Philadelphia newscasterSheila Watkohas delivered another hilarious, pop-culture-themed viral traffic report!
Hours afterTaylor Swift’sMidnightswas released in the earliest minutes of Friday morning, the NBC10 reporter gave viewers alocal traffic updatecomplete with a flurry of references to the superstar musician’s latest album.
“Lets start down the shore,” said Watko, 32, at the start of the segment — before packing 19 of the album’s 20 song titles into her report. “Right now there’s no ‘Snow on the Beach,’ also no traffic on the Garden State Parkway. So that’s the good news. Unfortunately, I do also have to bring you the bad news, that’s kind of ‘The Great War’ of working in the traffic center — I’m the traffic ‘Anti-Hero.'”
Taylor Swift and Sheila Watko.NBC, Amy Sussman/Getty
She then warned viewers of construction delays on a popular interstate highway and said, “Make sure to give yourself a little extra time, you don’t want to be thinking, ‘Ugh, ‘Would’ve Could’ve, Should’ve’ left a little earlier and avoided getting stuck in this backup.”
She added, “But this map is very fickle. After 6 o’clock, we’re gonna get a lot of ‘High Infidelity,’ gonna see a lot more red on this map … Right now, a camera shot like this, looking clear, that just ‘Hits Different.’ It looks great. But give this about 20 minutes, delays are gonna be ‘Bigger Than the [Whole] Sky.’ This map is gonna be looking so red, it’ll almost be ‘Maroon.'”
Taylor Swift.Beth Garrabrant
“‘Dear Reader’ — or, viewer, please give yourself extra time to find parking,” she cleverly said before throwing in a “Vigilante S—” reference and concluding with a direct reference to the elephant in the room: “There’s no ‘Question…?’ that it’s red October. However, I am in a ‘Lavender Haze’ today because the ‘Mastermind’Taylor Swift, she releasedMidnights!”
She’s also previously delivered multiplePhiladelphia Phillies-themedreports, oneusing Jason Derulo’s song titlesin July and another Swiftian one to celebrate the release ofRed (Taylor’s Version)last year.
Alongside a viraltweetfeaturing theMidnights-themed clip, one fan wrote, “she did it again, my biggest idol.”
source: people.com
