There are many reasons why people feel uncomfortable turning down invites to social events. We crave connection, fear missing out on a good time and assume we’re hurting other people’s feelings by saying no. But sometimes, turning someone down is unavoidable, and saying yes to everything can lead to burnout.
There’s also the problem of attending things just because you feel obligated. Then, you wind up having a bad night when you could have stayed home and watched TV or read a book.
A recent study found that 77% of people confessed to accepting an invitation to an event they didn’t want to attend because they were nervous that they’d upset the person who invited them. The good news is that the same study found that people are a lot less bothered when we say no to them than we assume.
So now you can feel less guilty about avoiding social events you don’t want to attend whether it’s a family function, work happy hour a birthday party for some kid that your child hardly knows.
A recent study published by the American Psychological Association experimented on over 2,00 participants to find out how people feel after being rejected.
Researchers discovered that when participants imagined refusing a friend’s invitation, they often thought it would immediately harm their relationship. They believed their friend might feel upset, disappointed and hesitant to invite them again. Those who envisioned rejecting the invitation were more inclined to think their friend would dwell on the refusal rather than understanding the decision-making process behind it.
However, researchers found that wasn’t the case.
“Across our experiments, we consistently found that invitees overestimate the negative ramifications that arise in the eyes of inviters following an invitation decline,” Julian Givi, PhD, an assistant professor at West Virginia University, told the American Psychological Association. “People tend to exaggerate the degree to which the person who issued the invitation will focus on the act of the invitee declining the invitation as opposed to the thoughts that passed through their head before they declined.”
The researchers performed a similar study with couples and, once again, found that those who turned down the invite thought their partner would be more upset than they actually were.
“While there have been times when I have felt a little upset with someone who declined an invitation, our research gives us quite a bit of good reason to predict people overestimate the negative ramifications for our relationships,” Givi said.
Givi also says people should feel okay about declining invitations when busy, to avoid psychological burnout.
“Burnout is a real thing, especially around the holidays when we are often invited to too many events,” he said. “Don’t be afraid to turn down invitations here and there. But, keep in mind that spending time with others is how relationships develop, so don’t decline every invitation.”
This study should be good news to all the people-pleasers out there who often go to social engagements because they don’t they don’t want to hurt other people’s feelings. It’s also great news for those who feel a tremendous sense of guilt every time they turn down an invite.
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There are many reasons why people feel uncomfortable turning down invites to social events. We crave connection, fear missing out on a good time and assume we’re hurting other people’s feelings by saying no. But sometimes, turning someone down is unavoidable, and saying yes to everything can lead to burnout.
There’s also the problem of attending things just because you feel obligated. Then, you wind up having a bad night when you could have stayed home and watched TV or read a book.
A recent study found that 77% of people confessed to accepting an invitation to an event they didn’t want to attend because they were nervous that they’d upset the person who invited them. The good news is that the same study found that people are a lot less bothered when we say no to them than we assume.
So now you can feel less guilty about avoiding social events you don’t want to attend whether it’s a family function, work happy hour a birthday party for some kid that your child hardly knows.
A recent study published by the American Psychological Association experimented on over 2,00 participants to find out how people feel after being rejected.
Researchers discovered that when participants imagined refusing a friend’s invitation, they often thought it would immediately harm their relationship. They believed their friend might feel upset, disappointed and hesitant to invite them again. Those who envisioned rejecting the invitation were more inclined to think their friend would dwell on the refusal rather than understanding the decision-making process behind it.
However, researchers found that wasn’t the case.
“Across our experiments, we consistently found that invitees overestimate the negative ramifications that arise in the eyes of inviters following an invitation decline,” Julian Givi, PhD, an assistant professor at West Virginia University, told the American Psychological Association. “People tend to exaggerate the degree to which the person who issued the invitation will focus on the act of the invitee declining the invitation as opposed to the thoughts that passed through their head before they declined.”
The researchers performed a similar study with couples and, once again, found that those who turned down the invite thought their partner would be more upset than they actually were.
“While there have been times when I have felt a little upset with someone who declined an invitation, our research gives us quite a bit of good reason to predict people overestimate the negative ramifications for our relationships,” Givi said.
Givi also says people should feel okay about declining invitations when busy, to avoid psychological burnout.
“Burnout is a real thing, especially around the holidays when we are often invited to too many events,” he said. “Don’t be afraid to turn down invitations here and there. But, keep in mind that spending time with others is how relationships develop, so don’t decline every invitation.”
This study should be good news to all the people-pleasers out there who often go to social engagements because they don’t they don’t want to hurt other people’s feelings. It’s also great news for those who feel a tremendous sense of guilt every time they turn down an invite.
One of the weirdest parts of being human is how none of us really knows what’s happening in another person’s head or how other people act when they’re by themselves. We often wonder if we’re the only ones whose brains work a certain way or if other people go through the same mental or emotional obstacle courses we do when performing certain tasks.
When you live with someone who deals with mental/emotional challenges like anxiety or someone who lives life with neurodivergence, you see a bit more of people’s behind-the-scenes reality. But even then, there are things we don’t fully see because they’re happening internally.
One autistic woman, however, has offered an insider look into her internal processing in a video showing her ordering room service at a hotel for the first time.
Paige Layle is a Canadian woman who shares various aspects of her life on social media to raise awareness and advocate acceptance for autism and ADHD. In a TikTok video that’s been viewed 4 million times in one day, she explained that she was at a hotel and wanted to order breakfast, then walked viewers through her whole process of anxiously preparing, actually making the phone call and her emotional relief after the fact.
People who don’t struggle with the uncertainty of a phone call, even a basic one like ordering room service, may wonder what all the fuss is about. But people on the spectrum and people who struggle with social anxiety or anxiety about making phone calls will likely recognize themselves in this video.
calling for room service for the first time 🙈😅 #actuallyautistic #autism #paigelayle #foryou
The rehearsing what you’re going to say as well as what the other person will probably say, the silent freakout upon actually pushing the button, the sudden shift into “totally normal person” mode once the phone call commences, the adrenaline explosion after hanging up, the shaking out of the excess nervous energy, the “that was okay, but awful” sentiment—it’s all so familiar to so many people, whether they’re dealing with autism, ADHD, anxiety or some combination of them all.
But the person on the other end of the phone would never have guessed this was happening behind the scenes. Paige even handled the unexpected coffee addition with zero issue. Knowing that unexpected things might come up in a conversation is what creates anxiety about phone calls like this, so the fact that she didn’t skip a beat when the dialogue diverged from what she’d planned out in her head was genuinely impressive.
Some people might wonder about her “and no one’s mad at me or anything” remark, but that’s not an unusual concern for people on the autism spectrum as well as people with ADHD and others who might experience rejection sensitive dysphoria.
People in the comments commiserated with Paige while cheering her on.
“I’ve only ordered room service ONCE and this was the EXACT experience. I earned that French toast,” shared one commenter.
“You did amazing!!!! I’ve actually never ordered room service because I hate phone calls… too much anxiety!” wrote another.
“The progression from ‘anticipatory panic’ to ‘perfect execution’ and finally ‘post-mental breakdown’ was so real lol i relate,” shared another.
“The way you did it perfectly but wrapped that in panic is me everyday,” wrote another.
And that’s really the crux of it. So many people struggle mightily internally while successfully doing everyday things, with no one on the outside ever knowing the mental and emotional journey it took for them to do those “normal” things. Hopefully, videos like this will help us all give a little more grace and understand why people might be more exhausted or less willing to do things than it seems like they should be. When it’s this much work to order a yogurt, imagine how much energy it takes to do other things. This is where a little awareness and empathy can go a long way toward acceptance and understanding.
One of the weirdest parts of being human is how none of us really knows what’s happening in another person’s head or how other people act when they’re by themselves. We often wonder if we’re the only ones whose brains work a certain way or if other people go through the same mental or emotional obstacle courses we do when performing certain tasks.
When you live with someone who deals with mental/emotional challenges like anxiety or someone who lives life with neurodivergence, you see a bit more of people’s behind-the-scenes reality. But even then, there are things we don’t fully see because they’re happening internally.
One autistic woman, however, has offered an insider look into her internal processing in a video showing her ordering room service at a hotel for the first time.
Paige Layle is a Canadian woman who shares various aspects of her life on social media to raise awareness and advocate acceptance for autism and ADHD. In a TikTok video that’s been viewed 4 million times in one day, she explained that she was at a hotel and wanted to order breakfast, then walked viewers through her whole process of anxiously preparing, actually making the phone call and her emotional relief after the fact.
People who don’t struggle with the uncertainty of a phone call, even a basic one like ordering room service, may wonder what all the fuss is about. But people on the spectrum and people who struggle with social anxiety or anxiety about making phone calls will likely recognize themselves in this video.
calling for room service for the first time 🙈😅 #actuallyautistic #autism #paigelayle #foryou
The rehearsing what you’re going to say as well as what the other person will probably say, the silent freakout upon actually pushing the button, the sudden shift into “totally normal person” mode once the phone call commences, the adrenaline explosion after hanging up, the shaking out of the excess nervous energy, the “that was okay, but awful” sentiment—it’s all so familiar to so many people, whether they’re dealing with autism, ADHD, anxiety or some combination of them all.
But the person on the other end of the phone would never have guessed this was happening behind the scenes. Paige even handled the unexpected coffee addition with zero issue. Knowing that unexpected things might come up in a conversation is what creates anxiety about phone calls like this, so the fact that she didn’t skip a beat when the dialogue diverged from what she’d planned out in her head was genuinely impressive.
Some people might wonder about her “and no one’s mad at me or anything” remark, but that’s not an unusual concern for people on the autism spectrum as well as people with ADHD and others who might experience rejection sensitive dysphoria.
People in the comments commiserated with Paige while cheering her on.
“I’ve only ordered room service ONCE and this was the EXACT experience. I earned that French toast,” shared one commenter.
“You did amazing!!!! I’ve actually never ordered room service because I hate phone calls… too much anxiety!” wrote another.
“The progression from ‘anticipatory panic’ to ‘perfect execution’ and finally ‘post-mental breakdown’ was so real lol i relate,” shared another.
“The way you did it perfectly but wrapped that in panic is me everyday,” wrote another.
And that’s really the crux of it. So many people struggle mightily internally while successfully doing everyday things, with no one on the outside ever knowing the mental and emotional journey it took for them to do those “normal” things. Hopefully, videos like this will help us all give a little more grace and understand why people might be more exhausted or less willing to do things than it seems like they should be. When it’s this much work to order a yogurt, imagine how much energy it takes to do other things. This is where a little awareness and empathy can go a long way toward acceptance and understanding.
Ahhh, siblings. Sometimes they’re your best friends and other times your living room turns into an MMA octagon over the remote control. If you grew up with brothers and sisters, it’s hard to imagine what it would be like to be an only child. (That’s not to say you didn’t dream about it when your sister stole your favorite shirt for the 30th time.)
But not everyone has siblings, so it can be equally as hard for someone who grew up as an only child to picture what it would be like to have them. Only children also likely had moments where they dreamt of having a little brother or sister, not realizing the literal torment siblings can inflict on each other.
TikTok creator Lonnie IIV recently posted a video of himself with two other friends seemingly out to lunch, when the girl in the group asked what it was like to grow up with siblings. In less than a minute she realized she lucked out being an only child because her two guy friends gave her a crash course in sibling behavior.
In the clip, Lonnie asked if she wanted her drink but then promptly told her she didn’t want it before swirling his fingers around in her cup. This prompted the other friend to throw his balled-up straw paper at her before repeatedly dipping chopsticks into her soup. The woman just laughed and looked seemingly confused at the nonsense her guy friends were displaying. Of course, no sibling experience would be complete without the classic “stop touching me” added for a little pizzazz.
“She got an entire childhood in less than a minute,” one user wrote.
A different user said, “This is so accurate.”
Other commenters started sharing the things they did to their siblings or vice versa. The comment thread was full of childhood sibling…nostalgia? Seems weird to look back on those memories with fondness, yet here we are.
Honestly, my brother used to ask if he could have a bite of my food, and when I said no, he would just lick it before asking again. In turn, when my brothers wouldn’t let me play video games with them, I would pinch my arm until it turned red and run out of the room crying to tell my mom they hit me.
Kids are weird sometimes and thankfully there are usually doses of love in between. But if you grew up with siblings, you’ll likely appreciate the video below. Or it’ll give you flashbacks. It’s a toss-up. If you don’t have siblings, you may feel the need to have us evaluated. We turned out alright…mostly.
If you go on a reality show and compete in children’s games against 400 others, endure weeks without chapstick, and end up winning, you deserve all of that money. Well, most of it. $4.56 million is a lot. But you should at least get some of that, since that’s the whole point of winning a game show.
The finale of Squid Game: The Challengedropped on Netflix last week and 55-year-old Mai Whelan from Virginia was named the first champion of the game show, based on the wildly popular series. Whelan stunned fans by admitting that she hadn’t received her winnings as of the finale’s airing. The series was filmed in January, so there were a lot of times over the last year when she probably thought “Hey it would be cool to have my millions now.”
Even though she hadn’t received her money, Whelan knew that it would take some time. According to TMZ, the players signed a contract that confirmed they would not receive their winnings until 30 days after the finale airs. This means that Whelan won’t get her millions until January, and she has to be a non-millionaire like the rest of us for the next month.
What will she do with the money? Whelan told Today that she was considering getting a boat, which seems safer than the actual game show anyway. If you want your shot at that $4.56 million, feel free to audition for the series! You won’t get your money for a few years, though.
It’s surprising that Sean Durkin, now, with The Iron Claw, has only made three feature films. After the success of 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, it’s really surprising it wouldn’t be until 2020 until Durkin returned with The Nest (a film that premiered at Sundance in 2020 to good reviews, then got a little lost in the shuffle because of the way that year went.) In fact, I just assumed I had missed a couple of his movies. It turns out I have not, I have seen them all. As he explains, a Janis Joplin movie fell through at the last minute, followed by an adaptation of Little House on the Prairie that also fell through. Did he think the same would happen to his passion project that he spent writing for the last seven years, The Iron Claw?
The Iron Claw is about the Von Erich wrestling family. (Zac Efron plays the oldest brother, Kevin Von Erich.) As Durkin says, he doesn’t want this movie to be about tragedy, but, unfortunately, that’s a little hard to avoid in this case. Usually, a movie will add in some dramatic moments, you know, “dramatic license.” But The Iron Claw does something unusual: it actually removes some dramatic moments because it’s just too much for one movie. In this case, the part removed is the suicide of Chris Von Erich, the youngest of the brothers. As Durkin says ahead, it’s the most difficult decision he’s ever made as a writer. And ahead he explains why and how he came to that decision.
Somehow The Iron Claw is only your second movie since Martha Marcy May Marlene back in 2011…
I made a TV show that was a pretty big undertaking in there, an English show called Southcliffe. It was a four-part series, which took a couple of years. Then I had a bunch of stuff fall apart. I worked on a Janis Joplin film for years that fell apart very late. We were really close to making it. I worked on a studio film, an adaptation of Little House on the Prairie, that was really close to being made at one point. So I had a couple of big things fall out in between Martha and The Nest. Then, also, some of it’s just writing. It’s like I could probably spend at least five years on a script, and Iron Claw was probably seven years on the script.
So you have a Janis Joplin film that falls through at the last minute and you have a Little House on the Prairie that falls through. Were you worried that would also happen with The Iron Claw?
For sure. Yeah. I think I’ve felt that about every movie I’ve ever made. It’s all quite precarious. Also, even with the movies I’ve made, I’ve had moments where it was going to get made and then something went wrong and then you go down for a while and try to get it back up. I think when you’re trying to make work that’s a bit different or challenging in some ways, this is all a really, really normal part of the process.
I think you’re the only person I’ve ever spoken to who is such a die-hard Von Erich Family fan and isn’t from Texas. You are from nowhere near Texas.
It’s really funny. When we had the premiere in Dallas – and not just there – I had a handful of people come up to me and just assume that I’m from Texas. At the premiere, these guys came up to me and they’re like, “I can’t believe you grew up in Denton. We grew up in Denton.” It’s like, “That house party, did you shoot that in Denton?” I’m like, “Nope, I’ve only been to Denton for a day. Sorry, guys.” It turns out that a college house party in upstate New York is just like a college house party in Denton.
When I was a kid I watched WWF Saturday Night Main Event and that kind of stuff, but I had friends that were hardcore who were like, “No, no, no, no, if you want real wrestling this is who you watch,” and they had the magazines with wrestlers with blood on their faces…
That was me. That was me.
Only you’re not from Texas. Or the United States. So how does this happen? How do you even know who these people are?
So I was watching WWF, but it just wasn’t enough. I wanted more. I was watching WCW as well. And then getting magazines, and then NWA, and then getting into finding everything I could. So I’d find old VHS tapes of NWA matches and just ultimately got to the Sportatorium at some point. Just that image of the Sportatorium and knowing that it was on TV on Saturday nights late, yeah, there’s just this whole thing. There was a purity to it. It was a bit harder. It was a bit dirtier. Just seeing Kevin Von Erich flying off the top rope barefoot and the three brothers together, they just grabbed me. Then, also, I think a big part of it, too, was just I was seeing Kerry live in the WWF at the same time as I was discovering their family. Then I remember the day that I found out he died, and it really haunted me. I felt sad and quite connected to it.
All the regional wrestling organizations at the time were pretty confusing. How much did you want to explain that in the movie?
It was a really tricky line because, as a wrestling fan, you want to just show some of the details. You want to bask in those belts a little bit. But from a storytelling perspective, if you start to give too much of that, you never want the audience asking the wrong questions. You never want them distracted to the point where they’re like, “Well, what does that mean, or what does that mean?” So it’s just a really a bit by bit process of how much to include so that fans of wrestling can enjoy it, but not too much where people who are not wrestling fans are too confused.
I do want to ask about Chris Von Erich, who isn’t in the movie, but also died tragically. I do understand from a narrative standpoint why you couldn’t include him, but how much did you struggle with that?
So much.
Because this movie’s going to be the legacy of that family. And for a lot of people, this is going to be their only entryway into that. I don’t know how you balance making a good movie versus people who won’t know about Chris.
It’s really difficult. I’ve never had a more difficult decision to make as a writer. I care so deeply, so it was painful. But you have to make tough decisions and you have to do what’s best to get the film made. I wrote this script for seven years and Chris was in it for a long time. So there was a point where it became clear that if you separate yourself from the emotional connection to the family and to real life, you have to separate and say, okay, well, this is a movie, these are characters, and the movie just cannot withstand another death at that point in the movie.
It became that simple, which is so difficult from a human level, and that was what you grapple with. But from a storytelling perspective, it was right because the film, it wasn’t about just the grief. It wasn’t about the loss. It’s about the absence of grief and the resurrection and how Kevin gets through it. Also, just the nature of their deaths were very similar – all three brothers who committed suicide. So Chris made it into the film in the sense that the character of Mike is a combination of Mike and Chris in some ways.
Right. Because in real life, Mike’s kind of a big guy, but in this movie he’s smaller, like Chris.
Yeah, yeah. And Mike was an incredible athlete as well. He wasn’t great in the ring, but he was an athlete. So there was just a bit more of that with Chris.
When you told Kevin that you had to cut Chris from the movie, how did he react?
So it’s funny, one of the reasons I didn’t reach out to Kevin too soon was because I knew I had to make difficult decisions. Coming into it as a fan, I love the guy. So I didn’t want to meet him and love him even more, which is what would’ve happened, because you need to keep some distance and you need to do what’s best for the film. So I didn’t reach out to him until I knew what film I was making. At that point, I had made the decision about Chris, and there was other stuff, too. David had a daughter that died. Kerry had a family. There’s a lot of things that we had to take out to fit it into telling a story in a film.
So I started talking to Kevin when we were in prep and had an ongoing conversation while we were shooting and told him about the story, told him what we were focusing on, and we had a really good communication. Then, finally, the week before showing him the movie, we did a big family Zoom. I’d talked to a lot of them individually, but it was like me and their whole family got together and we Zoomed. I wanted to tell them, okay, these are some of the hardest decisions I made, and this is why. I told him about Chris. And just immediately, Kevin was like, “That makes sense.”
I think how Kevin feels is Kevin survived and he hoped that this movie was going to be about the love of brothers and survival. The message that he lives by is that no matter what, even on your darkest day, you keep fighting, life is worth it. That’s what he talks about a lot. I think he just hoped the movie would be that. So when I told him about Chris and some of the other cuts, he was just totally supportive. He was like, “Yeah, absolutely, it seems like the right choice,” which was a huge relief because I spent a really long time fretting that conversation.
If he would have disagreed did he have any power to stop it?
No. No. I just did my best to communicate with them and build the relationship and talk them through everything. Yeah, we’ve become quite close.
When writing this, you had so much to work with, did you ever consider making it a series?
Definitely. The writing process is long. And as you’re writing it you are aware of what’s getting made, what isn’t getting made, and you explore ideas. It’s like, do we transition? Do we try to look at a limited series or something? But, ultimately, I think when I started writing this I felt like it was a movie. I don’t know why. Sometimes I just feel that.
Television was still pretty daring at that point. By the time the conversation came up a couple of years later about whether should we pivot to TV, I was just like, no, television is not a place where interesting things can be explored in an honest way. The balance has tipped back where I feel like television, it’s so bogged down in executives in fear of their jobs as opposed to executives excited by the possibility of how challenging something could be. I feel like, for a while, movies were that and television was this place where you could really explore and do something challenging, and now the balance is back in the film world. I just don’t think that anyone would’ve made this as an interesting series.
What did you learn making this that surprised even you? I didn’t know about Kerry’s foot.
Well, I guess when I first started, I only knew a few of the highlights, things that I remembered as a kid, and so I learned it all, I guess. Somehow, I did know about Kerry’s foot. I don’t know why or how. But, yeah, I kind of learned it all at once. I have this great researcher I work with and we put together this timeline pretty quickly of everything we could find. So we had the wrestling timelines and the family timelines. It’s just this epic family story. So it was learning everything at once almost and then the difficult things, like what to include.
Kerry’s time in the WWF is almost its own tragic story…
Yeah, I think his drug use got pretty bad, and I think he had some DUIs. I think he was actually facing some jail time maybe. The horrible thing about his amputation is the way that everyone responded to it, which was to hide it and to not…
Embrace it.
Embrace it. But the wrestling world at the time, there was too much stigma around it. Then that’s something I was really interested in from the beginning. These horrible, toxic masculine values that just aren’t accepting of people as they are and tries to just put them into a box and that box crushes people. I think that’s the real tragedy for Kerry. It’s the response that he got to that and having to hide it and then deal with that pain that he was in with drugs and whatnot.
Men are famously from Mars. Women? You know they’re from Venus. But everyone agrees on Reacher: good show! The Amazon Prime Video series, now in its second season, has broken all kinds of viewership records for the streaming service. Star Alan Ritchson, who is 6′ 3″ going on nine feet tall, broke down the show’s success in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
“Fans of Reacher approach me all the time and I always ask what it is that they love,” he said. “Women tell me they love the fight scenes and action sequences, and guys say they love the mystery and trying to figure it out before Reacher does. There’s something for everyone to love, and there’s really no demographic — it’s all creeds, races, genders, ages. It invites everyone in who just wants to have a good time and watch a fun story.”
Not to be all ’90s comedian pointing out gender stereotypes (although I did already make a Mars/Venus reference…), but it’s very funny that guys are “trying to figure it out” before the main character does. It’s like those polls where 58 percent of men think they could beat a goose in a fight, compared to only 32 percent for women. Let Reacher do his thing, fellas. Also, don’t fight a goose. You’re going to lose.
Kanye West goes off for 10 mins name dropping Jay-Z, Drake, Travis Scott, Balenciaga and Addias to name a few then says everyone in the room with him is fake stream ended when he kicked YesJulz out the room (she was recording) safe to say vultures is scrapped. pic.twitter.com/kFchoDdbRV
This was courtesy of influencer/event promoter YesJulz, who got a front-row seat to shove her camera phone in Kanye’s face and broadcast the whole thing via Instagram Live — at least, until he asked for her to be removed. She was promptly kicked out of the “event,” although she later insisted that she wasn’t kicked out as she walked back to her hotel.
YesJulz went on IG to say she didn’t get kicked out when we clearly saw Kanye say she gotta go. This is why it’s important to spread facts not rumors or misguided information. If she didn’t get kicked out why the live cut off and she gone? The session over? Nah. Take the L pic.twitter.com/kwFPVfoXcl
So why was she kicked out? Toward the end of the clip, Julz can be heard saying something indistinct to someone next to her, but it catches Kanye’s attention. It sounds like a security tells her “don’t say sh*t right now,” then as she responds, she seemingly interrupts Kanye’s rant again, after which he tells her to “take it out” and she shuffled away by the guard as the stream shuts off.
Perhaps Kanye didn’t want to be interrupted mid-stream — his thoughts seem disjointed enough already — or maybe whatever she said upset him, but it doesn’t seem as though he was bothered by her streaming — or how it would be perceived. Still, though, it has to be disappointing to Kanye fans that this was all they got after months of waiting for new music.
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