- [Sussan] Drake sparks major Taylor Swift
collaboration rumors.
- [Carly] Shawn Mendes reveals his insecurities
in an emotional way.
- That and so much more in today's show.
What is up, you guys?
I'm your girl, Sussan Mourad.
- Hey, I'm Carly Henderson.
- And this week as I was casually scrolling
through my Instagram feed,
I literally had to pick my jaw off the floor
when I saw that Drake had posted a picture
with Taylor Swift and so naturally the internet
has gone wild with theories and whether a collaboration
is in the works.
Drake had us Swifties so shook
when he shared this post on Instagram
with a series of pictures
mostly of himself and his son Adonis
with the caption,
"they too soft to understand the meaning of hard work."
We hear you, Drizzy.
But it was the last slide that caused many of us fans
to have a little meltdown if you will.
It was a sweet picture of Drake
with his arms wrapped around Miss Swift
with her leaning into his arm.
And of course it could mean many different things
but we had to put our investigator hat on for this one.
Now to refresh your memory,
Drake and Tay have been good friends for several years
and have often spoken about their mutual respect
and admiration for each other's work.
As you might recall, Taylor name dropped Drake
in her track, I Forgot That You Existed,
where she sings, "In my feelings more than Drake".
Prior to Lover's release in 2019,
Tay also posed on the cover of Entertainment Weekly
wearing a denim jacket repping people and things she loves,
which included a button of Drake
from his Hotline Bling video.
And of course I can't not mention
Tay's iconic Apple Music commercial in 2016
on the treadmill when she takes a spectacular fall
while singing along to Jump Man,
Drake's collab with Future.
It gets me every time!
Drake returned the admiration in his Apple Music commercial
by lip syncing the lyrics to Tay's Bad Blood
while jamming out in the gym.
Okay, so back to this cryptic post.
Around the same time these commercials aired,
rumors of the two working together started to swell.
In November 2016,
a source revealed to the sun that after the success
of Taylor's Bad Blood remix which featured Kendrick Lamar,
Taylor had a plan to team up with Drake adding,
"As well as writing with Taylor,
he's producing a few tracks and even lent his vocals
to one song.
It's a real mix of edgier hip-hop and R&B sounds."
Interesting.
Then almost a year later,
Taylor released her sixth studio album Reputation
and we were pretty surprised
that there was no Drake feature on the album.
However, fast forward to this week,
Drake has reignited speculation that he and T Swizzle
will be teaming up for a song together
after he randomly shared these TBT photo with her.
As to why Drake decided to post this now,
well, if Taylor has anything to do with it,
we know it's never a coincidence.
So, many of us fans are speculating that it's an Easter egg
to hint that the next Taylor re-recording
will feature Drake on it.
Many Swifties think Drake has pretty much confirmed
that he will feature on an upcoming vault track
but as you know,
we are torn on which album
Taylor will actually release next
and so the clowning begins.
Some fans think that Drake's track will be featured
as a vault track on Reputation, Taylor's version,
as it was the album released after the rumors first emerged,
like these fans pointed out.
However many Swifties believe that Drake
would feature on Taylor's rerecording of 1989
for a variety of reasons, including that Bad Blood,
the song Drake sang along to in his Apple commercial
was on 1989.
As you may have noticed,
Drake's photo with Taylor was number five in his carousel
and 1989 is Taylor's fifth album.
While other Swifties pointed out that the photo
looks a lot like a Polaroid with Polaroids
being a key part of Taylor's 1989 promotional rollout
back in 2014.
But as you know,
we can never talk about Taylor's next rerecord
without mentioning Karma.
Now, in case you weren't aware,
it's heavily rumored
that there's an unconfirmed, unreleased album called karma
with a popular fan theory
that Taylor was forced to scrap that album in 2016
following her feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
So of course there are also fans speculating
that Drake's post is tied to music on Karma,
especially over on Reddit.
But before we get into the Swiftie hysteria
as to what we think to be true,
TMZ's reporting that according to one of their sources,
apparently Taylor and Drake are not about to drop
new music together
and it was just a harmless throwback photo.
First of all, I am choosing to believe
that this so-called source saying it was nothing
but a harmless throwback photo,
I don't wanna believe it
just because I don't wanna believe it,
even though it's possible that it was
just a harmless throwback photo
but we know one thing for sure,
when it comes to Taylor Swift,
it is never a coincidence
and all I wanna say
is I don't really care which album,
whether it's 1989, Reputation or Karma,
I just want something Tay.
We are tired and we are hungry and honestly,
how good would a Taylor and Drake collaboration be?
And if I had to think about it
and if I had to choose which album,
I mean 1989 would make the most sense based on all the clues
but things are still tied up with the Shake It Off lawsuit.
So I don't really know if we're gonna be getting
that album anytime too soon until that lawsuit ties up.
So maybe we are gonna get Karma after all
and nothing is really holding Karma back and Karma you know,
potentially being the more edgier sound,
a collaboration with Drake makes complete sense to me.
- It does.
Are you listening, Taylor?
This is what we want from you.
We are so down for this.
And I think we all know,
you don't do anything involving Taylor Swift
and have it mean nothing.
Like she has got a tight grip on her inner circle.
I mean a loving grip, but it's a tight one.
She controls the narrative, right?
So we're hearing there's no forthcoming collab
and I will believe that
because that's what they're saying right now
even though we don't want it to be true.
- No!
- But this has to be some kind of hint
for a project other than a collab.
All right.
Moving onto Shawn Mendes,
because he just got real in a letter to fans
saying that he actually has a really hard time
telling the truth about who he is.
So here's what happened.
Shawn posted this heartfelt note to fans
on his Twitter saying,
"Sometimes I ask myself what it is
"that I should be doing with my life
"and what I always hear in return is,
"'to tell the truth, to be the truth.'
"I feel like that's a hard thing to do though."
Shawn says that he worries that if people
know and see the truth,
they might think less of him or become bored.
So in those moments of feeling low,
he'll deal with it by either putting on a show or hiding.
Shawn also said that he constantly feels
like he's either flying or drowning and isn't sure
if other 20 somethings experience the same highs and lows
and then Shawn went back to the truth theme saying,
"The truth is, I really do wanna show up to the world
"as my 100% true, honest, unique self
"and not care what anyone thinks.
"Sometimes I do!
"Sometimes I really don't care what people think
"and I feel free.
"Most of the time, it's a struggle though."
Now Shawn kind of kept the root
of this whole contemplation pretty vague.
He wasn't explicit about if it was
all about his breakup with Camilla or what
but the internet even suggested that he could be opening up
about his sexuality which social media users
have long harassed him about or, you know,
maybe it's just your typical growing up insecurities,
just wondering what you're doing with your life.
Shawn may have even been logging too many hours
doom scrolling on the interweb lately,
as he also said he feels overwhelmed and overstimulated.
Fans naturally got a little worried about Shawn
but he assured them in a follow up tweet,
"I'm honestly so okay!
"I just wanna communicate with you guys
"in a real honest way."
He also tweeted, "And I guess I'm like, damn,
"if I'm feeling this with all the blessings I have,
"I imagine there must be so many people feeling this
"and I just don't want them to feel alone!"
Man, this is so relatable of Shawn to talk about.
I really appreciate it.
It sounds like he's struggling
with a little bit of imposter syndrome perhaps
which I totally feel him on.
Whether it's like career changes, relationship changes,
just changes in growing up,
when your identity changes and it's linked
to those different things,
you just start kind of questioning everything.
I've definitely been there before.
I couldn't believe he was kind of talking about feeling
like he was failing at points too.
'Cause I'm like,
- I know.
- Shawn Mendes, you are selling millions of records,
touring all over the world and I just kind of
couldn't believe that but I've, I have heard before that,
if you're waiting to feel like you've made it,
you're never gonna feel that.
Like the bar always just keeps getting further and further.
So if I was a psychologist analyzing the whole thing,
give me those glasses, Sussan! (laughing)
- Put them on!
- And either way, I feel like just opening up about this,
seeing the iPhone note,
maybe he's kind of hinting at a future song
pulling a little Charlie Puth, if you will.
- One of the things I couldn't help but wonder
was what triggered Shawn to put that note out right now.
Like obviously we know he's just gone
through a big breakup with Camilla.
He's going through a lot of life changes.
He's growing up so he's obviously being, you know,
really vulnerable and wanting to share with fans
that he is going through a lot of things but he's okay.
You know, I think all these feelings are normal
and it's a great reminder for all of us.
You know, that we're all, you know, we're all gonna be okay.
- I love this personal growth.
All right, guys, buckle up because we're gonna give you
a quick roundup of all the celeb news from this week
that you need to know starting out with Camilla Cabello's
Carpool Karaoke,
where she shared the real reason that she auditioned
for the X Factor.
- X Factor.
- I was 15.
I was like a huge One Direction fan
and I was like The Voice?
X Factor?
And I was like, well, One Direction will be at X Factor.
I don't know if they'll be at The Voice.
So let me audition for X Factor.
- That was the reason.
- Literally, this is really embarrassing,
and I can only say this
because obviously that was like 10, (chuckles)
it was 10 years ago,
but I literally was like,
I'm auditioning for X Factor
because I will marry Harry Styles, like I will.
- [Carly] Now, while she might not be marrying Harry
anytime soon,
she is hanging out with Selena Gomez.
So we're gonna take that as a win
- Switching gears.
The LAPD has confirmed that A$AP Rockie has been arrested.
According to reports,
A$AP was arrested at LAX Airport on Wednesday morning,
after arriving from a trip from Barbados with Rihanna.
He was detained in connection to a November 2021 shooting.
Details are still developing
but according to a press release,
A$AP has been charged with assault
with a deadly weapon firearm after a victim claimed
that A$AP and two others approached him on the street
and shot at him three to four times
and believed one of the bullets grazed his left hand.
His bail was set at $550,000 according to the LA County
Sheriff's Department booking report.
A$AP was released less than three hours later
after posting bond, according to records,
and has a court date set for August 17.
- [Olivia] The way I feel the best is when I,
oh my god, I'm such a Pisces.
- And our girl, Olivia Rodrigo,
was revealed as the new face of Glossier.
Now this isn't a total surprise
since Olivia's been name dropping Glossier
a couple of times throughout the last year
and I think it's a great choice to kind of age
the millennial beauty brand down just a little bit.
- And Blac Chyna versus the Kardashians
is officially underway.
While there have been many headlines
surrounding this scandalous trial,
the internet is running wild with the sketch
of the Kardashians in the courtroom.
Like this person who pointed out
the sketcher clearly isn't a Kardashian fan.
While this fan called them art,
along with a sketch of Chyna.
- That artist did them dirty with that sketch.
All right, Joe Alwyn,
who is known to be a very private person,
opened up about those Taylor Swift engagement rumors.
So Joe told the Wall Street Journal Magazine,
"I mean, the truth is, if the answer was yes,
I wouldn't say,
and if the answer was no, I wouldn't say."
Well, thanks for clearing that one up, Joe. (laughs)
- A true gentleman.
All right, that's all from us, guys.
- Yep, see you guys later!
- [Both] Bye!
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