Does this Taylor Swift fling with the NFL football brute seem super fake?

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Anonymous wrote:She’s going to marry him!

Ha! No she is not. She is much more famous and rich than he is. He needs a southern girl ready to pump out big, ogre babies who will be as dumb as rocks.

WTF it is not cool to talk about him this way. What is wrong with you people?

Not everyone bows at the altar of football.

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Anonymous wrote:Initially I thought this was very off-brand for her, but the more I think about it, it's actually very savvy of her. I agree with the PPs who suggest her intention is to curry favor with the middle America beer n' sportsball demographic for political purposes. I am sure they are both in on it and having fun with it, so good for them.

You obviously haven’t watched Miss americana.

Also, she’s on $1 billion tour and releasing a multi MM movie. What does she need a bunch of Trump supporters for?

Republicans buy sneakers, too.

- Michael Jordan

I don’t understand this argument. How does showing up at a pro game grow her fan base? She started in country music. Republicans in middle America know who she is and have already formed an opinion about her.

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He might be a lot of things but the moment where he nearly loses it in his SNL monologue shows that there is still a real person there. I bet they are just having fun but I hope they ride it out.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s going to marry him!

Ha! No she is not. She is much more famous and rich than he is. He needs a southern girl ready to pump out big, ogre babies who will be as dumb as rocks.

WTF it is not cool to talk about him this way. What is wrong with you people?

Not everyone bows at the altar of football.

I do not bow to the altar of football and I'm incredibly liberal but I also don't assume that football players are brute ogres who want to 'pump out big, orgre babies who will be as dumb as rocks' wtf. Maybe you should bow to the altar of acting like a decent human being.

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Anonymous wrote:Initially I thought this was very off-brand for her, but the more I think about it, it's actually very savvy of her. I agree with the PPs who suggest her intention is to curry favor with the middle America beer n' sportsball demographic for political purposes. I am sure they are both in on it and having fun with it, so good for them.

You obviously haven’t watched Miss americana.

Also, she’s on $1 billion tour and releasing a multi MM movie. What does she need a bunch of Trump supporters for?

Republicans buy sneakers, too.

- Michael Jordan

I don’t understand this argument. How does showing up at a pro game grow her fan base? She started in country music. Republicans in middle America know who she is and have already formed an opinion about her.

Correct! Someone made an inane argument. TS has sold out all over the country and world.

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Anonymous wrote:Initially I thought this was very off-brand for her, but the more I think about it, it's actually very savvy of her. I agree with the PPs who suggest her intention is to curry favor with the middle America beer n' sportsball demographic for political purposes. I am sure they are both in on it and having fun with it, so good for them.

You obviously haven’t watched Miss americana.

Also, she’s on $1 billion tour and releasing a multi MM movie. What does she need a bunch of Trump supporters for?

Republicans buy sneakers, too.

- Michael Jordan

I don’t understand this argument. How does showing up at a pro game grow her fan base? She started in country music. Republicans in middle America know who she is and have already formed an opinion about her.

30 million football fan dads taking the entire family to her $20 per ticket concert movie in 3 weeks generates a big check for her, since she gets nearly half of the ticket revenue. And makes her a more powerful political force.

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Totally authentic!

Riiiight. I am sure a mega pop star--who has to worry about stalkers--is just driving around a city in a convertible with a non-professional driver who doesn't know how to evade kidnappers.

Taylor says they have to carry quick clotting materials in case something happens...so, yeah, this driving around in the open is dangerous and therefore is planned out to keep her safe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Initially I thought this was very off-brand for her, but the more I think about it, it's actually very savvy of her. I agree with the PPs who suggest her intention is to curry favor with the middle America beer n' sportsball demographic for political purposes. I am sure they are both in on it and having fun with it, so good for them.

You obviously haven’t watched Miss americana.

Also, she’s on $1 billion tour and releasing a multi MM movie. What does she need a bunch of Trump supporters for?

Republicans buy sneakers, too.

- Michael Jordan

I don’t understand this argument. How does showing up at a pro game grow her fan base? She started in country music. Republicans in middle America know who she is and have already formed an opinion about her.

Correct! Someone made an inane argument. TS has sold out all over the country and world.

Yes she does not need publicity. She is one of the most famous people in the entire world. She is FAR more famous than him and will always be more famous than he is. Those movie tickets have already all sold out.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know if it’s fake but it’s not serious.

I was kinda hoping she and Sophie would have a fling. I’m a bit bummed.

[Anonymous]

It's incredibly fake. And it's not about raising her profile with certain demographics. It's about raising HIS profile with her core demos. Also likely why you see NFL players talking about their favorite Taylor Swift songs. They want to boost interest in the sport among women age 18-35. It's a major, and profitable marketing demographic and professional sports teams are finally realizing it.

She's done this before with Tom Hiddleston. Also, similarly, he was a guy with his star on the rise and despite it being as fake as fake can be, Hiddleston's "relationship" with Swift exposed him to a broader audience, including more women in the US. It coincided with his lead role in the Night Manager, and I think the goal was to get audiences to see him as more of a leading man, instead of the baddie/comic relief that he plays as Loki in the Avenger movies (notably, Hiddleston auditioned for the role of Thor but got cast as Loki, he's been trying to break into the leading man game for awhile).

Anyway, Swift and Hiddleston "dated" for 3 months in the summer of 2016 and literally every week they'd release new photos of them doing something together -- hanging with her famous friends at the beach, him meeting her parents, the two of them on vacation in Italy looking like they were wearing costumes from the Marvelous Mr. Ripley.

This round was obviously scheduled to coincide with the football season. Expect to see her attending games in various cities, some kind of special date/vacation together during his buy week, etc. Then they'll start to "drift apart" around Christmas and by the playoffs she'll be wishing him the best but "focusing on her next album" while he gears up for another SB run.

I haven't quite figured out what Swift gets out of it. Maybe she really is gay and trying to cover it up, which I would find weirdly regressive for her and not necessary. Maybe she is truly trying to find a life partner and this is part of a years long effort by her team to set her up with various eligible bachelors and see if one of them sticks. But the extremely public nature of these relationships and the very obviously staged photo ops really speaks to it being fake and for PR. I just don't quite get her angle. Maybe she's just messing with people. Maybe she knows that the higher profile her exes, the more interest it creates in her next break up album. I don't know.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know understand why she doesn’t go after some sophisticated high powered executive? That’s what I would do if I were her! Not someone who runs after a ball all day.

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I'm not a fan of TS but I don't live under a rock. I know that this woman was the first to sell out a billion dollar show and has had the highest grossing tour in history. Armed with this knowledge alone, why on earth would anyone think that she needs more publicity? I think she's good.

And while Travis Kelce is likeable, he's not bringing any more press than she's already got. I mean, TS could date a Starbucks barista and get just as much press as she's getting now.

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Anonymous wrote:The guy is a gigantic brute tight end, so he doesn't look like anyone she's ever dated. I thought maybe it was authentic but then I see her going viral right now for celebrating at the game. Her reaction to him scoring a touchdown looked soooooooo fake and contrived. I'm now convinced this is entirely fake. But why?

This fake crap has been telegraphed for months with various “viral” clips of macho NFL players at her concerts. It’s cool and okay for men to listen to her catalog! She’s targeting the football demo. Tens of millions of men—over 30 million Americans have a fantasy football team. This cohort swings general elections, which I’m assuming is the real motive here.

Yep! This is why you have so many football teams talking about their fave TS songs. Do we really think that was not planned?!

The teams were asked about favorite songs because Swift’s tour was in town. I doubt she’s been working with the NFL. She sold out a stadium tour without their help.

Either way, this appears to be a calculated move to keep attention and get money. Get attached to a dude with millions of fans, appear at an event being watched by millions between your own shows, etc.

I still think there's a connection. TS played stadiums. Who uses the stadiums the most? Football teams. Lots of cross promo opportunities. If she isn't being paid directly, she's still able to earn money from her appearance at the game by getting NFL daddies to buy tix to her movie for their kids.

And she previously said her relationships were not up for discussion and kept them mostly under wraps. But now she changed her mind?

She is only seen when she wants to be seen. She has security that can make sure of that. Like, we never see her in Utah, do we? But her plane flies there.

She's in control of her story and she's brilliant or has brilliant people working for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if it’s fake but it’s not serious.

I was kinda hoping she and Sophie would have a fling. I’m a bit bummed.

You are bummed two clearly heterosexual women don't want to have s&x with each other and instead have a supportive friendship? I don't understand people who seem to want her to be gay when she very clearly is not. And I have no problems with gay people but like, people can be heterosexual! At this point she has dated like 15 men sequentially and written song after song about her heartbreaks, stop trying to make gaylor happen and let her be!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Initially I thought this was very off-brand for her, but the more I think about it, it's actually very savvy of her. I agree with the PPs who suggest her intention is to curry favor with the middle America beer n' sportsball demographic for political purposes. I am sure they are both in on it and having fun with it, so good for them.

You obviously haven’t watched Miss americana.

Also, she’s on $1 billion tour and releasing a multi MM movie. What does she need a bunch of Trump supporters for?

Republicans buy sneakers, too.

- Michael Jordan

I don’t understand this argument. How does showing up at a pro game grow her fan base? She started in country music. Republicans in middle America know who she is and have already formed an opinion about her.

Correct! Someone made an inane argument. TS has sold out all over the country and world.

exactly. it’s an argument made by people who simply cannot understand or support successful women. it has to always be about a man for them.