{"id":75,"date":"2020-12-05T02:36:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T02:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/?p=75"},"modified":"2020-12-05T02:37:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T02:37:49","slug":"love-story-and-loving-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/2020\/12\/05\/love-story-and-loving-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Story and Loving Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome back to POP! Of Culture Weekly, where we discuss the highlights of all things entertainment for the week! This week, we cover\u00a0Ryan Reynold&#8217;s hilarious ad featuring a snippet of Taylor Swift re-recording of her previous albums and Elliot Page coming out as transgender!\u00a0Check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reyolds and Swift Collab in a New Advertisement<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent advertisement directed and produced by Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift shared the first snippet of her re-recording of <em>Love Story<\/em>. The hilarious advertisement for Match.com follows the story of Satan finding his match, 2020. In the ad, Satan and 2020 are seen meeting each other for the first time and falling in love with one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tweet, Swift stated that Reynolds reached out to her asking for a snippet of her re-recording to be used in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Okay so while my new re-records are NOT done, my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VancityReynolds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VancityReynolds<\/a> asked me if he could use a snippet of one for a LOLsome commercial he wrote so&#8230;here\u2019s a sneak peak of Love Story! Working hard to get the music to you soon!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0vBFXxaRXR\">https:\/\/t.co\/0vBFXxaRXR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylorswift13\/status\/1334144808693223425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift is currently in the process of re-recording some of her earlier music after a long and continuous battle and multiple failed attempts to negotiate with record executive Scooter Braun, who had owned the rights to much of her earlier music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Elliot Page Comes Out as Transgender<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Dec. 1, Canadian actor who starred in the film <em>Juno<\/em> and is the current Netflix series <em>The Umbrella Academy<\/em>, Elliot Page came out as transgender. In a lengthy note, Page shared a post to share the news with their followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CIQ1QFBhNFg\/?utm_source=ig_embed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/elliot-1024x671.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/elliot-1024x671.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/elliot-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/elliot-768x503.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/12\/elliot.png 1132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>photo from Elliot Page&#8217;s Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many celebrities have come to congratulate Page on their announcement. Fellow cast member of <em>The Umbrella Academy<\/em>, Tom Hopper, who plays Luther Hargreeves on the show, commented on Page&#8217;s post saying &#8220;Elliot, I&#8217;m so proud of you, and even prouder to call you family. All the love.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus also chimed in saying &#8220;Elliot rules!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to POP! Of Culture Weekly, where we discuss the highlights of all things entertainment for the week! This week, we cover\u00a0Ryan Reynold&#8217;s hilarious ad featuring a snippet of Taylor Swift re-recording of her previous albums and Elliot Page coming out as transgender!\u00a0Check it out! Reyolds and Swift Collab in a New Advertisement In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/2020\/12\/05\/love-story-and-loving-themselves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love Story and Loving Themselves<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49986,1],"tags":[1436079,1436399,1435508,1435298,1437257,1435113,1435844,777512,1436744,1436945],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-uncategorized","tag-elliot-page","tag-juno","tag-love-story","tag-match-com","tag-miley-cyrus","tag-ryan-reynolds","tag-scooter-braun","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-umbrella-academy","tag-tom-hopper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}