All of them have a great responsibility to put feuding aside and to unite behind the new leader, whether he was their individual choice or not.
And yet, even as Swift is rubbing elbows with Justin Timberlake and allegedly feuding with Katy Perry, country music is working its hardest to reel her back in.
This tension was at the heart of some fierce feuding within Ukip over the last few weeks that turned into an attempted coup on Farage's leadership.
If the professional photographer noticed us feuding in the corner he certainly didn't capture the conflict, but maybe it should be acknowledged.
Revealing herself as a fan of the HBO series in an interview with Guardian Australia, the prime minister said she had been drawn into George RR Martin's mythical medieval-like world, in which feuding fiefdoms do battle in pursuit of power.
Plus, there is a touch of The Jeremy Kyle Show about the burly security guards in black bomber jackets who keep feuding bargain seekers apart, not least a chap called "Heavy D" who insists on saying "Boom!" at the end of every sentence.
When Len McCluskey of the giant Unite trade union weighed into Ed Miliband and Ed Balls over their modest recalibration of Labour's economic policy he was embracing a fine old tradition which has existed for most of the century of their co-existence: feuding in public between Labour and the TUC.
And his failure to effect anything like the New Labour makeover, as signalled by the Tories' enduring feuding over the European Union and other right-wing shibboleths, is all the more conspicuous for it.
But for all his linguistic and diplomatic skills, attempts to herd the feuding foreign representatives of the captive nations towards agreement proved futile.Not a patch on himSo the lanky, mischievous New Englander leapt at a chance to help in a different way: to organise the translation into Russian of the world's best books, and to distribute them to people who yearned to read them.
Either way, Syria looks increasingly likely to fall prey to feuding warlords, Islamists and gangs a new Somalia rotting in the heart of the Levant.In this section The death of a country Getting Ugly The great experiment Bin it The real star war ReprintsIf that happens, millions of lives will be ruined.
This feast, of soup and sea bass, followed weeks of feuding between the two neighbours, both key American allies in the war on terror.
