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PR Relationships, Parasociality, and Gaylor speculations (with Dr. Kate Kurtin)

High Brow

High Brow

Society & Culture

4.8 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Director's cut version of Mina's The Cult of Celebrity Relationships video, featuring discussions on age gap relationships, Machine Gun Kelly + Megan Fox, and an interview with Dr. Kate Kurtin on what we're all misunderstanding about parasocial relationships.

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INTERVIEWS
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Written by Mina Le, Ella Gray, and Sophie Carter
Edited by Sophie Carter
Music by Olivia Martinez
Cover by Lindsay Mintz 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, welcome to high route. I'm your host, Mina. And today we're going to be talking about celebrity relationships.

0:22.8

Specifically, this is an extended version of the video that I just posted on Monday. But we're

0:27.7

going to dive a little bit deeper. And the reason this video, this episode even came about

0:34.6

was because of all the Taylor Swift Maddie Healy drama that was happening last month.

0:40.2

And yeah, I referred to him as Matt Healy in my video like Matt without a why because, one, I don't talk about him enough to like have cemented the idea that his name is actually Maddie in my brain.

0:51.8

But also too, it's like, why are you as a grown man named

0:54.4

Maddie? Why? So whatever, for this episode, I will be trying to refer to him as Maddie.

1:00.7

I'm doing, I'm bringing all my brain cells together to refer to him as Maddie.

1:05.3

And if you don't know about this drama, consider yourself blessed and about to ruin that

1:09.4

by telling you all about it.

1:11.5

But basically what was happening is Taylor Swift had this little romantic rendezvous with

1:15.8

Maddie Healy that was confirmed.

1:18.3

It wasn't just a rumor.

1:20.2

And people were really against this because Maddie is someone who is a very controversial

1:26.3

figure.

1:26.9

He's said a lot of crazy things. He's said a lot of crazy things.

1:28.2

He's done a lot of crazy things.

1:30.1

Some of which include kissing fans on stage and mocking Ice Spice for her body and her race.

1:39.1

This is like all recent stuff, by the way.

1:40.6

This is like not like we're digging back into the trenches of 2012 to pull up

1:44.6

receipts. Like he has been making provocative racist statements just for the fun of it as of this

1:52.5

year. And so when Taylor started dating him, people were like, what the hell? Like, why are you

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