
Still, after over a year of thumbing through the app-flipping the dial, catching stray snippets of melody-I’m still periodically surprised by the music it whirls into the spotlight. Thor: Ragnarok premiered November 2017.TikTok can feel repetitive: many creators’ thirst for influence incentivizes them to dance to what’s already popular (ex: yet another Nicki Minaj feature) and chart-toppers like Travis Scott pay big influencers to guarantee another week’s stay in the Top 10. Hiddleston also reprised the role for Thor: Ragnarok - which started filming right around the time he and Swift were confirmed to be dating.īut much to the despair of many, the couple called it quits on their whirlwind romance in September 2016. He made his franchise debut in 2011’s Thor and served as the main antagonist in the first Avengers movie. Hiddleston is of course known for playing Loki in the MCU, the estranged brother of Thor.

Swift and Hiddleston were romantically linked following the singer’s split from DJ Calvin Harris in May of that same year. It’s hard to forget the “Hiddleswift” phenomenon that swept the internet in 2016. Outside of Swift’s unexpected connections to Thor: Love and Thunder, the “All Too Well” singer actually dated one of the franchise’s biggest stars: Tom Hiddleston.

The singer was dating Tom Hiddleston while he filmed ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Robinson gushed over the experience in a sweet tribute Instagram post in 2021, writing, “best adventure of my life.” The Taylor Swift meme that inspired the screaming goats in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ “I just wrote a song based on something she made, which she made while listening to something I made, which is the most meta thing that’s ever happened to me,” she said on Elvis Duran’s morning radio show (via Billboard).įlash-forward to today, and Robinson is credited as a co-writer for Thor: Love and Thunder alongside Waititi. I found the most comfort in “Clean,” a song about rebirth after love lost. “In the fall of 2014 when I was a certifiable basket case wandering around LA in pajamas heartbroken over the boy I’d left behind in New York, 1989 was there like a best friend with a bottle of tequila and a bear hug. Ebbing and flowing through life a musical North Star in her catalog,” Robinson wrote on Instagram. “I’ve been listening to Taylor’s music since her very first album. Funnily enough, Someone Great writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson said the film wouldn’t have happened without Taylor Swift’s album 1989. Outside of Waititi, Swift already had a surprising connection to T hor: Love and Thunder - years before it was even announced.īack in 2019, Swift revealed Netflix rom-com Someone Great inspired the Lover track “Death by a Thousand Cuts,” according to Billboard. Taylor Swift’s surprising connection to ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Taylor Swift | Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Director Taika Waititi recently opened up about the inspiration behind the scene-stealing screaming goats featured in the film - and their connection to Taylor Swift.

While people might not exactly associate Taylor Swift with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it turns out one of her songs inspired a hilarious gag in Thor: Love and Thunder.
