(This is gonna be just a pure rant, but I need to talk about it somewhere.)
Since Taylor Swift recently had concerts for 3 days in a row in Warsaw, Poland (aka the capital city of my country).
And honestly, I have not thought about it before, but now I would like to say one thing:
I don’t get the phenomenon of Taylor Swift.
And I have some reasons for it.
1) Taylor is a multimillionaire and an extreme polluter of the natural environment. If you don’t get what I’m talking about, just google how often she flies with her jet to her boyfriend’s football matches or into any other events that totally don’t require flying with a goddamn plane to.
2) I would probably even get the hype if she was an extremely talented and original artist. That would not be an excuse to ignore her environmental issues, but yeah.
Meanwhile, she is the most average pop artist I’ve ever listened to. Nothing about her work or persona is special, her lyrics are obvious and bland, and her voice is just flat.
I don’t have anything against average people doing art, you can do whatever makes you happy even if you are not the next Celine Dion or Tina Turner, but - we have to remember that Swift is a multimillionaire who already started her music career as a nepo baby. She has had and still has all the resources to promote herself and her very average art, a chance that many people more talented than her don’t have.
3) she is extremely entitled and totally out of touch with reality (like most of the ultra rich). And I’m not even talking about that cringe moment when she called her music “punk”.
Do you know what accommodation did she require upon her arrival in Warsaw? The goddamn presidential apartment in the Marriott Hotel. The same presidential apartment in which American presidents stay during official state visits in Poland 🤡
So, to summarize, in my opinion Taylor Swift is not only the peak of white, liberal feminism, but a perfect sign of the late capitalism - in which good marketing is enough to promote people and things which are completely undeserving of all this fame. Like, c’mon people, out of all the great female pop artists of our generation, why… her?
I know that Swifties are probably gonna eat me but I needed to write about this somewhere 😭
god, please tell me a lestappen girlie was in the front row at the eras tour in milan and put that one lestappen edit during midnight rain and charles saw it.