#example like taylor swift

[latenings]

saw someone's tags say "isnt it allowed anymore to lovingly hate on something your friend loves, can't we not like something just because" but listen. for me ok. i find it easy to loving annoy a friend by not liking something they love in real life every once in a while but then online there's so much hate and discourse it just straight up makes me uncomfortable. some ppl here make it their personality to hate on something like how are you not tired?!

[iwatcheditbegin]

I know i’ve said it before. But this discourse about the ethics regarding taylor swift being a billionaire are so disingenuous. She doesn’t have a makeup line, clothing line, brand endorsements.

The bulk of her income is entirely from her own talent as a musician. She has not exploited anyone. She’s also not even close to being a cash billionaire when you look at the numbers it’s like half of that ( bc it’s hard to become a billionaire without shady shit) . Taylor is known to pay her employees well. By percentage what she gives away to charity and compensates her team with is unheard of. She gave 10% of her net worth away in bonuses to everyone who worked on her tour. That’s just what we know of.

I’m not even saying this as a fan, but you cannot look at someone like her and how she moves and compare that to other billionaires and oligarchs.

I’m all for wealthy people paying their fair share. I hate capitalism and the current system but I do think she’s a good example of doing the best to be ethical within the current system

[gaveyouigaveyoui]

what is your favorite lyric in which taylor indirectly says 'i love you'

[nevermythologized]

i think there is something really weird and "don't ask don't tell" about the way that we treat celebrities possible sexualities. like it is perfectly normal and okay to assume a celebrity is straight and not invasive at all but to speculate some gayness is seen as a crime. as if the worst thing a straight person could be seen as is gay.

like it is weird overall to talk about the sexualities of people you don't know, but if you are already having that conversation i think that avoiding any sort of possible queerness is rooted in homophobia. i think that it is an ingrained, socially taught, homophobic response to react negatively to speculating that someone is gay.

like billie eilish for example. i always thought she gave queer vibes, i was able to spot this because i am a lesbian and am part of the in-group where we have to rely on "vibes" and implied meaning to figure out if someone is gay. when she "came out" she literally stated that she thought people already knew. maybe straight people didn't know because they assume straight until they are beaten in the face with a rainbow but she thought the queers were in on it. she expressed frustration that she had to explicitly put it out there, that the only way she could actually be seen as queer and a member of this community is by stating directly, to a media source, "i am queer".

i think that is a bad precedent to set! i think we should be more open and willing to accept that tons of people are queer (especially in the performing arts like are you kidding). if you think it is insulting or demeaning to suggest that an artist is queer you need to reflect on your subconscious biases. why exactly is it bad to be gay?

i also think that queer artists who are not comfortable being out to the straight public would love to be acknowledged and recognized by fellow members of the community. queerness is something that is signaled and implied and flagged to members of the group, someone does not have to explicitly state that they are queer to be queer. we need to stop policing identity and we need to stop labeling everyone straight as a default.

this community should be open and accepting. we should welcome queerness and embrace those who are exploring what that means, who are maybe not comfortable with judgemental straight people knowing but still want to find community in being and acting queer.

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

ok i know that there are like very conservative areas where this is broadly speaking true………. but this is an insane thing to say as a universal fact lol

[lilywalkers]

breaking my silence. every time i see a pop culture reference in a book that is clearly meant to market the book to a fan base i physically gag!

[satellitesunset]

I attribute the belief (that's mostly present on tiktok) that the story a song tells must be solely rooted in nonfictional events that occurrd to the songwriter to taylor swift. it's not only abt her strictly autobiographical approach (it's natural for your art to be derived from personal experience). but rather the the culture (that she created !); from speculations to who they're abt to. to attempting to work them into the story/timeline she constructed. that is det​ri​men​tal to music (and on a larger scale literature) analysis. it convinced most that is the norm and every record must be 100% based on a true experience.

[quasi-normalcy]

Actually if I saw a celebrity in public, my only thought would probably be, "Hey that guy looks kind of like a celebrity." Or I just wouldn't recognize them at all.

[locklylemybeloved]

i seriously need people to stop hating on olivia rodrigo and taylor swift and sabrina carpenter.

please stop putting down other people because they listen to pop artists. you arent a cooler and better person because you only listen to rock - this is coming from someone who loves rock music. you arent a cooler and better person because you relentlessly call successful female artists and their listeners “basic.” you arent a cooler and better person than me because you come to school wearing an 80s rock band tshirt and i come to school in my taylor swift merch.

remember when obscure bands were hated on? yknow how even now when someone listens to indie or “underground” music, people mock them for being qUiRkY and DiFfErEnT? wasnt that annoying and doesnt that really piss you off?

yeah. its stupid. the fact that some of yall are out here insulting people because of the sound waves they project into the holes in their head is fucking insane.

“i dont like pop music it bores me its blah blah blah whatever ” ok. cool. dont listen to it then.

“olivia isnt talented shes just like (insert another female artist)” ok. cool. between you and her, which one has three grammys?

“i dont like that artist her songwriting is boring her lyrics are stupid and bad and BASIC.” cool. great. DONT FUCKING LISTEN TO THEM.

just stop being an asshole it doesnt look good on you :/

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

One of the things that I’ve found to be really interesting while going through old Taylor interviews is how frequently writers will compare Taylor to her peers who had “scandals” in the media, bash them and uplift her and then try to get Taylor to bash them, but she never does.

[theholidayslingerlikebadperfume]

shawn mendes' recent comments about "trying to be really brave" and "figuring out" something "very personal" with regards to his sexuality is so... interesting to me, esp with that "insider" quote about how taylor's sexuality "wouldn't be questioned" if she was "shawn mendes" or whatever point that "insider" thought they were making... because shawn is sounding more and more bisexual by the fucking minute.

[bloodymyhands]

aegon and alicent being mirrors of each other in a twisted sort of way, he's the son most like her but also the one she "likes" the least. what an interesting, delicious dynamic, i absolutely love it

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

like on the one hand language matters and i too sometimes find slang trends annoying and/or concerning and on the other hand sometimes women do actually make jokes and talk shit on the internet with their friends and it is not actually that deep and commentary on phenomena gets to a weird point where i’m like i don’t know how “these idiot losers on the internet using a two to four word phrase they will have moved on from in a year are basically the primary cause of patriarchal oppression” is the feminist take. like sometimes i start to think the plot has been lost.

[juliasimongf]

I'm convinced that all the swifties losing their minds over her new album have never read real poetry or have read any 'tortured poets', because if they did they would know that she absolutely isn't one. I'm not by any means knowledgeable about poetry. However, I did spend my whole morning yesterday reading Anna Akhmatova's Rekviem and crying, and I don't know how anyone who has read poetry like that can go around calling Taylor a 'tortured poet'.

[anamericansinger]

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[kingofmyborrowedheart]

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