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Taylor Swift’s “22″ About Harry Styles And Justin Bieber, Sloppy Site Wrongly Says

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6:49 pm, February 5th, 2013

(HollywoodLife)

How lazy and careless is HollywoodLife?

It’s a question scientists have tried to answer for years, and Tuesday brought new evidence that the webloid is getting worse, not better.

The subject this time around is Taylor Swift’s next single “22,” which HollywoodLife dutifully announces “will be hitting the airwaves just in time for spring on April 1.”

That part is true.

Except Jay Penske’s HollywoodLife is not content merely with facts and reality.

No, the blog feels the need to plunge headfirst into overheated sensationalism, and so its story tries to link “22″ to Harry Styles, Selena Gomez, and Justin Bieber.

(Huh?)

The lyrics to “22″ begin, “It feels like a perfect night to dress up like hipsters / And make fun of our exes, ah, ah, ah, ah.”

HollywoodLife smells scandal!

“We love the part about making fun of exes, could she be referencing Harry Styles and Selena’s ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber?” speculates the site.

Hmm… could she be?

We’re going to have to say… NO.

Because “22″ was written, recorded, and released as part of Swift’s “Red” album last October.

In other words, before Bieber and Gomez broke up, and before Swift and Styles even dated.

Because HollywoodLife has trouble understanding how show business works, it apparently thinks “22″ is a brand new song that Swift just wrote this morning — even though it links to audio that was posted in October.

And because HollywoodLife has trouble understanding how to use Google, it rarely checks to see if the alternate reality it pushes has any correlation to the real world inhabited by the famous people the site pretends to know.

Lame.

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  • http://twitter.com/Nathiest Nathiest

    Whatever generates hits. Case in point.

  • Luna

    Sometimes I just wish the tabloids would leave Taylor alone and besides for all the idiots out there, she only had 6 boyfriends (NOT 18) just 6.

  • http://twitter.com/FatLossExamples FatLossExamples.com

    Who would’ve thought someone making music about their experiences in life would cause so much hatred. Music wrote on experiences and feeling are the best. Keep on doing what you do best Taylor!

  • iiiveL

    wt? 22 is a song for her four best friends. selena gomez, ashley, diana agron, claire winter kislinger. it was on the RED song book. that was them having fun as best friends. and she said that 22 was her best age yet. so she wrote a song about it. hollywoodlife s article about 22 saying it’s for harry and justin is so ridiculous.

  • gregoryd

    The best joke I have heard in a long time goes like this: Hollywood life claims they actually employ journalists. ha ha ha ha ha

  • lillipop

    Finally someone speaks the truth about hollywoodlife. Most of their articles are pure sensationalism,and and just lies.

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