LIL BABY

Hi.

I promised you a baby newsletter so you’re getting a baby newsletter.

It was rare, we were there. #AllTooWellTenMinuteVersion by @TaylorSwift13 debuts at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Only 58 songs have debuted at #1 in the history of the chart.

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— Entertainment Insider (@EntInsider) November 22, 2021

Mostly I just wanted to share that Taylor’s 10-minute version of All Too Well unseated American Pie by Don Mclean and is now the longest No. 1 hit in Billboard's Hot 100 chart history.

This is monumental news for me because when I was seven years old I was on a cruise to Nova Scotia with my family and we were in The Dolphin Lounge where karaoke was going strong. I asked my dad if I could go up there and belt one out - he obliged and sent me up with instructions on how to ask the MC what I wanted to sing. With zero hesitation I decided on American Pie by Don Mclean. And at the age of SEVEN I sang all eight minutes and thirty six seconds of the song.

For reference - this is me at seven:

Ok you’re welcome. Remember how much I must love you to share that anecdote with you.

Another reason why I HAD to send you this baby newsletter today was because of these STUPID chain mail Instagram stories millennials are doing?? It uses the new featured photo widget which I don’t even have yet. THANK GOD. The trends include:

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— Harry Hill (@veryharryhill) November 21, 2021

If you use eye cream at night you’re too old to be doing the thing where you post the Urban Dictionary of your name on Instagram
— Caroline Holland (@choll12) November 24, 2021

THE REST OF IT:

Adele

requested Spotify not auto-shuffle her new album and they obliged.
Lizzo and BTS

bonded backstage at the Harry Styles concert. I swear to god Harry Styles could accomplish world peace if he set his mind to it.
More good Britney news

Netflix has updated the text at the end of their Britney documentary to reflect her newfound freedom.
Rudy Guede,

convicted over the murder of Meredith Kercher, released from prison and Amanda Knox is still struggling to clear her name and deal with the PTSD.
Taylor. Again.

With this video of her singing Champagne Problems in a wedding dress.
Secret book wife.

Which is this weird tweet that went viral of a man complaining about how his wife wrote a book and made thousands of dollars… and he’s mad about it?
The crypto meme

that went viral on Twitter and now everyone is repeating it with things like this.
Adele

crying over her English teacher. To be honest, I don’t even think teachers understand the impact that they have on people.
Pete Davidson

started taking singing lessons as a joke to f with his friends and then this came out - Walkin’ In Staten.
Mary Shelley and NYT Books.

You have to read it to understand and just go into the comments and be regaled. But it was everywhere. A BIG CRINGE.
The fight

during the Lakers game between LeBron James and Isaiah Stewart.
The African American urge trend

@blavity
Grammy nominations

are out and there are some surprises. Although the only surprise is that I am not voting for Evermore for album of the year and instead Montero by Lil Nas X.
Hawkeye

apparently came out and I was too distracted by everything else going on to even realize it.
You need to learn about

Chadtopia on Reddit. It is nuanced and bizarre and a really specific part of the internet so lean in.
James Cordon

has apologized to B.T.S. after he said the group were “pretty unusual visitors” for the UN Summit and described the ARMY as “15-year-old girls.”
Selena Gomez

is starting a media company focusing on mental health.