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I agree it feels mean. Look at the Golden Bachelor contestants - many seem like they bonded and are now good friends after spending a few months together. I think this happens when you are in a completely new environment (for you) - you look to people to latch onto as you navigate the situation. For Taylor, Brittany is the perfect person to help her navigate through the WAG world. |
Taylor's fan base is eating it up, though, and she knows that. It does feel very performative, but she knows exactly what she's doing. She is choosing to attend his games in the flashiest manner possible (the celebrity entourages, the flashy outfits, the convertible, etc.) because her teenage and young adult fans are eating it up, living vicariously through her play-acting the adoring girlfriend of the star football player. That doesn't mean the whole relationship is fake, and she doesn't have to slink around if she doesn't want to, but I don't think she's following him around like a puppy just to feed his ego or to subordinate herself/her career... this is all part of her being a savvy businesswoman. |
Totally agree. Her continued overexposure (now at NFL games) is part of her ubiquity and making her brand and presence even bigger. Most ppl in America are not overthinking it, they think it's cute and romantic. It feels like her old hit "You Belong With Me" re the jock and she's getting him this time. I think this is great and a positive for like 95%+ of her fans. I don't think Travis busting into her "ladies night" NYC restaurant outings with her friends who do much to look good for him or for her. |
This take is a perfect example of why her behavior feels immature to me. If you were describing a 24 year old, I'd see how this makes sense. You are describing someone a decade older, who has a billion dollars and was just named Time's Person of the Year. Why are you comparing her to contestants on the Golden Bachelor??? Why does she need someone to "latch onto" and navigate being a football girlfriend? Why does she even have to do "football girlfriend" correctly -- she's Taylor Swift, who cares. Also, to the prior poster, it is not actually necessary for so many of the Travis and Taylor's "key moments" in their relationship to be public. Like sure, her giving him a hug after yesterday's game -- that was going to happen on the field. But most of the personal interactions between them that have been "caught" by the cameras could have happened in private. They are not required to do a pap walk after going to dinner. Travis is not required to greet her in full view of fans and press when she comes off the stage at her show. She is not required to walk through the stadium with him after games. And so on. Many, many famous people manage to date in ways that don't involve being photographed on dates or in private, intimate moments. These people are insanely wealthy -- they just have those moments behind closed doors. We see this stuff because they want us to see it. |
Just to be clear, your argument here is that she is following him around like a puppy because she's smart enough to know that's what her fans want to see. Yes? Did I get this right? G-R-O-S-S. If true, Taylor AND her fans need to grow the heck up. If you are watching this stuff just thrilled that your dream of being a football player's girlfriend is coming to life before your eyes, can I gently suggest you get a better dream? |
| Travis and Jason come from a supportive legit real family. There doesn't seem to be any major conflicts in their family with big and bigger egos. |
To put it gently: this is psychotic. You are describing a carefully crafted PR relationship designed to appeal to the desire of young women to be the subordinate girlfriend to a big successful jock boyfriend, as enacted by one of the most powerful women in entertainment at the moment. And you are describing it like it's cool and admirable? This is like arguing those passive aggressive headlines on women's magazines ("How to lose weight to find yourself!") are just a cool way for the women who run those magazines to exploit their reader's insecurities for advertising dollars. Yay? |
My parents are old boomers who casually watch NFL playoff games and they find her performance at games and the camera always going to her so obnoxious and annoying. They ridiculed her for acting like a teenager when she's age 34. They are not tuned into pop culture at all but they believe the way it's forced on the audience makes it seem like a fake relationship and that the NFL is in on it. |
Your continued use of "legit real family" is starting to gross me out. All families are "real" and "legit." Being a white family from the midwest whose adult sons play pro football does not make you more real and legit, but it really feels like that's what you're trying to say. |
You just injected race into the discussion and put words in people’s mouths that they didn’t put there. Watch the documentary on Jason Kelce and you’ll see that both his parents are incredibly loving and sacrificed financially for their kids. There is a strong and loving family presence there that helped shape their growth. They seem well adjusted thanks to that type of family environment. I’m sorry you think it’s “racist” to talk about supporting, loving families. Most scientists, or even sociologists, would agree that a stable, loving environment with two parents is a great place to grow up, but you go ahead and write flippant, irreverent and spiteful, snarky, race-baiting internet comments and we’ll all just go on with our lives. Ugh, and I’m liberal. Sorry we’re all not woke enough to comment here. |
Exactly. She's giving her fans what they want, and getting richer every day for it. Don't hate the player, hate the game. |
It’s a shame they didn’t come from a poverty stricken, single parent, inner city home, because, by all legit metrics, would have done even better than they did. S/ |
Well they didn't raise their sons to have manners since they both enjoy opening their mouths as wide as they can possibly to to shout like cave men when they win. So gross. In legit good families they'd say, "You'll catch flies that way." |
No, I'm responding to your repeated use of the phrase "legit real family" to describe the Kelces. It's a weird phrasing, especially the word "legit." Why not just say "they seem like a loving, supportive family." That would have been normal. You chose to go with "legit real family." Why? It's weird and absolutely begs the question of what an illegitimate, fake family looks like. |
Plenty of successful athletes did. |