Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog! I hope your week has been going well. Today’s topic has been one that’s been on my mind for a while, but I haven’t posted about it because I didn’t want to offend anyone, even though I don’t care if someone gets offended. I just don’t want to deal with that person being offended. Make sense? So, Disclaimer: this is just my opinion; you are free to agree or disagree. Either way, I couldn’t care less.
Taylor Swift. It feels like a name you shouldn’t say unless you want a horde of middle school to thirty-year-old women, you can guess what they look like, coming at you. I was a fan of Taylor Swift from middle school until my sophomore year of high school, so until quite recently, I would stream her songs and perform her concerts for my friends. Even to this day, I think some of her songs are good, and I won’t lie and say she doesn’t have a couple of decent albums, but in my opinion, I don’t think she’s as good as people make her out to be in any way, shape, or form. I say this because she began her career as a mediocre performer, most artists do, but it doesn’t feel like she’s grown all that much in the nineteen years she’s been in the industry. With all the money she has (because I won’t let anyone forget this woman is a billionaire and, despite how you feel, she is a part of the problem), she should be able to afford the best singing and dancing coaches the industry has to offer. I’m not saying that she hasn’t been working, but if she has…
It’s not only her performance skills that, in my opinion, are mediocre, but also her lyricism. I’m not denying that she is a gifted writer, but her writing doesn’t really go beyond half-baked metaphors and the use of big words to make herself seem smart. Now I am not the best writer in the world, and clearly neither is she, but if you’re going to claim yourself an English teacher and write songs about Shakespeare’s Ophelia, then at least get the story right. Ophelia’s problem was not that she didn’t have the right man; her problem was men, and I fear anyone with basic reading comprehension could come to this conclusion, but what do you expect from a male-centered woman?
And this is not to hate on anyone who enjoys Taylor Swift, you love your white feminist, (look up the definition before you get mad, and no, her support post of former Vice President Kamala Harris does not mean anything when it came too late and after she was basically forced into it by her democratic fans, and it certainly doesn’t mean anything after letting Donald Trump use her song and not saying anything about it, hanging out with MAGA men, etc.), high school loving even though she’s thirty something, personality based off the men she dates and the people she’s around, (she called herself a Mirrorball don’t even), billionaire popstar. And that is perfectly okay, my respect for her is just in the negative numbers.
I so agree with all of this. I need to hear your opinion on JoJo Siwa next! I love these type blogs from you.
OMG! I love how you can write and don’t care what people think. And I really don’t see what people see in ha. Her song ight but I don’t too much care for her. Girl I’m so happy you wrote this!
I don’t know much about Taylor swift I’m more of a r&b type of dude fr. Taylor swift is under my playlist for when I’m driving and start feeling like the Wayan brother in white chicks! I think her performance is more Americas got talent and not enough American idol.
I liked her music from back when she didnt listen to her fan-base like under mind control. Plus, every song nowadays is about getting with a boy she likes, how the relationship is going, heartbreak, then how she doesn’t need a man, back to sadness, then rinse and repeat…. I got sick of it tbh.
The old music was mid and the new album is YIKES. i’d rather listen to Katy Perry cuz she has ACTUAL bangers c:
I agree so much with you. I never really got into Taylor Swifts music but one or two songs I have heard are okay but the rest I don’t listen to. I think she isn’t the greatest person and her music also isn’t my style. I am definitely not a Taylor Swift fan if anything I’m anti- Taylor Swift lol. She also isn’t a good role model in any shape or form.