niallofficial: Both Slow Hands and This Town have crossed 1 billion streams on @Spotify
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Louis raises his brow. "Our popular boy's back. First week into uni, already got himself a gang of big brothers and sister."
The sentence is carried out in a playful tone, earning chuckles from the lads, but Harry hears the bitterness dripping.
Harry chuckles to himself. Things are getting very interesting.
Just a reminder.
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Louis' Birthday Cake via Pheobe's instagram
12/24/23
Harry biking in Rome! (4 June 2024)
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A Taylor update account posted about the assistants comment that Ready for it..? was written on the 1989 World Tour on Twitter. A comment linked it to MH. Setting aside that in 2015 Matty said he never dated Taylor Swift, that he is not younger than her ex's and he started dating Gabrielle Brooks until 2019. Matty was not in the picture for Reputation: See here. This shows this fan was not here, or has forgotten 2015. I need to explain that in 2015
1989 was new. Style was new. "LHH" was known as 'Harry Styles', actually just 'Harry' because One Direction was on tour.
One Direction released Perfect! Wildest Dreams music video was brand new! The Out of the Woods Music video was yet to come. I cannot say how much the zeitgeist was here:
👆🏻That's Taylor liking a post of Perfect and Made in the AM charting higher than Wildest Dreams and 1989 (which was a year old and still a top 5 album) in October 2015. And the media (and maybe Calvin) were still obsessed with Haylor, given Taylor performed 1989 weekly:
The seeds of Reputation and the drama of 2016 were already there. They started with the absolute domination of 1989 and the 1989 World Tour. Fuelled by Calvin Harris publicly fighting with One Direction on Twitter .(x, x) Rumours of Calvin cheating which Taylor liked posts denying. She even told Vogue Australia Reputation would not be out in 2 years like before, because she was already over-exposed (read this 6 times Karma truthers). (12 November 2015) She was already talking about being cancelled and had Ready for it...? and So it Goes in the bank long before she met Joe.
And lets not forget the Snake Ring in the Blank Space music video, that was November 2014.
In summary, Reputation's aesthetic, meaning, release timeline and at least 2 tracks (and potentially also New Years Day) were all in train 2015. A full 2015 timeline: