5 times Taylor Swift allegedly chart-blocked another artist
If you like this story, please take a second to sign up for our daily newsletter. We’ll keep you informed about the best music news, features, and reviews. Let me preface this by saying I would never claim to be a wily, hardened investigative journalist. Unlike some of my revered colleagues here at Paste, I don’t have the skills to follow a lead or cover a beat. I do, however, have a Reddit account and a nose for bullshit. And ever since I first read this triumph of music journalism at the tender age of sixteen, that nose has been particularly attuned to Taylor Swift’s specific bullshit. Olivia Rodrigo recently released a remix of “expectations” featuring Chappell Roan, an excellent team-up designed to break the Internet several ways. Not long after the announcement, the usual comments came about a potentially real, potentially fabricated feud between Rodrigo and Taylor Swift, which has become a very real, not-at-all-fabricated feud between her stans online. Henceforth, I’ll refer to t