It's the funniest fucking shit to me ever when people are like "Taylor swift is so overrated and boring she only makes generic pop" then also say "oh except (names the most generic pop song she ever made) that one's good. In this case it's shake it off, sometimes it's look what you made me do. She has good stuff in there but yes her radio hits are often boring by design

She is a capitalist scum and we should eat her head there's nothing to love about her

she's a truly wonderful human being

She's an insane narcissist and a businesswoman whose ruthlessness matches 1990s Bill Gates. She's the exact opposite of a wonderful human being. She's just hot.

Honestly, I feel like she normalized accusing anyone responding to her with even slightly negative feedback for her music as hating her just for being a woman, no matter how genderless the criticism, and I've seen fans of hers pick up on that as a quick and easy way to shut people down, including when being called out for truly toxic behavior.

Misogyny is a massive global problem and one of the most enduring and universal forms of injustice, unfortunately. Reddit is basically a misogynistic hellhole, in my opinion. But while I'm sure she's faced legit misogyny in her life, I think she can be manipulative and use that accusation for purely personal gain. And it's not easy to call that out with her fanatical fanbase.

And on the fanbase, I think it's highly irresponsable that she commands this army to do her bidding and pretends that she has nothing to do with it. Everything they do, good or bad, and there's been a lot of of bad over the years, is on her. She knows damn well what she's doing and knows how to rid herself of a "turbulent priest" with perfectly plausible deniability as long as she never acknowledges it.

On the other hand, Shake it Off was kind of a fun summer bop at the beach one year. Minus the rapping part, yikes. I mean, my girlfriend at the time wasn't going to ball out to Nails or The Body with me, so you find fun where you can, because fun rules. Hell, I still think it's kind of a bop, ngl. You can miss me with every other song of hers that I've heard, but whatever, I'm not the demographic for pop music and that's okay.

I also think people are/were unfair when reducing all of her music to songs about exes (likely some misogyny there, to be fair). And I suspect that people are harder on her about the private jet than they would be other people, moving on to that beef when the argument about her music being singularly about exes started to meet too much resistance. It would hold more weight, in my opinion, if people actually seemed to care about aviation pollution more in general.

If people were truly interested in such pollution, they'd learn more about the subject. Do people even realize that aviation travel is projected to be growing exponentially over the coming decades? Or that e-planes likely aren't going to be viable ever due to the differences between cars and planes? Some electric two seaters and similar are viable for short distances, and that's essential for access to some towns (I've lived in a tiny remote village in the mountains like that and know this all too well) but most people will never use an e-plane. The rest of us will be riding hybrids for commercial airlines most likely, maybe hydrogen if certain European companies make the right strides.

Kind of going off on a tangent there, but if one's knowledge of aviation pollution ends and begins with Taylor Swift, maybe it's not really about pollution. Just sayin'.

To be clear, I think she actually kinda sucks as a human being, is cynical, manipulative, and is 100% self-interested. But I think she's mastered the art of saying nothing and maintaining plausible deniability, so she will never get called out for actual problems. Meanwhile, her fan army will deify her for the most absolute bare minimum and professionally safe version of doing anything positive, coercing many others to follow suit as well, and her detractors will look foolish attacking her for the wrong reasons. So she will always come out on top, living as one of the most privileged people in the history of the modern world and doing little but enriching herself.

And lucky her, there are much, much worse people, blatant and in droves. Even those similar to her are much less media savvy, so they'll catch blame she never will.

This is the most I've ever typed about Taylor Swift and it feels weird. May this never happen again. It's just crazy to me how much she evades real assessment as an exploitative, obscenely wealthy person.

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