If I’m interpreting a [fairly obvious] item from Blind Gossip correctly, a battle between sworn nemeses Katy Perry and Taylor Swift may have been quietly raging in board rooms and conference calls inside 30 Rockefeller Center as the current one involving Kimye took over the headlines.
Because Perry and Swift will likely release new albums this year, both were potentially in the running for supplying NBC with their official Olympics anthem. Perry’s generic but effective “Rise” was the champ, and that could have been because Swift’s offering wasn’t up to snuff.
Writes Blind Gossip:
We’ve told you before that in order to score a big public gig like the Super Bowl, this singer really needs an anthem. We’re talking about a big song that stirs the emotions and invokes concepts like winning or victory or overcoming adversity.
Well, she blew it again! She was one of several singers in competition for a song for a major sporting event, but she just couldn’t rise to the occasion an come up with a song that would work.
Don’t bother asking her about it, though. She will never, ever admit that she was even approached for the gig. After all, losing is just not a word that she wants associated with her or her work!
Since many of us are in the habit of calling beloved female celebrities “Mom,” I propose that we start calling their foils “Aunt.” For example: I feel like we’re inching closer and closer to Aunt Swift sawing off her chunk of Rhode Island and sailing it deep into the North Atlantic.