May is a busy month for everyone. It’s the kickoff to wedding season and graduation season. It’s a time when everyone has allergies, vacations and (if you’re like me) a ton of work events to go to. 

When you’re Taylor Swift, every month involves a lot of obligations like this. Except the entire world is watching her, every interview with any given celebrity includes a question about her (like this Variety interview with Andrew Scott) and she has a billion dollars. So, for the rest of us, even our busiest months are incomparable to hers. Keep reading to keep up with the most significant Swift-related news to hit the internet in May.

Is Harrison Butker the Smallest Man Who Ever Lived? TikTok Thinks So

Let’s get the negative Swift-related news out of the way: Harrison Butker, the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, quoted the line “familiarity breeds contempt” from Swift’s “Bejeweled” in a speech he made at Benedictine College’s commencement ceremony. However, he completely missed the point of the song as he related it back to the idea that women are meant to be homemakers and therefore, the women graduating that day would not reach their full potential unless they get married and have children. And to make matters worse, when he referenced Swift, he called her “his teammate’s girlfriend.” There were many other offensive remarks in his speech, including some aimed at the LGBTQ+ community.

The speech went viral on social media for essentially being a slap in the face to the women receiving degrees that day (and all women, homemakers or not). On TikTok, several videos circulated comparing an interview Butker had where he said Swift “thinks it’s amazing that I can kick the ball so far through the uprights” to the clip from Barbie in which Barbie tells Ken he’s “very brave” in his “beach” job.

Onto the Fun Stuff: The Eras Tour has Made Its Way to Europe

…and it includes The Tortured Poets Department. As such, the whole set list has changed. To fit the new album, evermore and folklore are performed as one era, and “Long Live” was cut from the Speak Now era, so now “Enchanted” is the only song performed from that album. According to Cosmopolitan, the TTPD era includes “But Daddy I Love Him,” “So High School,” “Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?,” “Down Bad,” “’Fortnight,” “The Smallest Man That’s Ever Lived” and “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart.”

She also changed some of the costumes she wore before. The bodysuit she wears when she opens the show, the blazer she wears during “The Man,” the “Bejeweled” bodysuit, the 1989 bra and skirt set and several of the dresses throughout the show have been replaced with similar outfits, but in different colors. The yellow dress she wears for the combined evermore and folklore set has been replaced, but is essentially the same. Plus, new outfits have been added for the TTPD era, including a dress for “Fortnight.”

The Eras Tour has spiked air travel in Europe

A few months ago, when Swift was in Asia, tourism increased significantly. Now, in Europe, there are reports that the tour caused a 25 percent spike in air travel during the weekend of May 18 as compared to that weekend last year. This is in part due to the fact that tickets for the tour were thousands of dollars cheaper in Europe than in the United States.

And the air travel will only increase as the summer goes on — according to CNN, flights through United to Milan and Munich in July — when Swift will be performing there — are up 45 percent. Delta Airlines also told CNN that they will have their largest-ever international air travel schedule this summer. The rise in travel to Europe for the tour is causing them to add destinations that they no longer flew to as a result of the pandemic. “Swiftonomics” is truly in full force this summer.

Swift copyrighted the phrase “Female Rage: the Musical!”

Similarly to when she copyrighted the phrase “this sick beat” after the line went hard in her song “Shake it Off,” Swift copyrighted “Female Rage: the Musical,” which is what she jokingly refers to TTPD as. She’s already getting some flack for this, as some see it as cringe-worthy, and even saying it contributes to the brand of fake feminism sometimes attributed to her, which focuses more on her reputation than anything else.

This Cosmopolitan article by Kayla Kibbe argues that TTPD contains relatable remnants of female rage — like wanting to crawl out of your own skin because someone who didn’t really love you touched it. I don’t think she lacks legitimate feminism; rather, I believe she’s a musical artist who none of us truly know and can’t expect to live up to our personal expectations. Maybe that’s what some of her female rage is about: being held to a standard of perfection. I’m curious to see what she does with the phrase — once it comes to light, it will surely be part of a future Taypedia news roundup.