midnightdawn Posted January 2 Posted January 2 (edited) Quote It may come as a surprise that it wasn’t Taylor Swift referring to re-recording her hit albums as “collecting horcruxes and infinity stones” in her recent Time magazine Person of the Year profile that put me over the edge. (Although that kind of millennial speak also brings a twitch to my eye, even if it perfectly aligns with the perma-Tumblr brand that Swift has crafted for herself.) Rather, it was a quote from the article’s scribe, Time’s West Coast editor Sam Lansky, that enraged me. Lansky’s profile is a detailed and knowledgeable pop culture chronicle, but it takes little more than a single quote to reveal that the article is a Swift-approved puff piece. Quote Reading that should be all that anyone needs to know about the careful control that Swift has over her career and image, and the kinds of people that she not only surrounds herself with but also allows to peer into her life. She wants nothing more than to keep the narrative she has so meticulously crafted intact. This is her picture-perfect image of herself: a pop star who clawed her way back from the dregs of cultural cancelation to revive a career that, in actuality, never came close to dying. Swift seemingly let Lansky in because she could regulate the circumstances so precisely that even the most discerning part of his profile would end in the relinquished bow of a head. While I don’t think Swift should have to be defending her life every second that she’s talking to a reporter, it’s frightening how her cultural ubiquity has been able to entrance the world into a near-universal state of permanent praise. As someone who was a Swiftie for an entire decade of my life—now in recovery—I never thought that a person whose art I once admired so much could become insufferable. But Swift’s record-breaking 2023 proved me wrong over and over again. Quote By the time the Eras Tour’s American leg came to a close in August, Swift was practically Princess Diana levels of beloved. A new relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce was merely the next step toward achieving unimpeachable power. Kelce is the perfect combination of Swift’s best boyfriends; he’s got the squeaky-clean lovability of her former fiancé Joe Alwyn and the casanova qualities of Harry Styles. Naturally, Swifties love their relationship. Unnaturally, people are obsessed with them in ways that I could have never predicted. Do people still care about who celebrities are sucking face with? The last time I was concerned with who Taylor Swift was dating was during her 2012 relationship with Styles. Back then, it was still fun to watch someone cling to the fading twee aesthetic of the late 2010s, an iron grip clutching her fox sweaters and plaid skirts. I don’t find any of that same novelty in watching a 34-year-old woman run around like a lovesick high schooler wearing her boyfriend’s football jersey every day of the week. I’m not particularly charmed by Kelce’s doting promo tour, either. Quote Great art, and great artists, must be able to withstand scrutiny. Only then will an artist have something interesting to say. Until then, I am not convinced that Taylor Swift has any intentions other than commodifying the idea of herself just enough to connect with young people who have yet to realize that Swift is now only a part-time musician, and full-time spin doctor. https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/2023-was-the-year-taylor-swift-became-insufferable?ref=home Edited January 2 by midnightdawn 34 2 1 28
Saintlor Posted January 2 Posted January 2 (edited) I don't get this. In this day, if you don't like somebody famous, its easy to avoid them no matter how famous they are Edited January 2 by Saintlor 12 1 2
Peak Now Posted January 2 Posted January 2 (edited) None of yall lived through 2014/15 I see Edited January 2 by AndThenTheCocaine 1 5
mael Posted January 2 Posted January 2 (edited) What are we suppose to do with this information? Edited January 2 by mael 4 2
Popular Post Maroonx Posted January 2 Popular Post Posted January 2 Which ATRL member wrote that article? 31
slw84 Posted January 2 Posted January 2 Wouldn't let a day in 2024 go by without starting the backlash from overexposure narrative.
Popular Post GentleDance Posted January 2 Popular Post Posted January 2 (edited) Someone please point me to similar articles written about male celebrities Edited January 2 by GentleDance 24
Strawberry Bubble Posted January 2 Posted January 2 (edited) So now she is annoying because she knows how to control the narrative? It just shows how smart she is, literally almost any big artist has collapsed through very controversial statements from time to time. Nevertheless, this article may describe her situation in America, but she has a lot of haters outside that country. She maybe is as big as Lady Di in the US, but that's it. Her haters are everywhere, too. It is not true that she is surrounded by praise, at all. Edited January 2 by Sebastián Muñoz 1 1
Popular Post Jewel Posted January 2 Popular Post Posted January 2 She's been that for a while because her brand of pop is very YOUNG - meanwhile she's in her 30s. It's very middle school bf drama and music. Basic. The great popstars always made pop music feel adult. 26
Popular Post Psyduck Posted January 2 Popular Post Posted January 2 Yeah no tea no shade the Time puff piece was embarrassing. It reeked of micromanaging PR control and paranoia. Like not even MJ was refusing to let journalists interview him unless they kissed his ass. Would Taylor ever do a live Diane Sawyer interview like he did in 1995 where she was dragging him to his face? I think it's because the boomers who own all these legacy media outlets are terrified of becoming irrelevant due to TikTok and such and so Taylor is the one remaining monoculture thing so they HAVE to have her at all costs, even if they have to play along with her PR narrative. Because in reality she is the biggest music superstar ever in America, and yet her music is painfully predictable and safe and I really think that this hyper control of the media she is doing is partly responsible for that. She needs an actual dragging. Someone needs to tell her she can do much better than MIDnights. Because she can. But if she continues to be in a yes-men bubble and force the media to be her yes-men as well or rescind access (allegedly), then her music is never going to reach its full potential. Folklore was the one time she tried something new and then she ran back to making safe music with AntoNOff. Give us a full album of Cleans, Bigger Than the Whole Skys, Peaces, etc. **** some **** up sis. Because it's not ok that the biggest music star in the world is giving such vanilla music. 23 10 1 13
Popular Post enchanted0 Posted January 2 Popular Post Posted January 2 (edited) Nah The reason that Taylor and her fandom are so powerful is that they came to realize this media scrutiny thing is such a BS. Attacking and gaslighting female popstars and their fandom worked in the past but it’s not 00s anymore. The fans will continue make these cute tiktoks and do their own thing and Taylor will remain powerful and “insufferable”. Edited January 2 by enchanted0 14 6
Popular Post Taylena Posted January 2 Popular Post Posted January 2 The media just can't deal with the fact they can't cancel her and call her Nazi again (like they often used to) without major backlash from her fanbase and the public that now loves her. 16 1 1
Strawberry Bubble Posted January 2 Posted January 2 3 minutes ago, Psyduck said: Yeah no tea no shade the Time puff piece was embarrassing. It reeked of micromanaging PR control and paranoia. Like not even MJ was refusing to let journalists interview him unless they kissed his ass. Would Taylor ever do a live Diane Sawyer interview like he did in 1995 where she was dragging him to his face? I think it's because the boomers who own all these legacy media outlets are terrified of becoming irrelevant due to TikTok and such and so Taylor is the one remaining monoculture thing so they HAVE to have her at all costs, even if they have to play along with her PR narrative. Because in reality she is the biggest music superstar ever in America, and yet her music is painfully predictable and safe and I really think that this hyper control of the media she is doing is partly responsible for that. She needs an actual dragging. Someone needs to tell her she can do much better than MIDnights. Because she can. But if she continues to be in a yes-men bubble and force the media to be her yes-men as well or rescind access (allegedly), then her music is never going to reach its full potential. Folklore was the one time she tried something new and then she ran back to making safe music with AntoNOff. Give us a full album of Cleans, Bigger Than the Whole Skys, Peaces, etc. **** some **** up sis. Because it's not ok that the biggest music star in the world is giving such vanilla music. The media has become actually very irrelevant, so I think it's true what you are saying about the media outlets. They don't have the power they once had in the past.
ATRL Moderator Popular Post feelslikeadream Posted January 2 ATRL Moderator Popular Post Posted January 2 Glad we finally reached the point where needless hate articles like this are considered tacky, irrelevant, and boring. 14 1
Psyduck Posted January 2 Posted January 2 4 minutes ago, Taylena said: The media just can't deal with the fact they can't cancel her and call her Nazi again (like they often used to) without major backlash from her fanbase and the public that now loves her. She will 100% have another backlash era. Guaranteed. In fact if we follow the Madonna trajectory (Taylor is currently in her Music/GHV2 victory lap era) the next album should be another dragging session.
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