26 Photos Taken Seconds Before Iconic Moments In Pop Culture

1. This video Olivia Rodrigo shared to her TikTok of her swinging moments before…

They got the shot for her “You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love” album cover:

2. Speaking of Olivia, there are also these behind-the-scenes photos of her riiiight before they got the shot for…

The cover for her debut album, Sour. Fun fact: Before they landed on the stickers, she tried shooting the cover similarly, but with a bare face:

3. These texts, allegedly from Charli XCX, are about the ideas for the cover for her latest album, Brat…

Which gave us the iconic green, text-only cover:

4. Here’s Ariana Grande seconds before they got the shot…

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For the album cover of her Eternal Sunshine deluxe album, Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead:

5. This 2015 photo of Demi Lovato at the Palladium Theatre in London…

Was snapped moments before Poot Lovato was officially birthed:

6. Jenny Han — author and co-showrunner of The Summer I Turned Pretty — shared this video of Christopher Briney handwriting Conrad’s emotional letter to Belly…

Which, of course, was in the unforgettable series finale episode of the show:

7. This mirror selfie Dua Lipa snapped right before…

Posing for the album cover art for Future Nostalgia:

8. This photo snapped at what Courtney Cox called “The Last Supper” right before…

The cast filmed the series finale of Friends:

9. Here’s Natalie Portman writing “whore” on the mirror in red lipstick…

Which is a behind-the-scenes look at this Black Swan scene:

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10. Here’s what it looked like behind the scenes of the Beatles’ photoshoot, moments before…

They captured the album cover for their eighth studio album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, in 1967:

11. This photo that was snapped of Adele and Mary J. Blige at the 2022 NBA All-Star Game moments before…

The cameras zoomed in on Adele and she was not having it, creating this beloved reaction video:

12. Shared by Lana Del Rey’s hairstylist, Lana’s sister snapped this photo of her right before…

Her Lust For Life album cover was shot:

13. Here’s some screenshots from just before they got the shot for Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft album cover…

Which, fun fact!, she photographed practically, using weights on her ankles and waist to keep her underwater so they could snap the picture:

14. Here’s a shot of Alfred Hitchcock directing Janet Leigh in Psycho…

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Before the iconic shower scene:

15. Zara Larsson shared these outtakes and behind-the-scenes photos taken riiiiight before…

She struck the pose for her iconic Midnight Sun album cover:

16. This shot of Anupam Tripathi and Lee Jung-jae…

While filming the “Red light, green light” scene in Squid Games:

17. This photo of Fergie taken moments before…

18. Miley Cyrus on the 2008 Grammys red carpet moments before…

This haunting photo of her — featuring her striking blue-gray eyes — was snapped, thus becoming an iconic reaction photo forever memorialized on Twitter:

19. These behind-the-scenes photos of Taylor Swift captured during the making of…

Her Reputation album cover:

20. This behind-the-scenes It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia shot of Charlie Day moments before…

The filming of this Pepe Silvia scene from Season 4, which has been meme’d a thousand times over by now:

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21. This photo of Mark Ruffalo and Olivia Wilde at a Trump Tower protest in 2017 taken moments before…

They became this viral GIF:

22. These BTS looks (and outfits that weren’t used!) for SZA’s album cover photoshoot…

…Which, of course, was for SOS. In the caption of the post where she shared the videos, she said, “This was so scary and fun lmao also tried it in stripper heels n other fits lol THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT MADE THIS HAPPEN #SOSFOREVER”:

23. This photo Kourtney Kardashian Barker shared in an Instagram dump…

That was taken moments before (if not during) this awkward interview where she “blanked” when asked how her sister, Kim, was doing after the robbery:

24. This photo of Cynthia Erivo at the National Board of Review Awards Gala, taken moments before…

She tapped her head like this during an interview, thus becoming this beloved GIF on Twitter:

25. This person, who logged into their YouTube account in 2018…

And changed the trajectory of Dua Lipa’s career forever with just one comment:

26. And finally, these behind-the-scenes photos of Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna…

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Before he wreaked havoc on Hawkins in Season 4 of Stranger Things back in 2022:

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