A Little Self-reference Via Taylor Swift (...and others)

A substitute today for the usual "Chill Friday" offering...
I keep on-hand a folder of odd miscellany to occasionally pull posts from… including, for example, this today:

Long time readers here know I’m interested in self-reference and recursion, so for today's entertainment (if you’re a Taylor Swift fan), a favorite tidbit harking back to 2012 when Taylor Swift’s song “Mean” won the Grammy Award for “Best Country Song” of the year. For any who were vacationing on the pseudo-planet Pluto for all of 2012 and don’t know the backstory, “Mean” was a li’l ditty off Taylor’s award winning “Speak Now” album that wasn’t originally intended as a single release, but grew popular as an anthem for young people battling bullying at the time, and was released to great demand.

Swift wrote the song as a rebuke to a particular critic who bashed her singing time and time again, predicting she'd rapidly fade from stardom. Swift admitted such criticisms hurt, and as she often does, wrote a song striking back… little realizing the song would take on a life of its own, in a sense, proving the critic wrong, by its very overwhelming popularity and reception.

So, in short, Taylor writes a simple song to vent about a specific critic, the song gets released as a single, shoots up the charts, is nominated as a Grammy “Song-of-the-Year,” and then actually wins the award… sort of like sticking a knife in the back of a personal nemesis and twisting it again and again… and, yeah, again. 

But as if that’s not enough, at the Grammy ceremonies singers (and their bands) perform their nominated songs. Two lines from the chorus of "Mean" repeat several times through the lyrics as follows:

“Someday I'll be living in a big old city

And all you're ever gonna be is mean”

Near the end of their Grammy performance, with those two lines approaching yet one more time, without missing a beat, Taylor made a small one-time alteration to them:

“Someday, I’ll be singing this at the Grammys

And all you’re ever gonna be is mean”

It was a simple, delicious self-reflexive moment in pop culture I’ve always relished (everyone else has probably forgotten), and well-appreciated by the audience of performers at the time (who weren’t too fond of critics themselves)... Normal song version at top of post, tweaked Grammy version here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SDXBz-T4HE

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...and a couple of recursive add-ons:

1)  First, from George Carlin this quote I just read a couple of days ago for the first time:
 "For years and years and years, I thought my brain was the most important organ of my body, until one day I thought, hmmm, look who's telling me that!"

2)  ...and just yesterday I spied this bumper sticker on the car in front of me: