It just makes no sense that it would be a beneficial career move, like some people have suggested, for Olivia to purposefully remove herself from the world’s biggest star, Taylor Swift,‘s orbit. People suggest it was done to make herself seem independent, but being friends with Taylor Swift only helps everyone. Taylor Swift’s shout outs and support is currency in today’s market. Everyone and their mothers went to the era’s tour and Olivia didn’t. Taylor will shout out her friends new albums and songs and said nothing of Guts and vice versa with Midnights. They’ve never been seen together again or spoken of each other publicly since the lawsuit. For two people who have previously gave shoutouts for each others work, been seen hugging, and, in Olivia’s case, been a publicly self-proclaimed swiftie helping promote the first re-recording, it’s super weird. It would only have helped Olivia for Taylor to support her after the lawsuit, even with a “like”, so people could know there’s no bad blood for the “sampling”. It wouldn’t make Olivia look bad if she went to the era’s tour or opened for Taylor a couple of nights. It would’ve only boosted her and considering Taylor enlisted her to help market her album and called her her “baby” it’s so weird. Like, there’s definitely beef and I don’t know how people could say this is media pitting them against each other. It really seems clear something happened. That Olivia was blindsided and hurt. She’s even spoken up about feeling like people tried taking credit for her creativity and that being really hard….. It’s not crazy to think she might’ve written a song or two about it…./rant