m just going to move past this.’ So when he gets on the phone with me, and I was so touched that he would be respectful and, like, tell me about this one line in the song.”



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