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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imagine my "shock" when my boyfriend gave me this ring I picked out and the photographer I hired filmed it.  *Make shocked face*[/quote]

While both of us were wearing summer/fall 2025 Ralph Lauren. And we released the footage, with a 'teachers' caption, the day before my boyfriend's American Eagle 'back to school' ad.

Americans are hopelessly gullible.[/quote]

You’re gullible if you believe they didn’t have a private engagement before this. He didn’t just roll up with that ring, this was made for mass consumption and more likely than not wasn’t even the real proposal. But, why are you so mad about it? This is what they do.[/quote]

So it was fake but it was fake for the fans? Why? To milk fans and make money? But I thought they were both so rich, they don't have to fake or do anything for money? :roll: These are two soulless, scheming, money-grubbing celebs. I think both of them have sold their souls and are so far gone they don't know what is real, what is fake. Their life is a simulation at this point.[/quote]

I agree, but I would also say that this is all Taylor has ever known. This is why she was exploited. Her entire tween and teen years were sold to her fans by her parents.  If you have ever read that email her dad sent that was written when she was like 12 or so. He basically said he worked so hard to make her famous and (and he didn’t know what her talent was yet), but that she would be famous for SOMETHING (acting, modeling, etc). And that he crafted her own web site at age 12 to generate fans etc.  Couple that with her Mom setting up secret parties with fans so Taylor could “see what teenage life was like” and you have a girlhood exploited.

She is like Truman in the Truman Show and she doesn’t even know it.[/quote]

Definitely her childhood was different. She was being primed for stardom but it’s hard for me to see this as a bad thing. I remember when Britney was coming up it was before social media, but her mom had this blog which was like a journal, capturing all of B’s travel and tours and her life. It seemed very happy and wonderful. But we started seeing cracks pretty early.

Taylor is pretty far into this life and I’m not seeing those cracks. She truly seems to love her craft and I can’t imagine how amazing it would be to just be able to write songs that people can’t wait to listen to and watch performed in concert. She just came off a tour of what 149 concerts… That the fans went wild over… And that she seemed to clearly enjoy doing and it takes a lot of stamina and hard work and heart to put out. That wasn’t fake or manufactured.

I’m not saying a lot of the marketing is not, well marketing, but painting this picture as if she is some puppet doesn’t really work anymore. I’m sure her parents did a lot in the beginning, but she now really has agency over her life and career and she seems well adjusted, stable and dare I say happy.

I guess I don’t see where you can criticize her parents. I think if we end up with 35-year-olds who seem this happy and well adjusted we’d be happy as parents.

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Well said.  She is level-headed and grounded, no doubt thanks to her stable upbringing and loving parents.  Some people just can't stand to admit that for whatever reason.[/quote]

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