Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 21:54     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:Her family has great business sense.

She needs to pay more attention to melody and harmony and less attention to lyrics in her writing. Her earlier stuff was enjoyable when she was more produced.

I tire of the idea that the only way to express your femininity is through ice skating costumes and gowns.

She can’t dance.

She and her parents have done an amazing job with marketing and playing to her talents.


Have you heard any of these songs? She has some beautiful melodies and harmonies:
Run (duet w/Ed Sheeran)
The Albatross
Exile (w/Bon Iver)
Nothing New (Phoebe Bridgers)
Marjorie
August
The Last Great American Dynasty
Invisible String
Anti-Hero
Clean
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 21:44     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Love her music. It took me a long time to realize that because I had only heard the basic radio hits (Shake It Off, You Belong With Me, etc.). Her music is so much deeper than that.

Respect her as a business woman. She makes smart decisions and isn’t afraid to speak up.

Neutral on her personality. She has a few friends that (by many accounts) are not very nice, but I’m old enough to understand that a celebrity’s public persona may not always match their private persona, and that the media gets a whole lot of stuff wrong on purpose for clicks. So basically, it’s none of my business.


This up until the personality part.
I was a casual listener until my daughter became a fan and then I took a deeper dive.
As someone over 50 it blows my mind how relatable her music is. While she isn’t the best vocalist in the world, I do love her voice. But the songwriting is key.

She’s an incredible business woman and I love how angry and uncomfortable that makes some men.

She has an incredible stage presence, but I love the times when she’s “off-script” and comes across as awkward and goofy as most of us can be at times. She seems to be really happy and unapologetically enjoying her life right now.

Obviously unless you actually know someone you can’t truly know their personality, but I’ve heard enough first hand accounts of her kindness that I believe she is a good person at heart.
Not saying she is perfect or saintly or anything like that…just that she generally means well and wants to do good in the world.


DP. Well said! I agree with you 100%. And I'm also over 50 with a daughter who is a fan!
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 21:44     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
She's better than that gaga lady
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 21:40     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:Love her music. It took me a long time to realize that because I had only heard the basic radio hits (Shake It Off, You Belong With Me, etc.). Her music is so much deeper than that.

Respect her as a business woman. She makes smart decisions and isn’t afraid to speak up.

Neutral on her personality. She has a few friends that (by many accounts) are not very nice, but I’m old enough to understand that a celebrity’s public persona may not always match their private persona, and that the media gets a whole lot of stuff wrong on purpose for clicks. So basically, it’s none of my business.


+1
My daughter had been on me to listen to her more recent albums (over the last four years or so) and I finally did when TTPD came out. I was utterly blown away by all the songs I had never heard before. Those albums (Midnight, Evermore, Folklore, and TTPD) are brilliant. It's too bad a lot of people dismiss her because of her earlier music, much of which is catchy but basic. She's evolved so much as a singer and songwriter.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 21:09     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She does good things for many people and brings joy around the world. Good for her.


She's famous for donating to food banks and paying her employees very well. She brings a lot of joy to a lot of people, for sure.


Exactly. And, I appreciated she asked people to support Harris.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 19:44     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
I respect and admire her business savvy and her work ethic. I like her music but don’t love it - she’s a talented songwriter but not a great singer.

She seems like a good-hearted person (donating to food banks, treating her employees well) but I dislike her public persona - she comes across as overly curated, immature and a bit stunted. It will be interesting to see if she drops Blake Lively. As careful as she is with her image there’s no way she’s happy being dragged into her mess.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 18:59     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Love her, and I wasn’t a fan until Tortured Poets Dept.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 18:55     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:I think her music is okay. I feel like she has a deep need to create a certain image of herself with fans as one of them. She uses her fans identifying with her to advance her music sales and her image. I feel the same way about that as I did about Oprah when she had her talk show and always talked about her weight. Her hook was that we were supposed to identify with her weight struggles and want to watch her because she was like us - except she was not like us because she was worth hundreds of millions and had a national TV show. Taylor is basically the millennial musical Oprah.


This is such a true observation!

Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 18:51     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Love her. She is a songwriting prodigy and a force for good.

Lol

Sorry meant to add she has written zero memorable or moving melodies and her lyrics read like my journal from 7th grade. She is so dull and uncharismatic I can’t take it.


Maybe her early stuff. Recently no way,
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 18:04     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:Music? No.
Personality? I had no opinion, but since she started with the football guy I have a very negative opinion. Even if she truly cares about him, she should have better judgment about the football damage to him and condoning the whole sport


🤔 What should she do, tell him not to play? He's a grown man.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 18:00     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:She does good things for many people and brings joy around the world. Good for her.


She's famous for donating to food banks and paying her employees very well. She brings a lot of joy to a lot of people, for sure.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 17:58     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
I don't know Taylor Swift, but I admire her business acumen, her songwriting ability, and what seems to me to be her authenticity. I prefer her music that's recorded without AutoTune. She writes songs that speak to a lot of people, and that isn't easy.

So, basically, I like her.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 17:56     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She seems to be a good role model for young girls

How so?


Business acumen and savvy. Kindness. Talent. Incredible work ethic.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 17:55     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:She seems like kind of an oddball and I don’t care for her music that much anymore. But I don’t have anything against her. I like her country music and her earlier pop but my interest dropped off after Reputation.

I like oddballs. She is not an oddball. She is so boring it’s hard to even nail down something to hate about her. Except maybe her bojanxed teeth.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2025 17:55     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
She does good things for many people and brings joy around the world. Good for her.