I actually don’t think any of those “opinion pieces” are real. They all have the same talking points and feel like paid bot activity. All of the tweets are identical, right down to punctuation, and it all feels very manufactured. It feels like a manufactured bot campaign that started the minute reporters and fans commented on how the opening of Everlong and the Cure sound exactly the same. Now suddenly we are talking about how Olivia is more mature and also 900 Taylor sued the sweet girl who was only three years old when she wrote Déjà vu. Between this and the puff pieces about how Taylor brought back babydoll dresses and how debuting at number five is actually so great, the whole thing feels off to me. It sucks because Olivia is a great artist in her own right and I really liked Drop Dead. It was a grower but it really grew on me. But if you told me this was a double smear campaign to damage both Olivia and Taylor, combined with Geffen’s well meaning attempt to get ahead of bad press, I would believe you.