Brett Cooper

But holy shit, how stupid.

This was his only shot at having the appearance of an upper hand.

Now that entire conversation is so important because if we think back to this summer, when all the Taylor stuff was coming out, when Brian Freeman was trying to get these texts, a lot of people were like, you know, I can see why Taylor feels betrayed and is angry and is distancing herself because it seemed like, on the surface, that Blake was using her without her knowledge, was throwing her name around, was taking advantage of their friendship and her power and her influence without Taylor's knowledge.

you know, referring to Taylor as her dragon to Justin.

Well, guys, turns out that Blake also referred to Taylor as her dragon to Taylor, and Taylor was in on the joke the entire time.

Blake says, I have never felt more like Khaleesi.

I have dragons.

And then Taylor responds, I'm just picturing you muttering dracarys, and then I fire off those texts to Austin.

And then she puts like dragon fire emojis.

What she's talking about there is that her brother Austin works for her, works at her business, and he is the one that manages where her music gets placed in the world.

You know, if it's used at a

commercial, a movie, whatever, so if her song was going to be used in this film with Blake, her brother Austin was going to have to approve it and get that ball rolling.

All of this, in my mind, confirms a few things.

Number one, that Sony did not really have Blake's back, that they weren't really happy with her either.

She was not the knight in shining armor for this film.

Now number two, that she was using power and influence from people close to her to pressure Justin allegedly, allegedly, and probably to make him feel like these huge industry giants were going to turn on him.

All of this, it almost feels like literal psychological warfare.

You have this director, you have Justin Baldoni, he's a writer, he's a director, he's an actor, and it's not really his first rodeo, but this was going to be his biggest project to date.

You know, he's still a little green, he's done a few movies here and there, but mainly he's been an actor, and behind the scenes, somebody who was supposed to be his friend and collaborator is allegedly working with people that he probably looks up to, maybe wants to collaborate with, to allegedly destroy his reputation.

And then knowing all of that, you stupidly think that it's a good idea to turn around and sue him for a smear campaign?