Eric the Blue

I understand Taylor and Travis are hitched. I have an online subscription to the NYT and can tell you: that organ of journalism is on the case. I’m the better for it, as I now know that Cornelia Street is in Greenwich Village, not London, as for some reason I had supposed. Maybe it’s because on the Lover album “Cornelia Street” is separated from “London Boy” only by “Death from a Thousand Cuts,” so I’ve heard those songs together on the same short car trips when traveling with my roommates. Through osmosis, I know a fair amount about TS, and, like a lot of people less than half my age, feel a connection with her. In my case, it’s largely on account of the lyrical opening to one of her . . . I think the kids say “bangers”?

The moon is high
Like your friends were on the night that we first met
Went home and tried to stalk you on the internet
Now I've read all the books beside your bed

She’s way too rich and famous to qualify as a dweeb, but a worldview that includes the notion that reading the books that a love interest likes is a good way to get to know them? Whoa! She was meant for me, not a football player. Will sign the prenup.

Here’s the music video of said banger, “Paper Rings”:

According to the refrain, she likes shiny things, but would marry him with paper rings–another case of life not imitating art, assuming the Times’s coverage to be moderately accurate.