I think it’s a good album.
why
The songs are catchy and the one about her husbands dick was hilarious.
It’s crazy it took this long for people to get tired of a 40 year old billionaire singing teen love songs…
Every “good” album was after she broke up with a bf, because that the only relatable experience she has to her fans. Lots of people called that getting engaged/married would be the end of her career.
She simply has nothing in common with her fans anymore. But she’s been a horrible person for decades, especially towards female singers who are younger than her. And now their fans are starting to realize who the problem always was.
Holy fuck, yeah, she’s near 40. I’m near 40.
This reframing has destabilised me.
Yeah. I grew up on country and remember her first CMT music videos during my formative years.
Waaaay before she was famous, and all the teen drama songs were appropriate.
But she’s had a death grip on that genre so long, her current competitors weren’t even born when she released her first album. Legitimately, her first song released 19 years ago at 18, I checked.
That’s like people say all the “versions” are just a cash grab, but it’s more nefarious, for over a decade when a young female artists releases a big album for that demo, Taylor drops a new version to steal sales away from younger artists.
She’s got a pure boomer mentality about it. She’ll never try to bring the next generation on, she intentionally and consistently puts them down so she can maintain her position at the top of the pile.
There’s zero indication she can grow as an artist, and more and more people are considering that sad.
Shes gonna go from the world’s biggest start to a joke very fast, but it’ll still take years to really start.
I’m convinced shit like paper straws is just to turn people against saving the planet.
The fucking straws aren’t great, but the real problem has always been the oligarchs and corporations.
So they come up with stuff that won’t help, but will get people pissed at climate activists.
Shit’s so obvious but no one ever talks about it. It’s the same principle as means testing, divide and conquer
The straw is the last thing I tend to worry about getting the sorta carbonated water that doesn’t have enough syrup in it so you’re basically drinking carbonated municipal water supply with some chemical colorants.
Maybe I’m spoiled, but the biggest city around here also has the best water
I remember something where Tina Fey wrote a bit on SNL parodying swift and someone interviewed Taylor and she said something to the effect of “as Barbara Walters says there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women” about Fey in regards to a pretty gentle and innocuous comedy bit. Which was funny because Barbara Walters was a shitty person who broke down other women too. I honestly think Swift isn’t super different from Kanye. They’re both rich, self-obsessed assholes who have zero sense of humor about themselves and zero real-world awareness. A lot of people have known she was a piece of shit for a long time but if you ever said anything about it you were called a liar, sexist, jealous, or we’re just doxxed by swifties
At least Kanye West’s lack of awareness stems from him refusing to take medication to stabilize himself (on top of being a petty bitch who’ll die on any hill he’s standing on, even if he found himself there unintentionally).
Taylor Swift is just milquetoast, “I don’t understand why the poors are complaining” rich apparently.
I see where Swift was coming from there, I always found the “roasting someone” phenomenon quite strange. Being horrible to one another isn’t something worth celebrating, in my view.
I’m not a Taylor Swift fan, but I do have one thing in common with her: I wanna fuck her boyfriend. Maybe she should sing songs about that.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Apparently she made an incredibly juvenile song about how big his dick is?
Like, not just a song about his dick and that is juvenile. But a song about him that sounds like a 7th grader wrote it.
A bad attempt at Sabrina Carpenter’s whole deal.
So yeah, maybe you’ll like at least one song on it…
Man I sure hope so. Seems like every time she farts sideways it’s front page news. Enough already.
The remarkable amount of new holeage she’d have to get added to actually fart sideways would make that news, yes
Wait she farts sideways? Like it comes out of her hip? That is news!
As in, lifts a cheek to sneak one. 🤌🏼
Ah, we call that “popping a sneaker” here
Oh! I never got that expression. But I’m a loud and proud type. With so much misery in the world it seems wrong not to revel in the joy of a good fart. Like throwing away dinner during a famine.
Your chosen metaphor for a good fart is a food one? Uh… That’s nasty. 😅🥹
She’s a billionaire that’s engaged to someone that appears to be a Magat. How is anyone surprised?
engaged to someone that appears to be a Magat
Where do you get this from? I’m not super caught-up with Taylor Swift’s lore, but I know that Kelce is largely progressive, and has quietly supported Kamala.
I could be wrong, and I know he’s left on some things, but it’s mostly the refusal to denounce things said by the more outwardly right wing teammates he has (Butker) and apparent happiness at playing in front of Trump at the super bowl. If he’s not actually maga, he’s as least centrist enough to be ok with magats.
His previous girlfriends were black, that’s actually part of the controversy of this new album - the little slights against black women that Travis used to be interested in or date, like Meg the Stallion. She previously was criticized for being kinda racist with Shake it Off music video and Wildest Dreams video (and a little with the T Swizzle thing), and lack of black staff, friends, etc. Afaik she has not done much to remedy this.
But I actually agree that both of them are at least MAGA-fishing and doing something weird. I dont think their relationship is healthy, I think they objectify each other. And that’s why she got bad plastic surgery and messed up her eyes a little and face a little, because she’s so insecure with this man for some reason and is trying to overcompensate with trad wife stuff. It isn’t healthy at all imo.
Her saying she turned down the Superbowl just in case Travis might be there, and that him playing is like being on a battlefield and that it’s more important to focus on him - who tf is that? Not the Taylor who wrote “The Man,” surely.
“won’t let us forget”
… Thafuq is this bullshit wording? Grow a spine or STFU, drama pet.
This article has a unique-looking link and I couldn’t find it anywhere on on the HuffPo site. Why?
I didn’t know Lemmy hated Taylor Swift. If I heard that, I would have guessed it was because she is “too mainstream,” but now I also see that it is because she is rich and is in a relationship with someone not politically pure enough.
I also suppose that endorsing Harris in the last election probably turned people off.
Lemmy hates her cause she’s obscenely rich, not because she’s female
She’s also kinda racist so
Hating rich people isn’t weird, simping for them is
It’s a platform catering towards techy middle aged men that can’t relate to her story at all. Of course, there’s always the bullshit about “of course I can’t relate to being a greedy billionaire” but it’s every single aspect, namely, never having been a teenage girl.
These guys will then go on to act like the teen girl story is a gimmick and that she should do something more mature, then scroll and geek out over painting some 40K figurines. Spoiler alert, we never stopped being kids, we just got wrinkly and gray.
I don’t get Swift. 300,000,000 women do. Clearly, she’s striking a chord somewhere significant.
Swift arguably never got to be a normal teenage girl either, and/or is still mentally a teenage girl. She was pushed into stardom from a young age and was surrounded by yes-men so she was never challenged, therefore never given an opportunity to grow.
Also, there’s a difference between having stereotypically immature hobbies and being actually emotionally and creatively immature lmao
She has been given every opportunity and resource to do better, more than the billions of other people in the world.
Is this your hobby? Thinking about why Taylor Swift is bad?
I dabble lol. She’s an interesting case study and sometimes it’s nice to dissect something that’s trivial
You’re criticizing thinking now?
the demo on lemmy to me mostly seems to be techie 20 somethings.
That might be biased because your own age puts you into groups of interest to others your own age. I tried to be encompassing with “middle age” because, well, that probably includes me, a 30-something teenager. But that being said, I have felt there’s been a slow swing to at least be inclusive of 18-25 year olds. But I also have confirmation bias there because I can’t hang with the kids’ slang anymore, so it stands out when I see it.
Digression: I’d like to do a study on “what’s the funniest number” because it’s both age and time dependent. 69 has been funny for a long time, but for boomers and older, was there any other funny number? Gen x and some millennial would likely say 42 (Hitchikers guide to the galaxy). Other millennial might hark back to SpongeBob with 24/25. But what has obviously gotten me curious is 6-7. Of course, my assumptions stem only from my own observations and I could be missing large entries.
I’m a 54-yo techie. There seems to be far more people my age and older than I ever saw on reddit. Part of the reason I say that is so many mention their age when appropriate in context. There was an Ask Lemmy thread the other day where you almost had to state your age and I felt on the mid-younger end. Weird.
Also, there’s so many joke and memes that I would think only Millennials or even back to GenX would get.
“As god as my witness, I thought turkey’s could fly.”
Loads of people will get that reference. And that aired in 1978!
Got to say, Lemmy doesn’t feel like a hivemind-type place the way Reddit sometimes does — at least not to me.
If people love her, that’s fine. I’d say she’s definitely more talented than a lot of vacuous pop out there. But the level of adoration does seem a bit cult-like.
Not sure if anyone saw her on Graham Norton, but she came across as a bit self-involved, and it was painful watching the other guests fawn over her. Lewis Capaldi, with his down-to-earth humour and unfiltered honesty (plus his mild Tourette’s), was a total breath of fresh air in comparison.
She’s talented in the same way that McDonald’s is talented. She’s popular and great at marketing, but her singing and songwriting is not of any real substance
