I bet ol’Taylor don’t care one bit.
She busy.
Recent commentary has criticized her for poor time management and thoughtlessness, indeed for going out on too many dates - with third party reports that her paramours are reluctant to commit. Her publicist has issued a statement of her intention to keep cruising, attributable to her inability and unwillingness to stop moving. Ms Swift has claimed to possess credible mental imagery of song lyrics affirming a positive outcome.
I’ve read before that the NYT will create controversial articles like this in its lifestyle section. But the ones they mentioned were about a recipe with a controversial ingredient, a “fad” that is provocative but not actually common, and stuff like that.
Still, anything about Swift gets eyeballs and money rolling in right now. So maybe?
This is the sort of thing I would expect on a popular Swiftie forum or chat room, maybe in a “speculation” section, with LGBT fans arguing if she might possibly be one of them. Not actual news. But if there are papers hiring people specifically to cover Taylor Swift news, then this could make sense.
I’m reminded of that ridiculous semi-puff piece they published by one of their reporters getting completely snowed by the convicted (and probable charming sociopath) Elizabeth Holmes. They need an executive editor with a little less taste for cheap sensationalism.
You should see the think piece the Economist put out after her ex-man brought his new girlfriend.
One who is too high minded to be concerned with the common business of selling newspapers?
Even setting aside any non-commercial journalistic or ethical ideals, aren’t there multiple markets for different kinds of journalism? One of which would be a brand that differentiates itself from the National Enquirer?
The NYT is trash. I’ve been saying it for years. They’ve turned into nothing much better than a tabloid.
They may release a good story once in awhile but they are not what they used to be. They should be embarrassed to have published that garbage.
Haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate
…hate
Taylor created the perfect meme response to the haters last night.
(This was her reaction to a dumb joke about her by the emcee.)
It seemed to me that the writer was saying….Taylor Swift has been consistently strident in her support of LGBTQ communities and their issues. Because I’m incapable of understanding why anyone would do anything for any reason other than pure self-interest, I must therefore conclude that she’s secretly gay.
I would think it a really bad idea to piss of Taylor Swift’s fan base.
Maybe it is a government mind control conspiracy (I wish I was making that up):
The Department of Defense clapped back at Fox News host Jesse Watters on Wednesday after he said Taylor Swift could be a “psyop” for the Pentagon.
“I wonder who got to her from the White House or wherever,” Watters said on his show Tuesday night. “Who makes that initial handshake.”
Waters was referencing a partnership between Swift and Vote.org intended to encourage young people to register to vote.
The remark spawned conspiracy theories suggesting Swift could be a government asset or part of a broader information campaign.
Oh, Romeo
Here’s a Facebook post I received which just truly says it all:
Posted by Meagan K. Hall
While this might sound like a fandom post for Taylor Swift, it’s not.
It’s a remark about how social media sways public opinion and how the patriarchy is still alive and well in American society today.
If you’re not listening to Taylor, you cannot objectively claim a lack of talent. You cannot objectively claim she’s overrated. And you definitely cannot claim to not like her “genre” (unless you listen solely to like death metal or trap).
Taylor has recorded 10 studio albums in 17 years. She has fluidly moved between country, pop, rock, synth, hip hop, folk, alternative, and indie genres.
She has written or co-written 243 songs, some in collaboration with or even for such names like: Little Big Town, Miley Cyrus, Sugarland, The Civil Wars, and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
In her 200 million records sold, Taylor has won 324 awards, including 12 Grammys, 23 MTV Video Music Awards, 40 American Music Awards, 40 Billboard Music Awards, 12 Country Music Awards, and an Emmy.
She is the most-awarded artist of all times at the AMAs and BMAs, and she ties with Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, and Paul Simon for most Album of the Year Grammys.
Swift was “the most streamed artist of 2023 on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music; the first act to place number one on the year-end Billboard top artists list in three different decades (2009, 2015 and 2023); and the first living artist to simultaneously chart five albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200.”
Rolling Stone described Taylor as “a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for verse-chorus-bridge architecture,” and scholars and critics have compared her to literary figures such as Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and John Keats, as well as to modern songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney.
Over 20 universities include a Taylor Swift course in their catalog, including Harvard, Mizzou, Berkeley, Stanford, and Brigham Young.
Taylor has acted in five movies, headlined six tours, and can play guitar and piano. She has developed, written, and directed several of her own music videos.
She has influenced the music business by revitalizing vinyl records, championing artists’ rights on streaming services, and changing the way label contracts are written. Her journey to take back her intellectual property by re-recording her first six albums is one of the best business and personal decisions any artist has made regarding rights.
She’s not just a talented performer and savvy businesswoman. She is also very human and fights for things she believes in. Taylor speaks up for the rights of women, LGBTQ, and artists.
She has donated millions to charitable relief and philanthropic efforts, as well as to the arts. She generously gave millions of her revenue in bonuses to her Eras Tour team.
She was sexually assaulted by a DJ in Colorado and reported it. The DJ was terminated and sued Taylor for $3 million in damages, so she counter-sued for a symbolic $1 and spent over two years in a legal battle that ended in a jury deciding in her favor. Since then, Taylor has been even more active in fighting for the rights for women to be heard.
She genuinely enjoys her fans and has fun leaving clues and hints in her music to keep her fans engaged and like they’re part of the story. She always seems sincerely delighted to be doing what she’s doing.
Her 17 years in the industry have proven her talent. It shows that she’s earned every fan she has and dollar she’s made. (And if you think she’s only country-pop, then you need to spend a day with Folklore or Evermore.)
If you don’t like her, it’s because our society still goes after successful women in a way that men avoid. The media turns on celebrities - especially women - who dare to do things like countersue a sexual assault case, speak against corrupt politicians, or not laugh at misogyny.
I will never apologize for being enchanted by this one. She is a poet, and she’s possibly the most self-aware artist I’ve ever heard speak.
(ETA: I did not pay for this post. I did not anticipate the shares. And I wasn’t out to seek attention. Why strangers feel the need to message me rude things because I posted on my personal page is beyond me. This is why we can’t have nice things.)
Someone really needs to explain the Taylor Swift phenomenon to her stalker. Leaving court and going directly to her dumpster is pretty wack. I hope she’s investing in a full time investigator to stalk the stalker.
I think it’s time we brought this thread back to the music. Speaking to these two comments…
There’s a movie on DIsney+ called Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions in which she performs all of folklore live and talks about it with her two collaborators. It looks like almost all the tracks have been uploaded to youtube - search for Long Pond with the track name.
I don’t like crowds, and the last time I overcame that for a live performance was Bob Dylan - I think that was before Taylor Swift was born. I think she’s better than Dylan.
For a sense of how charismatic she is on stage, I don’t think this has been linked in the thread. This is when she was only mid-20s, from the 1989 tour.
I can’t believe how bad the songs you listed sounded on my laptop. This is in noway a criticism of her but an observation of my laptop. I had to plug headphones in to listen to them. Massive improvement. Her voice must be near the resonant frequency of the laptop speakers. Again, this is in noway a criticism of her but an observation of my laptop.
I’d like to see her try out different producers to see if they could pull out more of her natural vocal talent.