a sofia x taylor quick hit

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Marie Antoinette in a Park, drawing, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Sofia Coppola got… diplomatic:

You mentioned you saw Barbie. What did you think of the movie?

I’m glad that it was so successful and made for an audience of girls and women.

One of the hallmarks of a lot of your movies is taking the feelings and experiences of young women seriously, and I’ve seen people draw parallels to Taylor Swift’s work. Is that an artist you have any feelings about?

I know my kids do, and I respect that, but I never really… it’s not my generation. But I like it when someone’s writing their own material. I think it’s much more interesting than a team. I think that’s admirable.

Well, I had to put up something about this. And I already warned the Taylor haters they were in for a bad week. So here we go. Fun fact: Brian Hiatt, the reporter interviewing Coppola in this piece, also did the 2012 profile of Taylor Swift where she crashes her car twice.¹ This profile ga…