The haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate! First
Bette Midler
dissed
Ariana Grande
, then
Joni Mitchell dissed
Taylor Swift
! In
April 2012 , it was reported that the “Blank Space” singer was in talks to portray the folk legend in the big-screen adaptation of
Girls Like Us , a book focusing on the impact of
Carole King , Mitchell and
Carly
Simon . Swift was never officially offered the role, and as the pop singer told
Time that year, “The thing about movies that I’ve learned is—I’ve been reading scripts for five years, and you just don’t know what ones are going to get greenlit and which ones aren’t, so I can’t talk about it unless it’s the real thing.”