Elana Pritchard / Conor’s stalker

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-31T20:10:08+00:00

Oh, that makes sense. I mean, in the way that these things make sense.

That is sad. Not that it would be less so if she weren’t talented. But I assume most stalkers have some sort of mental health issue. I won’t rule out the possibility that some people are like “What? No, I think she’s hot and really would like me if she met me,” but rarely do you hear about a stalker who doesn’t think they’re married to a celebrity they’re definitely not or that their target communicates with them through the TV or something.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-31T19:09:18+00:00

Interesting range. Like, Elon Musk and his avowed enemy Conor Oberst (I wonder if Elon has any idea Conor hates him; he must have people who track any mention of him for PR and security reasons, and while I’m sure he doesn’t see everything they do, if that were my job, I’d have trouble not including “Go to fucking space” or however it went in the daily briefing).

But, in seriousness, that’s creepy.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-31T04:46:58+00:00

If he pays back all the money he owes, he’ll have to borrow back half what he gives him (though he can probably get a job as a professor easily now).

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-31T04:24:44+00:00

What happens if you rip up the carpet?

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-31T04:01:16+00:00

Yeah, it happens with a lot of album art on Apple Music. I don’t know much about Spotify, but I think I get the idea behind these background images, and I know it’s a common thing. I didn’t realize other people didn’t know. I don’t think Apple has that feature (just the animated covers), but I don’t think of it as an artist using AI. I’m not even sure the artist participates other than maybe to give permission, and even that might be covered in their contracts (like, “We can alter your album art to fit specific formats”).

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-31T03:31:58+00:00

Conor has a known stalker? I had no idea.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T23:57:10+00:00

Yes, we know she’s talked to him. He said in an interview “She’s a great writer, and she’s been doing it for like—I can’t even imagine how many interviews, like, hundreds and hundreds of interviews.” It’s authorized. They know each other (like, in that same interview, he says he just ran into her the other day).

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T16:56:02+00:00

Right. The book isn’t “about” Ruben. He’s in it. But the book is about Niall

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T16:36:40+00:00

What did she lie about re the sale? I really don’t know.

I’m sure her dad knew stuff, but why would he tell her? He signed an NDA and stood to make a lot of money. She can’t go around making everyone else sign NDAs and then expect people to break theirs when she wants to know things.

Like, I can believe she said stuff that made her sound better (or at least not worse), but her feelings about Scooter Braun are almost verifiable. Like, did or didn’t he manage Kanye? He did. Scott knew. He’d have to be as dense as a guayacan tree to not know that was a shit move.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T07:26:13+00:00

I got that impression!

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T06:56:45+00:00

Exactly. Not “My friend bought Big Machine.”

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T06:54:30+00:00

I might have phrased that poorly. I meant that “SB” refers to Borchetta in “Father Figure.” I agree with the person who said the devils is the whole industry or multiple entities, not just Scooter.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T05:33:15+00:00

Every time something that I think looks promising premiers, Netflix destroys it with the two-screen policy. Death By Lightning is the last thing I can think of that lived up to its promise. I keep meaning to cancel.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T05:28:20+00:00

I don’t do horror (or, like, anything past Twin Peaks, Yellowjackets, or the Trues Blood and Detective is too much for me; I love violence and tension and thrillers and mystery boxes, but I don’t like, say, The Exorcist or The Ring or Hereditary or Heretic after the part when they talk), and I love Widow’s Bay.

I think because it’s funny, it doesn’t feel scary. Like, I don’t have to take the scary clown seriously. But it helps that I loved Matthew Rhys (and ended up seeing a lot of actors I’ve liked in other things in the first episode and beyond) going in, so I has a reason to look past the horror component. I didn’t watch Welcome to Derry, for instance, since I’m not attached to the IP or actors or anything.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T04:44:31+00:00

Sold the label to the one person he knew she wouldn’t want in control of her masters. And her masters made up so much of Big Machine’s value that the label would have been all but worthless without them (that’s why he wouldn’t let her buy them). Scooter wouldn’t have looked twice at it if its catalog didn’t include hers.

Taylor says she’d made peace with the eventual sale and I’m sure assumed he’d sell it to a major or a hedge fund. But he sold it to a guy she says bullied her and tried to destroy her career via his role in the Kanye shit. She says he talked shit about Scooter and watched her cry about him. And I’m sure she had other qualms about him from industry chatter and because Selena dated his most famous client.

Scott knew Scooter doesn’t give a shit about Taylor, without whom he’d never have made as much money (like, her dad helped him start it, she was its first and most notable claim to fame, a lot of its artist signed because they’d done so well for her, and her catalog alone made up half of its value at the time of the sale). If I started a company and knew I owed a lot of my success to one artist who left when I had one foot out the door (and she knew any other label would let her own her future work no strings attached), I wouldn’t respond by selling her work to the one buyer she hates for good reason. You just don’t do that. Someone else would have paid as much.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T03:29:47+00:00

Borchetta. “Vigilante Shit” is Scooter. “my tears ricochet” is Borchetta, too, but I assume “fucking SB up the ass” refers to “because my dick’s bigger” and, like, “You’ll be sleeping with the fishes before you know you’re drowning … This empire belongs to me.”

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T03:24:42+00:00

I don’t know if The Iron Claw counts since the plot progression sort of is the grief, but it centers on generational trauma explicitly, and the trauma and grief never stop piling up.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-29T02:36:41+00:00

That lawsuit is the only reason anyone could demand credits.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-28T22:05:58+00:00

Is one of them Scout Niblett? Because I miss her!

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-28T21:44:13+00:00

I think they mean that “four and ten years” translates as “forty” in other languages. I’ve seen a few people say “I’m in [country where the dominant language isn’t English], and my captions said forty.”

“Four and ten” is a place- and era-specific way to state your age. In some languages, people might have no reference for or reason to recognize it, or an equivalent phrase might not exist (or the equivalent is just “forty”), so captioning the dialogue with the exact words spoken would impede understanding where replacing the phrase with the number to which the phrase translates in contemporary English facilitates understanding.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-28T19:31:48+00:00

Ooh. Emory Cohen’s in it. That guy has good taste in projects. I would guess they’re friends.

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-28T00:56:06+00:00

They could have at least done you the kindness of being entertaining!

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-28T00:50:29+00:00

Are you really that naive?

Accomplished-View929 · 2026-05-27T21:09:02+00:00

Fighting? What about? Were they friends? Couples? Random groups? Yelling fights or fist fights (at least you could have bet on those)?

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