What has been trending online this week?

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What is trending online this week?

Clare Byrne 0:01

The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk with Aviva Insurance.

Unknown 0:09

Now it's time to talk about what has been trending online this week and entertainment journalist and podcaster Dee Reddy is with me. Good morning, Dee. Good morning. Lovely to see you. Now the big story this morning and it's all over the internet is Taylor Swift's new song for Toy Story 5. Yeah, so she has gone back to her country roots on this one and rejoined with producer Jack Antonoff who most of her recent albums, barring actually the most recent one, Diary of a Showgirl, she would have collaborated with. A real return to form for her actually. And the song is specifically for Jessie the Cowgirl. So it's a nice fit. It's really, really nice. She's just so good at writing those songs that you instantly feel you know and you're familiar with and you're there, you're in.

Unknown 0:53

And it's perfect. It fits, I think, really, really well into the kind of bigger Toy Story universe. The Randy Newman soundtracks from the first film. It just really, really works.

What is Taylor Swift's new song for Toy Story 5 about?

Unknown 1:04

So I can imagine that's going to be a huge hit for her. Only announced on Monday as well, which is amazing. But we're seeing that more and more with artists like Taylor, that they give you an announcement and then very soon afterwards, you get what you're not kept waiting. She has that lovely video as well online. Did you see her post this morning? She's five in the video, isn't she? It's so cute. And I think that's what's really nice about it. You know, the cynic in me was like, oh, is this her fast way of getting an EGOT, an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony? But then when you see the video that she posted, it's actually talking about how much she loved these films as a five-year-old. She's dressed as Jessie in the video in the costume and she's dancing around in it.

Unknown 1:42

Yeah, that's going to do well for Taylor Swift. That's her new song for Toy Story 5. It's called I Knew It, I Knew You. Is that it? Spot on, yes. Now, Scary Movie 6, the cast have been doing promotional work all over the place and they have been getting lots of attention online, haven't they? They sure have. So there's been a couple of things that have come out of this. The main one, I suppose, was this big... stunt that they did on Times Square in New York where they hotboxed in this big purse box. Now, for Newstalk listeners who might not be familiar with what hotboxing is, it's when a group of people, I think usually, they smoke marijuana in an enclosed space and the smoke fills up the space and they get high.

Unknown 2:30

I'm glad you explained that to us. Yeah, there you go. So what, the cast of... Scary Movie were smoking out. Well, it was filling with smoke. I'm presuming it was, you know, it was fake smoke or whatever. But it was very much part of the kind of comedy in these sort of films. The things you have to do to sell a film these days. Right, right. And do you know what? There's like, there's bits, it's such a, like, the original Scary Movie came out in 2000. Like, it's incredible what they've grossed. $900 million. $900 million. since then worldwide. And you wouldn't expect that for a spoof film. But even in the video they released about their hotboxing, inverted commas, on Times Square, there's some real throwbacks to viral jokes of lore.

Dee Reddy 3:22

Hey, Marlon, what are you doing? Literally hotboxing in Times Square.

Unknown 3:39

There you go. God, it's all very jubilant, isn't it? I never thought I'd hear that one's up thing again. Oh, jeez Louise. Listen, we're going to move to Love Island now and to Sean Fitzgerald to give him his proper name. But there's a lot of talk about what Sean is called on Love Island and what he's called at home. This is quite funny to me. I would have thought that British people would be more familiar with the way that Irish people shorten a surname as a nickname, but apparently not. So he's been trying to make Fitzy happen. That's obviously what he's called. Is that not what he's called at home? Is that what his friends call him at home? That's what his friends call him. It's what his online handle is.

Unknown 4:20

But obviously he was introduced on the show as Sean Fitzgerald.