Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 22:04     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:I'm not a megafan but think she's great. The world is better for her being here.


Yeah, I wouldn't know what to do without her.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 21:22     Subject: Re:Do you like Taylor Swift?
61 y/o male.

I like a lot of her recent albums (Midnights, Evermore, Folklore), more so than her early country music. I think she’s matured as an artist and songwriter.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 21:03     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


Can someone explain what's going on with her and Blake Lively? Why would they stop being friends? (Just a brief synopsis, I really don't know)


https://people.com/justin-baldoni-claims-blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-taylor-swift-pressured-him-8775745
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 20:51     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


Can someone explain what's going on with her and Blake Lively? Why would they stop being friends? (Just a brief synopsis, I really don't know)


They stopped being friends?
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 18:36     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote: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.


Can someone explain what's going on with her and Blake Lively? Why would they stop being friends? (Just a brief synopsis, I really don't know)
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2025 18:16     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
As a Kansas Citian and Chiefs fan, I love her now. She gets some hate but most Chiefs fans either don't care about her or they think it's a fun thing to have "happened for" KC. The mayor loves the attention she's brought to small businesses buy buying and wearing merch.

She is a gazillionaire and throws money at good causes and the people who work with her on tour. They tip verrrry well according to local restaurants.

I like some of her songs and I'm indifferent about others.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:17     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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



Please stop suggesting if I only listened to more of her music I would like it.

Do I get to have an opinion or do you shut that down?



They didn’t tell you to listen to those songs, they asked if you had ever heard them.
It seems there are a fair number of people who define TS by her early music or have only ever heard the radio hits. I was one of them. Songs like the ones mentioned above (and many others that don’t get radio play) are what made me a Swiftie.
I wont name any though since you might feel your opinion is being threatened. Lol


+100
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:15     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


She never asked people to support Harris. But interesting that people think she did.

She said she was supporting Harris after doing her research, and she suggested others do their own research.



Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:15     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:People who think she is a good role model, I'm curious...in what way?

I'm guessing it's business.

I don't have a strong opinion of her but I side eye the constant victim and need to identify with a man so much. I'm also not a fan of her songs that attack other women (Bad Blood, the one about Camille)


She is a good model because:
She truly loves and values her parents and brother.
She doesn't have any children with baby daddies.
She is incredibly generous and donates huge sums to food banks and other charities all over the world.
She is - by all accounts - an amazing employer who treats everyone with whom she comes into contact with respect and kindness.
She's a loyal friend.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:13     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
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 a really interesting comparison I'd never though of. I think I like her music more than you do, but I have always been put off by her relationship with her fans and how she feeds/encourages it, and this offers some insight into why I don't like it.


I do not like it either. I’m really, really sorry to say this but Trump does sort of the same thing with his fans.

The parasocial relationship.

Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 22:08     Subject: Re:Do you like Taylor Swift?
I don’t know her and never will so can’t say.

Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 20:07     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
I have only heard the songs that get airplay and even then just snippets. Based on prior posts maybe I should give the deeper cuts a listen.

I think there are a lot worse role models that young girls could have so I can understand why parents would indulge or encourage being a fan.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 08:54     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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



Please stop suggesting if I only listened to more of her music I would like it.

Do I get to have an opinion or do you shut that down?



They didn’t tell you to listen to those songs, they asked if you had ever heard them.
It seems there are a fair number of people who define TS by her early music or have only ever heard the radio hits. I was one of them. Songs like the ones mentioned above (and many others that don’t get radio play) are what made me a Swiftie.
I wont name any though since you might feel your opinion is being threatened. Lol


NP here. Agree with you on her most played music but most of my favorites never get radio play. Her depth in lyric writing is amazing. I had to listen to her entire albums though, especially Red, Folklore, and TTPS.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 08:29     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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



Please stop suggesting if I only listened to more of her music I would like it.

Do I get to have an opinion or do you shut that down?



They didn’t tell you to listen to those songs, they asked if you had ever heard them.
It seems there are a fair number of people who define TS by her early music or have only ever heard the radio hits. I was one of them. Songs like the ones mentioned above (and many others that don’t get radio play) are what made me a Swiftie.
I wont name any though since you might feel your opinion is being threatened. Lol
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2025 06:34     Subject: Do you like Taylor Swift?
No, I’m not a fan of her music.