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| Cry me a river...... |
There’s nothing wrong with drinking when done in moderation. |
Well, it’s been working for J Lo for many years. I don’t think fans care that much, most people are used to celebrities messing up relationships left and right. It’s more rare for a celebrity to have a long marriage and much more common to have multiple relationships or divorces. |
JLo isn't seen as a cool celebrity these days. She makes bad romantic movies and that's it. |
I mean, I’m not a JO fan but she is successful and certainly gets a lot of attention paid on her. I’m not one of them but people are still going to tour and buying her music. She gets a ton of press she cure, but she gets it. Madonna is the same, never really had a long-term relationship despite a few marriages. Plenty of people don’t care about these kind of things. |
So does Taylor. |
JLo has an acting career, her music is really not the focus of her celebrity at this point. No one sits around discussing her brilliance as a lyricist. No one cares. Her main job is showing up to awards shows with Ben, posting to social media, and making an occasional movie. Madonna's always been very independent and unabashed about her attention-seeking, even when in relationships. She never played second fiddle to ANYONE. She's also received tons of criticism for it over the years but she DGAF. She just reinvents herself (again) and moves on. She became famous later than Taylor (in her 20s) and was always seen as an adult professional -- her parents didn't manage her career, she was never seen as an ingenue. There's always been a hardness to her, a sort of cravenness that she is up front about. Gwen Stefani is similar. Taylor's full focus is music and her brand has remained pretty consistent over the years, and that brand is very young, romantic, and sweet. Reasonably, some of us are wondering how long it will hold up. This thing with Travis has been interesting because at a point when I think some of us thought she was going to pivot to a more mature, self-assured version of herself (the Eras tour has a lot of self-assuredness, Antihero is the most self-aware thing she's ever done, it feels like she's coming into her own in a new way), she made herself, very publicly, the adoring girlfriend of a guy who is less famous than her. Maybe it's really just emotionally driven -- she cares about him and his having fun. Good for her. From a career perspective, it seems like step backward and a little disappointing. She IS a role model to young women and it would have been cool to see her go about this in a different way that didn't require her to sort of subsume herself into his life the way she has. I'm not some mega-Swiftie and I know she is not my friend, but it does have the whiff of watching a good friend who has a history of having questionable taste in men and getting a little too serious a little to fast, doing it yet again. It's like, girl, when are you going to grow up? The rest of us are past this phase. At least that's how I feel. |
Probably plenty of other people who can write better music than Taylor Swift can but maybe a teeny, tiny, less than half a percent of them could be a mega star. She has that ability, for whatever reasons. |
She's an accomplished artist and performer, but if we just look at celebrities in general we can see being a famous artist doesn't translate into maturity or good choices outside of work for many of them. Her choices have been pretty good considering how strange her life has been, probably because she comes from a wealthy, stable family. It helps. |