Taylor Swift is awful (and her music isn't even very good)

[Anonymous]

I think it's odd she obsessively curates her life to look perfect and old fashioned, but she's unmarried and childless at nearly age 33. Any child, especially first child, past age 35 is technically a geriatric pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taylor's songs are far better and classic than the 100% fake Beyonce hype. Beyonce's "yessssss queen" hype is the fakest astroturfed nonsense I've ever seen.

False equivalence. Beyoncé isn't selling herself as a sensitive singer-songwriter. She makes club music meant to be danced to, meant to move the people who hear it to get on the dance floor. It's a totally different goal than Taylor Swift.

The one thing they have in common is that they are both selling an aesthetic, and I just personally far prefer Beyoncé's. It makes me feel powerful and beautiful. Both women are marketing savants and powerful business women, but for Beyoncé this is actually part of her aesthetic and appeal and that feels authentic to me. Whereas Swift's aesthetic is that of the sensitive girl who is unlucky in love. One, why would I want to identify with that? Even if I could relate to it at times in my life, it's not an identity I want to embrace, it's one I wanted to (and did) move on from. And two, it feels inauthentic because as has been mentioned several times on this thread, Swift isn't just some sad girl who is unlucky in love. Why is all her music about old boyfriends or getting back at people who doubted her when she's actually very much in control? Just the way she always casts herself as the underdog is bizarre given who she actually is and what she has accomplished.

There is something deeply satisfying to me about seeing Beyoncé perform a song about being assertive and in control while being assertive and in control. Meanwhile Swift will perform some sad sack song about how a boy left her for a hotter girl while looking drop dead gorgeous and pouting perfectly lipsticked lips and it's just confusing. Why doesn't she just own her power and authority? Why hide behind the idea that she's a "nerd" or grew up poor (she didn't)? It makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's odd she obsessively curates her life to look perfect and old fashioned, but she's unmarried and childless at nearly age 33. Any child, especially first child, past age 35 is technically a geriatric pregnancy.

ffs, she want to appear old fashioned but you’re the one implying that she should be barefoot and pregnant at her age? Nice.
Haters gonna hate

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Anonymous wrote:I never understood the fascination with this woman. Her music is bland and so is she. How she is such a star is beyond me.

Maybe it is you. After all you can point out that she is successful by all the means...she has sold albums. popular and sold out shows and many awards.

I find that if she was a man no one would criticize her.

Kenny Rogers, Shania Twain, and Kenny G have all sold more albums than her, and I'm not particularly into any of them either. Other people are, which is fine. Selling a lot of records does not mean I have to like your music. I doubt Kenny G cares that a lot of people make fun of him and think his music is bad.

On the other hand, if Kenny G had written multiple songs making fun of the people who don't like his music or claiming that their dislike was not genuine but based on discrimination against men with long curly hair, I sense that would also annoy a lot of people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's odd she obsessively curates her life to look perfect and old fashioned, but she's unmarried and childless at nearly age 33. Any child, especially first child, past age 35 is technically a geriatric pregnancy.

Yes, technically, but I don’t think the term “elderly primigravida” (which was on my chart when I gave birth at 37 in 1998, and what a boost it gave me) is still used.

[Anonymous]

Who’s Kenny G?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taylor's songs are far better and classic than the 100% fake Beyonce hype. Beyonce's "yessssss queen" hype is the fakest astroturfed nonsense I've ever seen.

None of Taylor’s songs are classic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never understood the fascination with this woman. Her music is bland and so is she. How she is such a star is beyond me.

Her level of “talent” is attainable and unthreatening. She’s the epitome of basic. Just like majority of society.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's odd she obsessively curates her life to look perfect and old fashioned, but she's unmarried and childless at nearly age 33. Any child, especially first child, past age 35 is technically a geriatric pregnancy.

I married into a Southern family with a lot of wealthy Southern belle aesthetic sorority girls in it. Basically all of them are married after college by age 22-25. And usually quickly pop out kids. In the South, unmarried and childless at 33 is super weird; like side-eye, w-t-f is wrong with you, sketchy weird. It’s also weird how Taylor still acts like she’s still some immature 19 year old. It’s dare I say… creepy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's odd she obsessively curates her life to look perfect and old fashioned, but she's unmarried and childless at nearly age 33. Any child, especially first child, past age 35 is technically a geriatric pregnancy.

Why are you obsessed with her uterus? Maybe she doesn't want kids! My DD is 19 and since she could formulate the thought has said she doesn't think she wants kids. Some people don't. And that's okay.

I don't think Taylor curates her life to be old fashioned. Maybe she just tries to live somewhat simply, and doesn't buy into the idea that the way the Kardashians live life is the best way to live life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's odd she obsessively curates her life to look perfect and old fashioned, but she's unmarried and childless at nearly age 33. Any child, especially first child, past age 35 is technically a geriatric pregnancy.

I married into a Southern family with a lot of wealthy Southern belle aesthetic sorority girls in it. Basically all of them are married after college by age 22-25. And usually quickly pop out kids. In the South, unmarried and childless at 33 is super weird; like side-eye, w-t-f is wrong with you, sketchy weird. It’s also weird how Taylor still acts like she’s still some immature 19 year old. It’s dare I say… creepy?

I think she is a perfectionist and wants someone with old money and prestige - she tried dating Conor Kennedy and I think that is her type.

[Anonymous]

My TikTok has been filled chock full of “Gaylor” videos. Anyone else?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's odd she obsessively curates her life to look perfect and old fashioned, but she's unmarried and childless at nearly age 33. Any child, especially first child, past age 35 is technically a geriatric pregnancy.

Why are you obsessed with her uterus? Maybe she doesn't want kids! My DD is 19 and since she could formulate the thought has said she doesn't think she wants kids. Some people don't. And that's okay.

I don't think Taylor curates her life to be old fashioned. Maybe she just tries to live somewhat simply, and doesn't buy into the idea that the way the Kardashians live life is the best way to live life.

Uh oh someone doesn’t know what words mean. She doesn’t try to live “simply.” She, like PP said, follows an old fashioned and preppy/Southern (and sometimes New England when she feels like it) old money aesthetic. This is obviously different from the Kardashians but not “simple living.” Do you think wealthy people in the Hamptons live simply?

Given this, it’s weird af that she’s unmarried and childless well into her 30’s. The aesthetic she’s striving for doesn’t vibe with her reality and just makes her seem stunted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's odd she obsessively curates her life to look perfect and old fashioned, but she's unmarried and childless at nearly age 33. Any child, especially first child, past age 35 is technically a geriatric pregnancy.

Why are you obsessed with her uterus? Maybe she doesn't want kids! My DD is 19 and since she could formulate the thought has said she doesn't think she wants kids. Some people don't. And that's okay.

I don't think Taylor curates her life to be old fashioned. Maybe she just tries to live somewhat simply, and doesn't buy into the idea that the way the Kardashians live life is the best way to live life.

Uh oh someone doesn’t know what words mean. She doesn’t try to live “simply.” She, like PP said, follows an old fashioned and preppy/Southern (and sometimes New England when she feels like it) old money aesthetic. This is obviously different from the Kardashians but not “simple living.” Do you think wealthy people in the Hamptons live simply?

Given this, it’s weird af that she’s unmarried and childless well into her 30’s. The aesthetic she’s striving for doesn’t vibe with her reality and just makes her seem stunted.

??? That’s not her aesthetic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I never understood the fascination with this woman. Her music is bland and so is she. How she is such a star is beyond me.

Her level of “talent” is attainable and unthreatening. She’s the epitome of basic. Just like majority of society.

Attainable? Skinny blondes with blue eyes and a nice voice don’t grow on trees. Most Americans are fat and ugly and talentless.