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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember when she made a whole big deal about realizing that she herself was a problem and her use of drama for attention whoring was making her less likable and that she might not ever be able to find love again.... And then that was the same album as "look what you made me do"

I liked her music but i have come to realize she's pretty awful and refuses to change unless its to protect her wealth and control her image to her sycophants.

And this businesswoman playing safe and out of touch with kids money is beyond disgusting to me now.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

wasn't that "Anti-Hero" from Midnights (2022), not anything from Reputation (2017), the one with "Look What You Made Me Do"? and imo the 2017 album was justified given the massive defamation she suffered from Kanye West, which doesn't make the things she's done in the past 5 years better but still more than justifies Reputation for me

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 points 1 day ago

"Delicate"

She was calling herself out eariler than people think.
I think anti-hero is her being more self agrandizing so people think she cared about being a bad person.
She had already dutched friendships because of Katy Perry hiring back some of Swift's backup dancers, written petty songs about people calling them pedophiles (john mayer) and been clearly on a war path of business. I find "look what you made me do" actually petty and low basically announcing she didnt need to change cause she had the fans. She casts so much shade you would think the sun is going out the way she hogs it up.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 119 points 2 days ago (6 children)

It's crazy it took this long for people to get tired of a 40 year old billionaire singing teen love songs...

Every "good" album was after she broke up with a bf, because that the only relatable experience she has to her fans. Lots of people called that getting engaged/married would be the end of her career.

She simply has nothing in common with her fans anymore. But she's been a horrible person for decades, especially towards female singers who are younger than her. And now their fans are starting to realize who the problem always was.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Holy fuck, yeah, she's near 40. I'm near 40.

This reframing has destabilised me.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Yeah. I grew up on country and remember her first CMT music videos during my formative years.

Waaaay before she was famous, and all the teen drama songs were appropriate.

But she's had a death grip on that genre so long, her current competitors weren't even born when she released her first album. Legitimately, her first song released 19 years ago at 18, I checked.

That's like people say all the "versions" are just a cash grab, but it's more nefarious, for over a decade when a young female artists releases a big album for that demo, Taylor drops a new version to steal sales away from younger artists.

She's got a pure boomer mentality about it. She'll never try to bring the next generation on, she intentionally and consistently puts them down so she can maintain her position at the top of the pile.

There's zero indication she can grow as an artist, and more and more people are considering that sad.

Shes gonna go from the world's biggest start to a joke very fast, but it'll still take years to really start.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 80 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm convinced shit like paper straws is just to turn people against saving the planet.

The fucking straws aren't great, but the real problem has always been the oligarchs and corporations.

So they come up with stuff that won't help, but will get people pissed at climate activists.

Shit's so obvious but no one ever talks about it. It's the same principle as means testing, divide and conquer

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The straw is the last thing I tend to worry about getting the sorta carbonated water that doesn’t have enough syrup in it so you’re basically drinking carbonated municipal water supply with some chemical colorants.

Maybe I'm spoiled, but the biggest city around here also has the best water

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I remember something where Tina Fey wrote a bit on SNL parodying swift and someone interviewed Taylor and she said something to the effect of “as Barbara Walters says there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women” about Fey in regards to a pretty gentle and innocuous comedy bit. Which was funny because Barbara Walters was a shitty person who broke down other women too. I honestly think Swift isn’t super different from Kanye. They’re both rich, self-obsessed assholes who have zero sense of humor about themselves and zero real-world awareness. A lot of people have known she was a piece of shit for a long time but if you ever said anything about it you were called a liar, sexist, jealous, or we’re just doxxed by swifties

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

At least Kanye West's lack of awareness stems from him refusing to take medication to stabilize himself (on top of being a petty bitch who'll die on any hill he's standing on, even if he found himself there unintentionally).

Taylor Swift is just milquetoast, "I don't understand why the poors are complaining" rich apparently.

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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 30 points 2 days ago

Most of her hardcore fans are remarkably dumb. Even the ones who have finally seen the light, quoted in this article.

“I don’t expect celebrities to be political or foreign policy experts, but the past few months have felt like her only concern is selling us a plethora of vinyl variants.”

The past few months?!! She’s been hawking vinyl variants for years. The album before this one dominated the charts for months because they released so many variants.

“I’m a fan ― I even flew to Scotland for the Eras Tour ― but Taylor has felt out-of-touch lately.”

Oh yeah. Just lately. Keep using that brain of yours. You’ll get there.

[–] blave@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m not a Taylor Swift fan, but I do have one thing in common with her: I wanna fuck her boyfriend. Maybe she should sing songs about that.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

Apparently she made an incredibly juvenile song about how big his dick is?

Like, not just a song about his dick and that is juvenile. But a song about him that sounds like a 7th grader wrote it.

A bad attempt at Sabrina Carpenter's whole deal.

So yeah, maybe you'll like at least one song on it...

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 16 points 2 days ago

She also has a decent set of songs built around her coming to grips with that her unhappiness may be more due to herself than others.

She also seems like an aspirational version of a lot of women.

[–] JoeTheSane@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it’s a good album.

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] JoeTheSane@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

The songs are catchy and the one about her husbands dick was hilarious.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I literally couldn’t read the article, as it kept reloading the page every few seconds, jumping out of reader view and to its fundraising banner. I’m guessing that’s some kind of copy protection against people not looking at ads or something. In any case, it worked.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Man I sure hope so. Seems like every time she farts sideways it's front page news. Enough already.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait she farts sideways? Like it comes out of her hip? That is news!

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

As in, lifts a cheek to sneak one. 🤌🏼

Ah, we call that "popping a sneaker" here

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The remarkable amount of new holeage she'd have to get added to actually fart sideways would make that news, yes

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She's a billionaire that's engaged to someone that appears to be a Magat. How is anyone surprised?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

engaged to someone that appears to be a Magat

Where do you get this from? I'm not super caught-up with Taylor Swift's lore, but I know that Kelce is largely progressive, and has quietly supported Kamala.

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I could be wrong, and I know he's left on some things, but it's mostly the refusal to denounce things said by the more outwardly right wing teammates he has (Butker) and apparent happiness at playing in front of Trump at the super bowl. If he's not actually maga, he's as least centrist enough to be ok with magats.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

His previous girlfriends were black, that's actually part of the controversy of this new album - the little slights against black women that Travis used to be interested in or date, like Meg the Stallion. She previously was criticized for being kinda racist with Shake it Off music video and Wildest Dreams video (and a little with the T Swizzle thing), and lack of black staff, friends, etc. Afaik she has not done much to remedy this.

But I actually agree that both of them are at least MAGA-fishing and doing something weird. I dont think their relationship is healthy, I think they objectify each other. And that's why she got bad plastic surgery and messed up her eyes a little and face a little, because she's so insecure with this man for some reason and is trying to overcompensate with trad wife stuff. It isn't healthy at all imo.

Her saying she turned down the Superbowl just in case Travis might be there, and that him playing is like being on a battlefield and that it's more important to focus on him - who tf is that? Not the Taylor who wrote "The Man," surely.

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