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Chloe Stillwell

Taylor Swift is caught up in the 'Where The Crawdads Sing' controversy

Taylor Swift certainly didn’t see her latest musical endeavor garnering this sort of controversy. The “All Too Well” singer announced via her Instagram on Thursday that she recorded the theme music for the highly anticipated film adaptation of the bestselling 2018 book Where The Crawdads Sing, stating, “I wanted to create something haunting and ethereal to match this mesmerizing story.” But it didn’t take sleuth-y Swifties very long to bring up the complex and upsetting unresolved drama involving the book’s author Delia Owens, her former husband Mark, and his son Christopher. While acting as conservationists in Zambia, Mark and Christopher were accused of being involved in the murder and cover-up of an unidentified poacher. So while pop culture buzz has been reviving the Crawdads tale, a decades-old crime in Africa is resurfacing.

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