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"goth-punk" "female rage" "gaslit by an entire social structure" that entire quote is embarrassing asf

Oh no the goth police is here

Taylor Swift is the antithesis of punk.

“what’s happening with Taylor Swift is not organic” Why does he sound like an ATRLer?

I understand what she's saying but I've always objected to this notion that you can't properly emote on a song you didn't write. You might not have had exactly the same experience as the person writing it but it's possible to relate to lyrics in a song so you can sing them as if they have meaning to you too.

Last I checked, Taylor Swift doesn't platform Nazis. Nor does she allow them to monetize bigoted lies designed to get marginalized groups hurt/killed. He can choke.

I can't at her acting as if the Kimye situation was the end of the world or the beggining of the end of her career It was obviously shitty and the backlash was all over the place but honestly it was just a hate train that every popstar goes through these days... and unlike most girls her career wasn't affected. Reputation still debuted with 1m+, she was able to go on a stadium tour, and so on. Imagine if she actually faced what Britney had to deal with in 2007? Or when Madonna was basically the most hated person in the world during the 90s? And their careers were actually affected as Britney was put under a conservatorship and Madonna was banned from music channels, radio, started to struggle in the US etc. She should just move on from this bs, this narrative is tired at this point. She's literally at the top of the world rn, no one cares about that situation anymore

So she’s saying that no one can properly emote a song if they didn’t write the lyrics and she’s a Beyoncé stan

the masculine need to insert yourself when nobody rang your buzzer

this one was my fave

are people really thinking she meant the album is sonically goth-punk when she said that? are y'all intentionally obtuse

Would a person born in 1994 lie?

Women supporting women Misogynistic gays take another L

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Imagine choosing to still cry about getting snake emojis years later and making it sound like it was an evil conspiracy to cancel you. Taylor Swift, the white billionare who was raised in a life of privilege, is really desperate to play the victim and still seems bitter about the one time she lost control of the narrative. Also, she is deliberately rewritting the timeline of her relationship with Travis Kelce to ensure that everyone forgets about her fling with Matty Healy.

Like her or not, making a manipulated phone call public was an infamous low blow.

The Avril Lavigne drag

She’ll be devastated at this news.

Nothing about Reputa is goth or punk lol.

This is honestly one of the more ingenious marketing campaigns for an album rollout. I really hope it translates into sales and streams cause this has been so much fun to watch.

Our Mimi is a class act!

One of her most famous song is a cover

Did you even watch the video? Let's do better!

Some of these are truly unhinged

She's so real. I mean, I would **** myself too if I spotted LeGend seated in the audience giving me that stare.

OTHs being right wing nut jobs seems accurate.

"B-B-BUT THE DIGITAL..!!" i'm sorry but selling a completely different and unfinished album in physical (with a thousand variants btw) has a name: scam

Everybody at Gag city except the husband

people eating the OPs up in the replies lmao. its almost 2024 and people are still idiots. gta 5 had a black main character. san andreas had a black main character with a story revolving around the hood. these losers need to grow the **** up and shut up

Taylor thinks she is moving too fast per Daily Mail.

Let's see.... Dumb. Stupid. Useless. Ugly. Fat. Unemployed. Miserable. Moronic. Uneducated. Idiotic. Did I already say useless? Worthless. Need I go on? Pick one.

Can someone post the entire interview? Because with these little excerpts, it seems like at her crowning moment, she's still whining about being a victim and how difficult it is being a privileged, rich, famous entertainer. Like does she have a persecution complex or is it a tactic to position herself as an underdog even as a capitalist billionaire?

Still not a top group according to y'all...

well actually there's CD factories in Germany that have been making fake albums and shipping them to people over the world in an attempt to destroy her flawless album rollout- the opps are getting more creative day by day chi 😫 REAL TRACKLIST TOMORROW AND IT WILL BREAK THE INTERNET!

So I assume this person lived through Beatlemania and Thriller to make such a judgement? Or is she just another member of her "squad" trying to suck up by diminishing the work of an actual trailblazer, the first black entertainer to be played by MTV?

this is exactly the type of mess I wanted from this release feels like old ATRL again very ANTI diaries vibes

...Grateful that people recognize and appreciate my work?

This is so funny to me considering she makes music for Talent shows contestants

The pretentiousness

Wait till he finds out about the Willow remixes and discounts

Gag City will be up in flames if the digital version is the same.

Popping in to say the Barbz generating corporations in gag city FORCING the brands to do free promo for Nicki is one of the most iconic stan movements I’ve ever seen Congrats on the upcoming release, I WILL be listening. I need the emotional moments of Pinkprint, the assertive domination of Queen, and the lyrical and melodic excellence of Pink Friday. I know the Queen of Rap won’t disappoint

You’re right POTY isn’t about escaping reality, all I said was that -entertainers- help us escape reality. POTY embraces the reality that some figures are global icons each year in a way that transcends everything else, and to act as if Taylor didn’t transcend every other conversation this year (up until Israel-Palestine’s recent conflict which exploded after Taylor had already been chosen + shot her cover if my understanding is correct) is ludicrous. Let’s call a spade a spade: you don’t like Taylor Swift so you don’t want her to have this title. Sam is still being honored as the CEO of the year in this issue, and while I genuinely thought he was going to get the honor, it’s completely understandable that he didn’t: AI still has so much more room to grow. For all we know he could get it next year. Taylor has reached a pinnacle no other artist in history has reached (a billion dollar tour will probably never happen again, at least not for generations to come) and she probably won’t have a year this big again so who the hell cares if she gets this title at the apex of her very impressive career. The impact she’s having IS real, you just don’t like it A rising tide lifts all ships.

You talking about white privilege while proclaiming Morgan Wallen to be the hottest male popster is insane

White women say some stupid **** huh

You writing this as if a) Taylor will see this, and b) as if she was being serious It’s starting to look like OTHs are the ones with the parasocial relationship to Taylor

That one Xtina fan being deranged by the fact that Beyonce created a special experience for her fans thank you Beyonce! Loved seeing it the first time and I’m going again with my sister back in Romania on the 20th! Renaissance has been the best music experience of my life as of yet. From the album to the concert and outfits to now the film! What a ride this has been!

She’s Disney. Aside from the multi-generational audience and four-quadrant appeal, she also utilizes business practices perfected by the House of Mouse. Her rerecordings are conceptually similar to Disney’s live action remakes in that both reinvigorate interest in the title, allow new merchandizing opportunities, and further cement the legacy of the original material. The rerecordings also benefit from an empowering narrative of artistic reclamation, whereas Disney’s live films are generally written off as mere cash grabs. Disney also has a history with a “vault.” For most of their history, the company “vaulted” films in order to create scarcity in the market. Then they would take films out of the vault for limited periods, generally to adapt to new mediums (VHS to DVD to Bluray) or celebrate anniversary editions—often with “never before seen” bonus content “from the vault.” Conveniently, these limited releases would occur just often enough for the material to be marketed again to a whole new generation of youngsters. I think Taylor similarly manipulates the availability of her physical releases (particularly notable with vinyl) to create false scarcity and drive up sales when there is a new batch released. Don’t get me started on the self-mythologizing. The way that Taylor retains the support of fans as they grow up whilst simultaneously drawing in new generations is straight out of Disney’s playbook. Not just them. Barbie, Lego, Pokemon, Star Wars, Mario, Lord of the Rings, James Bond, Marvel and DC, and so forth. Brands do this, but nobody does it better than Disney. And until Taylor, I’m not sure that any singular living individual really did it on quite this scale, either. Aside from taking notes from Disney’s business habits, she’s also got: the combination of critical acclaim and commercial success typical of their classic films; the “safe” image highlighted by lightly “progressive” posturing (and accompanying ridiculous, overblown conservative backlash); the easter eggs and self-referencing across her work; the fans who rabidly collect and create themed merch, and who dress up as their favorite character / version of Taylor.