Taylor Swift’s iconic celebrity ‘girl-squad’ is seemingly ever-expanding as the ‘Lavender Haze’ singer has confirmed to have a good time and hang great price in her friendships with girls from inside her industry, persistently upholding an ethos of empowerment and strengthen during her career. Befriending many stars over the years equivalent to Karlie Kloss, Selena Gomez, Lana Del Rey, Zoë Kravitz, and the Haim sisters, Taylor obviously enjoys surrounding herself with inspirational and powerful ladies.
One of Taylor’s longest superstar friendships is with Blake Lively, and her husband Ryan Reynolds, as they've persistently publicly appeared in combination and supported one every other as early as Taylor’s iconic 1989 era. Despite, holidaying, spending birthdays and fourth of Julys in combination, Blake directing one of Taylor’s music movies, and Taylor even name-dropping Blake’s children in her track, their dating reputedly got off to a rocky get started as 'Swifties' took issue with comments made by means of Blake on social media in regard to Taylor's paintings.
Blake Lively Sparked Her Friendship With Taylor Swift On Instagram
Blake Lively first publicly referenced Taylor Swift’s music in 2015 in a now-deleted Instagram submit after starring in a L’Oreal campaign that includes a roster of superstar A-Listers, which Lively likened to the ‘Bad Blood’ song video, announcing: ‘sooo, seems this WASN’T a video shoot for John Legend’s cover of Bad Blood.’
This playful and quite apt comparison was met with criticism, however, as fans of Swift jumped to her defense, believing Lively to have ‘thrown shade’ at Taylor and the ‘Bad Blood’ music video.
Lively very quickly rushed to clear up the misunderstanding and expressed her adoration for Taylor Swift, sharing, ‘Umm whoever thought I was throwin shade clearly doesn’t know I have a Taylor Swift Please Be My Wife Voo Doo Doll,’ along with a picture of her young niece at one of Taylor’s concerts.
Taylor clearly didn’t take offense to Blake’s harmless comments as the pair soon began their friendship just two months later, spending a day off together at ‘Movie World’ in Queensland while Taylor was touring her 1989 show and Blake was filming The Shallows in Australia.
Blake Lively was also spotted by fans in the crowd of Taylor’s Brisbane show just a day earlier, solidifying her status as the Taylor super fan she had so claimed to be.
Blake Lively Directed Taylor Swift’s Video For ‘I Bet You Think About Me’
In 2021, Taylor and Blake temporarily took their friendship to a more professional space, as Blake had her directorial debut working on the music video for Red (Taylor’s Version) song, 'I Bet You Think About Me.'
Following the rights to her discography being sold by her old record label, Big Machine Records, Taylor has since endeavored to rerecord her first six albums in an effort to take rightful ownership of her lengthy catalog of music.
Red (Taylor’s Version) was the second album that Taylor opted to rerecord, following Fearless (Taylor's Version) also in 2021.
‘I Bet You Think About Me’ didn’t feature on Taylor’s original version of the album in 2012 but was taken from the archives for the re-release, or ‘Taylor’s Version,’ and put out as a single.
Interestingly though, Blake Lively is not the only member of her household to have collaborated with Swift on one of her projects, and by no means is she the first.
Lively and Reynolds’ eldest daughter James was, in fact, Taylor’s first collaborator from the family as Swift sampled James’ voice at the beginning of the Reputation track, ‘Gorgeous’ in 2017.
Did Taylor Swift Reveal The Name Of Blake Lively And Ryan Reynolds’ Fourth Child?
With Blake Lively’s recent Super Bowl Sunday Instagram post, casually showing her without her pregnant stomach, acting as a sort of makeshift birth announcement, fans of the Gossip Girl star have been left to fill in many of the blanks surrounding the birth of her and Ryan Reynolds’ fourth child.
The name of the baby, however, has been speculated since as early as October 2022 upon the release of Taylor Swift’s latest album, Midnights.
In 2020, Taylor affectionately expressed her love for Lively, Reynolds, and their family on her album Folklore, naming characters in her song ‘betty’ after the couple’s children, James and Inez, and even revealed the name of their third child through her titular character, Betty.
It is with this in mind that fans of Swift and the Lively-Reynolds household grew curious about the significance of the name ‘Daisy May’ in ‘You’re On Your Own, Kid’ on Taylor’s tenth studio album, Midnights, and wondered if, like ‘betty,’ the name related to Taylor’s friendship with the couple and perhaps revealed the name of Blake’s fourth child.
Taylor is known by her audience to be a fan of burying Easter eggs and hidden meanings throughout her music, so there is no doubt that she planned for Daisy May to get people talking and create rumors.
Whether this was yet another baby name reveal or an intentional diversion remains to be seen, however, and at this point, it seems as though only Blake and Ryan can clear that up for fans, in due time.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTErZ%2Bippeoe6S7zGifqK9dmbalecGlmKSdXaG2t7HLsmSappRiwaLFy6ipZqunnrO1ecGemqillWKzs7XEp5usZw%3D%3D