#taylor swift southport

[sprnklersplashes]

I am going to say something that might piss people on this site off, and that is that the stabbing at a Taylor Swift themed event in Southport does not exist in a vacuum.

It exists in a world where a joke about bringing a nail gun to the Eras tour to shoot fans gets 400k likes on TikTok, or where a reel about crashing a plane full of Swifties gets 200k likes on Instagram. It exists in a world where, on this very website, the one that promotes itself as rational and reasonable, someone says that "Taylor Swift and her fans should all die violent horrible deaths" and people applauded it. It exists in a world where, during TTPD release week men were in Swifties' comment sections declaring they would beat their daughters and girlfriends if they ever so much as listened to one of her albums. And it exists in a world where this week, fans of a TV show (which I will not name because that is not the point) sent death threats to a girl on Twitter for daring to be a fan of both their beloved show and Taylor Swift.

I don't give a fuck what your opinion of Taylor Swift is. I don't care if you think her music is grating, I don't care if you think she is the worst thing to happen to humanity since Eve ate the god damn apple. This is the dark side of stan culture that no-one talks about; where dislike of an artist becomes so obsessive that it becomes normal, even funny, to joke about killing their fans, because "it's just online, it's just a joke". It isn't. It is rarely ever "just online".

And yes I am going to be That Person and say that you can complain about Swift's brand of feminism and debate her position as a feminist icon all day long, at the end of the day, her name is still synonymous with girls. It doesn't take a genius to work out who this event was geared at.

I am not going to sit and claim that by simply not liking Taylor Swift you directly caused this. I would encourage you to step back, look at the bigger picture of stan culture, including obsessive dislike of an artist, and ask yourself how much this culture has enabled this. If making jokes on tiktok about killing someone over a pop star is normalised, how much of a leap is it to attacking kids with a knife at a fan event?

and of course there is the fact that the british media didn't even wait until those kids were buried before using this event to spread their racist, anti-immigrant agenda despite the race of the attacker not being known. all I can say to that is I am sickened and disappointed but not shocked.

[iavender-haze]

so scarlet it was... maroon

one thousand followers special

[idratherburnmywholelifedown]

Southport is my home town. I grew up there, went to school there, played there. My family and friends are there. My grandparents live less than a minute away from where the attack happened.

I can’t even begin to comprehend the attack on a group of children just wanting to dance to their favourite singer. I don’t understand how somebody could be filled with such hatred.

I am shocked and disgusted by the actions of the attacker, but also by the actions of those who turned a peaceful vigil to remember those poor girls into a political protest. Their actions against Muslims and the mosque which they were attacking are abhorrent and, in my opinion, they just as bad as the attacker himself.

The pain of the family and friends of the victims is unimaginable. The pain everybody in my home town is feeling is palpable. I have no words. This is not the Southport I know. This is not the Southport I grew up in.

Please, if you can, support the families of the victims by donating using the link below. This fundraiser has been verified and all of the money will go to the girls’ families and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital who have been integral in saving many children’s lives.

[claraameliapond]

Taylor Swift pays tribute to children killed in UK stabbing attack at dance class, saying she's 'completely in shock' - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-30/taylor-swift-pays-tribute-to-southport-stabbing-victims/104161890

[ohcarolina]

👏 people 👏 shouldn't 👏 have 👏 to 👏 fear 👏 for 👏 their 👏 lives 👏 when 👏 doing 👏 something 👏 they 👏 love 👏

[wouldvecouldveshouldve]

fuck anyone who’s made jokes about murdering swifties, mocking taylors’ privacy & jet usage, the eras tour and most of all, wishing death upon taylor herself. idc if it was a joke. idc if you didn’t have any ‘bad intentions’. just. fuck you.

[possiblyunhinged]

Nothing screams patriotic quite like destroying the streets of working-class towns in England.

These "freedom fighters" couldn't get any dumber or more desperate for validation from other men if they tried. The Mother of one of the children literally said stop, and these men who are "concerned" with women's safety spoke over her, like real men, and continued to puke up their racist rhetoric.

If they want to know why being patriotic is impossible for the rational person, these boiled hams must look in the mirror. It isn't multiculturalism that's failed Britain—it's them. They've aborted every "British value" themselves because they've let themselves get rage-baited by vertically challenged polyps on the internet because they can't work out how to create meaning in their own lives.

Taylor Swift fans have spent the past few days raising hundreds of thousands for Alder Hey whilst these 'men' went to their offie, picked up some beers and used the murder of children to justify more violence xoxo

[evermoredeluxe]

https://x.com/NME/status/1824394644601573613?t=yT1QRytgdo5lzTJHmIU3kg&s=19

not at all surprised!

[escapismqueen]

Important- please read

This is a post very different from what I would usually make, but I feel the need to make it. I’m from Southport and yesterday there was an atrocious attack at a children’s Taylor Swift themed dance class. Three children have sadly died and many more are injured and reportedly many in critical condition as well as two adults.

Of course this hits close to home because this actually happened in my home town and we’re all in utter disbelief at what has happened. I cant even begin to imagine what the families and victims are going through right now and my thoughts and prayers are constantly with them. Violence needs to end. Knife crime needs to end. There are children who went to a class to have fun and they will never go home.

Yesterday was very up in the air about what had happened, but I will always have the memory of watching the news and hearing it confirmed that two children had been killed (it’s now three !) . Me and my mum burst into tears. You think things like this could never happen, but unfortunately they do, and they happen all too often.

Keep them all in your thoughts and prayers please ❤️and may those three innocent little lives forever rest in peace.

So please, if you can, share, donate with this link, and please keep all these little ones and two adults in your thoughts and prayers. This should not have happened. https://www.justgiving.com/page/swifties-for-southport

[pedropascalsx]

hello friends,

i wanted to update you all on the last few days, so i have been working with alder hey hospital following the devastating incident at the dance class on monday.

i made a fundraiser and today it hit £359,000+ in donations; these donations are going directly to alder hey hospital where there charity team are distributing the funds for funeral costs, long term treatment, hospital equipment and to help every family involved.

the response has been so overwhelming but incredible. i thought you’d all like to see how the entire world has come together to support the families and loved ones of those personally affected by what happened.

i have been collecting presents for all the kids that attended the class and a courier is coming to my house next week to collect them ready to distribute them, so everyone one of those kids knows we are thinking of them.

i’m also linking the fundraiser below if anyone wants to donate.

it has been a very long hard week, but i’m blown away by the resilience and strength i’ve witnessed over the last few days.

xx cristina

[deadcactuswalking]

Southport

So… pop music was in the news this past week. This is, as we’ve seen over the recent events with Charli xcx, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar all delivering popular music phenomenons in 2024, something I typically welcome with open arms. Music is one of my greatest passions and having that level of “expertise” actually come into relevance outside of Eurovision, award season or the Christmas #1, generally makes me very happy. This week, however, a pop star was in the news - through no fault of her own - for reasons I hate. Given that this is a blog about the UK charts, I deemed it necessary to discuss this, but it’s really not something I’d want to ever happen in this country, let alone as a direct result of an artform I hold dear.

On Monday afternoon on the 29th of July, a young man who I won’t name for his family’s sake entered a workshop for children based around yoga and dancing, with a Taylor Swift theme, that was located in Southport, Merseyside. He, for unclear reasons, committed a mass stabbing, most victims of which were children. Three little girls, none over the age of nine years old, were murdered whilst in attendance of this Taylor Swiift dance club. I do find myself particularly desensitised to news, especially true crime, but this was exceptional in that these were children engaging with music they loved on a considerable level, ensuing it as a passion.

I have spoken in great detail and nuance about Taylor’s art and public image but one thing that cannot be denied is that for many young people, Taylor will be the first popstar they know. She’ll be singing the first songs these kids recognise and love, perhaps the first album they listen to all the way through is a Taylor Swift record. For the 22 children there who did survive, that passion is now associated with the unjust slaughter of their friends. No motive has been identified as of yet, but as it stands, these three precious little girls were killed because they, and/or their parents, decided to engage with the music they enjoyed by attending a yoga and dance workshop revolving around an artist. There’s no grand statement to be made there other than that I’m heartbroken and horrified for the families and friends of the victim, as well as even Taylor, for this tragedy to emerge from something so innocuous.

I would have commented on this story regardless of its aftermath because of how tragic it is and through its connection to how pop music is consumed and appreciated in the UK. However, the reaction to this from a sector of society has made me sick to my stomach in ways that news has failed to do for a long time. I simply cannot comprehend how rioting and destroying the town these children called home and the families are living in during their grieving period, in the name of misinformation you found posted on X by anonymous far-right accounts, is in any way bringing closure to those affected by the tragedy. I don’t understand how attacking a mosque makes any difference when the murderer is a 17-year-old Rwandan. I really refuse to come to grips with how attacking the police already preoccupied with an unusual and exceptionally violent incident in an otherwise peaceful town that you have bussed over to in order to spread hatred, is going to bring the justice you speak of.

There is no defence for the violence committed during and after vigils for the deceased, by those who have so densely distorted the facts that this tragedy somehow becomes about them and their twisted, hateful ideology. For the racist pieces of shit who believe that any ethnicity or religion is the major factor behind these murders, I hope you know that you’ve been lied to. For those people, I hope you know that the same government you critique for controlling the media or whitewashing the “concerned” public, contains MPs  who have made it their career to manufacture vile rhetoric regarding immigration and feed it to you until you start believing in it. For those people, I hope that if you ever read, hear or watch the inevitable court trial for the murderer, that you see the parallels everyone else sees between you and him. For those people, I hope and pray that Hell’s best seats are available for when the lack of pushback in your echo chamber to your faux outrage flies you too close to the sun.

No amount of violence will ever give the fascists dignity. Children everywhere should be able to enjoy and further their passions without the fear of violence and hate encroaching on their ability to do so. I love pop music, and to think of a younger me or a younger version of any of my music-loving friends and acquaintances, being killed for caring about art, does not just sadden me but angers me in knowing that the next victim of violence will have their circumstances warped to fit worthless ideologues. Stay safe and thank you for reading.

[wouldvecouldveshouldve]

Taylor’s Instagram story on the incident in Southport:

[possiblyunhinged]

I’m sorry, but you can’t remove the context of class from any discourse about the riots in Southport last night. To remove it is to remove any desire to understand what is happening, and without understanding, there will be no resolution.

Working-class, disenfranchised men are being exploited by the likes of Tate, Robinson, and Farage and are galvanised into ‘righteous’ anger.

There’s nothing righteous about rage based on fallacy. I doubt any of these men could explain why they were there beyond little soundbites regurgitated into their mouths by Tate and co.

'We WaNt OuR cOuNtRy BaCk'... screamed by men whose country never has given two shits about them and will guzzle on any privately educated men who tell them what they want to hear... Free Thinkers who happen to all think the exact same...

The men last night throwing bricks at the police with alcohol in their hands were not mourning children. They are not concerned about the safety of women. They are scared little boys attempting to disguise themselves as men. They have no purpose, and I don’t say that to be cruel, but it’s obvious.

If a middle-class person were saying this, maybe I’d have an issue with it. However, we won’t fix this level of disenfranchisement by pretending that class isn’t the ruling factor in what is happening—and fundamentally, how working-class people are treated.

I grew up thinking that working-class people had each other’s backs and looked after those in need. The women who lived around me were the most selfless people I’ve ever met. It’s embarrassing to see what’s happening and how cruel and empty people are becoming. Immune to facts. Immune to others’ suffering.

Until the government actually makes changes to people’s quality of life, situations like this are going to get worse. And frankly, while I understand the responses from political figures, only speaking to these groups of people when things like this happen isn’t helpful.

Robinson, Tate, and Farage fill the silence that the government maintains towards working-class people.

Yet again, I know some will say, ‘No excuse’… Okay then, let’s remove context from everything and never try to understand why these things happen. Frankly, I’d like to live in a society capable of change and reason, not one more concerned with groups fighting to see who is the most virtuous.

Taylor Swift fans have raised over 200k for Alder Hey while these 'men' nurse a hangover.

[wisteria-nights]

https://www.justgiving.com/page/swifties-for-southport

Hey there! Unfortunately there was a heinous and horrific attack in Southport, UK yesterday on a young group of Swifties all below age 10. There were in total 9 injured and 3 children have sadly passed away. This was at a Taylor Swift themed dance class for children specifically.

@spoonfulofswift (Holly) and @metsswift (Cristina) over on Twitter have created a JustGiving page, all donations are to go to Alder Hey Charity where many of the children and other injured are being treated.

The goal has been reached however any additional funds will still be going direct to the charity and to the families who’ve been affected to relieve financial stress, cover funeral costs etc. If anyone is in any position where they can donate even just a small amount it would be greatly appreciated.

Rest in Peace to the 3 baby swifties Bebe, Alice and Elsie😔🫶🏻

[rebecca--barnes]

Yesterday there was a fatal mass stabbing in Southport, England at a Taylor Swift Themed dance workshop for 6-11 year olds. Unfortunately three young girls lost their life and numerous others are in critical condition.

Below is a link to a fundraiser created by swifties for the families affected by this horrific attack. Even if it’s just a small amount it makes a huge difference.

My heart goes out to the victims and families 🫶🏼🩷

[blorbodiaz]

not my usual happy posts, but i need to bring attention to something.

today in the UK, a 17 year old boy walked into a CHILDRENS taylor swift themed dance class/workshop, stabbing nine and killing two children so far.

i can’t can beging to comprehend. my heart goes out to the baby swifties that were at the event who just wanted to have fun and ended up having their lives ripped away from them.

a local taylor swift facebook group is raising funds to help the families effected by this horrific event. if you can, PLEASE donate or at least share this post. 💔

you can donate here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/swifties-for-southport