Well, I have a hard time separating my own personal stuff from mean, and I'll tell you why. This song is about a guy named Bob Lefsetz, who is the music industry blogger, and he writes about the music industry and pop culture and technology, but mostly at the time that this was happening, it's the music industry. And he effectively, after a couple of live performances, accused her, including her SNL performance, accused her of using auto tune and said that she can't sing and just laid into her. And it was, at the very beginning, core, a mean thing to say. Now we know, because he published the receipts afterwards, that she called him from London, I think twice, and protested and said, listen, you can say that my voice is weak, but come out on the road and look at my touring gear. I don't use auto tune. Like, I sing the way that I sing. If you want to tell me I'm missing notes, that's fine, but don't challenge the authenticity of what I'm doing up there. And at the end of that description, he said that she had won him over, but the damage there had been done. And the reason that I can't fully separate from it is Bob Lefsetz has written a lot about me personally, and he wrote a lot of very nice things. And then there was a time when he wrote something that was extraordinarily mean and hurtful. And the reason that it's mean and hurtful for even somebody like me is that, you know, the entire industry is reading this stuff. He is the blog that everyone you know subscribes to. And so your colleagues and your peers and other people in the biz, and in. In Taylor's case, that's everybody she sees every day. And so to have an accusation like that leveled on my little tiny world, I know what that feels like and how, like, I was, like, on my back for a night, like, oh, God, how am I going to explain, like, it's wrong what he said? He didn't even understand what he's talking about. He's either, you know, making this up or he's lying or he's exaggerating, whatever. Well, yes.
