Indeed. She was trying to be nice with a known parasite, and discovered (again!) that's not a good idea. Sometimes, sadly, you can't be nice. |
Very true and so sad. |
Are you and the salad gate posted being purposefully obtuse? This aside has nothing to do with country collaborations. It has to do with the fact that Taylor, as a (at the time) very cute innocent blonde white girl who was clearly going to grow up into a beautiful thin blonde white woman had an advantage in the country music world. PP then cites Darius Rucker, a man who was already a very famous and successful musician as being a successful black man in country music. And then pitches a black girl who (I assume) is big in country music. Then tells me about #saladgate which I did google and apparently is how a super douchey country music guy said that country radio can't be successful because men are the lettuse in the country music salad and women the tomatoes. Which is quite revolting. I'm not sure it contradicts the idea that beautiful blondes have a legup in country music however since apparently the only two female musicians regularly cracking the top 10 in country are Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert (two blonde white women!). So the original thing that led to this disagreement, which was a poster saying it wasn't that hard for a cute precocious blonde to make it in country music is actually accurate. Which isn't to say that there aren't a lot of buxom blondes singing in dive bars in Nashville who are never going to make a dime, but if you happen to be a super talented white skinny blonde girl, your chances are way better than anyone else's. |
addendum... you chances are way better than anyone else...who isn't a ruggedly handsome, muscly, jean wearing brunette all american boy |
This is a really cruel and trashy post. Kim was young and at worst was manipulated by her mother into doing something she clearly regretted (with a long term romantic partner) as she sued vivid entertainment (and got a settlement) when they released the video four years after it was made. Her sister was in a long term relationship with her children't father and only broke up with him after years of trying to get him treatment for his addictions. These people are human beings, just like your precious Taylor. They put it all out there so they are of course welcoming this kind of trashy criticism, but it certainly doesn't say much about you that you seem to take pleasure in someone being sexually exploited and another woman trying to hold her relationship together for her children. And I do not watch KUWTK or any other Kardashian thing. I'm not a fan, but I don't like when people talk about celebrities like this. Maybe you should go watch the music video he made that you so clearly detest, its critiquing people like you. Also, since clearly you all missed it in the BUCKETS of coverage, KIM DIDN'T TAPE TAYLOR. Kanye has repeatedly says he tapes the development of all of his albums for his records. She clearly had access to it, edited it and released it but she wasn't sneaking cell phone coverage behind kanye's back. Taylor just got caught fair and simple. She'd get a lot more credit if she just owned up to it and apologized and said she made a mistake instead of trying to be all high and mighty about it. I never thought in a million years I'd say TS and Kanye were even after that VMA debacle but they are even, this was really effed up. Effed up that it kind of seems like a mean girl master plan. |
O.k. - you are attributing comments made by multiple posters to one poster. Actually there were a few of us in that conversation, not just one person. I think there is a lot of competition in the music industry and to say that it is "easy" for anyone to make it in music is a little naive. Carrie Underwood for instance was the winning contestant in American Idol - she beat out lots of other talented singers fair and square and I really don't think that American Idol specifically looks for country music talent at all. Carrie was/is just a very talented singer. There are lots of talented brunette singers in Country music - Martina McBride, Shania Twain, Little Big Town lead singer (can't think of her name). Reba has red hair. They aren't all young 20 something young blondes. I'm not sure where Miranda Lambert got her start but I do like her. |
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And the point is BOTH Darrius and Taylor were famous before they made their cross overs. Lots of other performers have tried to that with limited success. Darrius and Taylor have been highly successful in their cross over careers.
Why are they so succesful in their cross over careers and not others? I think it's a whole lot more complicated than hair color. |
Woah let's go back. Someone said she wasn't that famous etc. Someone else said it wasn't that hard for her to get in. With her look. It went on an irrelevant tangent from there. Here's the truth. No matter who you are, it's hard to get into country. Every single year, hundreds and hundreds of young people head over to Nashville to make it. They ALL sing beautifully. They ALL play an instrument or three. Some stay forever, some leave, some in between. I lived in a small town where a young lady moved there after hs. The small town paper did a huge report on her, because that's exciting to them..and she was basically saying how she had been there a year. Was continuing to work had, trying to get a contract, practiced her heart out in her tiny apartment. Anyways, whoever you are it's hard to get in. And it's hard to stay in. And be at the top. Most acts last 2 albums and they're done. There is 0 demographic advantage, even for blonde.twigs. None. You get picked up if you have a look, sound, potential that the execs are looking for in that moment. That's your one advantage. That luck and timing coincide with your attempt. Same as other music genres!!! So no need to dis on her because of how she looks. |
Just because these Kardashians don't mind a little (or a lot) of trashiness in their lives does not give them the right to try to drag an unwilling participant into their seedy behavior. Taylor has just as much right to her own image as they do. Kim needs to leave her alone. |
Yes, but when part of her image is built on being "bullied" by someone else, the accused "bully" has a right to participate in the narrative. |
And people who haven't followed Taylor from her country music days may be unaware of how gawky and awkward but sweet Taylor came across in those days. She was a very talented teenager but she wasn't hot and sexy. She became well loved for her genuine raw talent - in writing, performing and singing her very own songs. |
If Taylor ever talks to those two again then she will have no sympathy from me. But I think she will move on from this. I really do. |
Taylor seems to have a lot of 'feuds.' More than anyone else. At one point does she become the common thread instead of the innocent victim of SO MANY PEOPLE? |
Well maybe if that's the case Kanye and Kim would be better off staying away from Taylor too. |
I don't know anything about these people, but I dl know that TS might be the target of jealous people, and that she may have learned to defend herself early on in the music business. |