"Twenty twenty-five saw Donald Trump up to his old tricks, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce step up their romance and Katy Perry leave the planet after years of threatening a coup, 2025 was the year pop culture finally took over. It stormed the corridors of power, like Mariah Carey running in kitten heels through a perfume ad, and ordered its own ascension from "distraction from the news" to "very much the news itself"."
"Its executive orders were things like "send Katy Perry and her daisies into space"."
"And it conveyed to Catherine Connolly the warmest of congratulations on her keepie uppies."
In 2025 pop culture displaced conventional political priorities and became a central force in public life. Celebrity actions, spectacles and narratives redirected media attention and redefined what constituted headline news. Donald Trump resumed familiar political maneuvers while high-profile relationships, notably Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, gained intensified cultural prominence. The year featured theatrical publicity moves, including a space stunt involving Katy Perry and symbolic imagery likening pop ascent to power. Performative gestures and celebrity-driven events functioned as public rituals that eclipsed traditional policymaking in shaping national conversation and spectacle.
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