Heyromeoready2go

I actually find her music and persona pretty liberating. At face value, I see how people view her as vanilla, upholding heteronormativity, and generally a little too picture perfect of an image of the "American Dream" that Millennials have been sold from the womb. But here's the thing, she follows all the rules and checks all the boxes of American capitalism, and yet quite a few people still hate her, and passionately so at that. As a gay man, I think about the middle school version of me who thought if I could just do everything the "right," culturally acceptable way, people would like me, but Taylor's role in the zeitgeist shows that that's total bullshit and no matter how many boxes you check, some people will still hate you. So why not just be whoever the **** you wanna be? Damned if you, damned if you don't, might as well be genuine. That and her music just satisfies a particular lane of my musical tastes. For me, it's nostalgic, escapist, emotional, and fun. With that said, I'm able to enjoy her music because I don't expect it to be ~everything~ I need out of music. I have Beyonce, Rihanna, Charli, Caroline Polachek, Lana, Ariana, Gaga, FKA (the list goes on and on) for all other sorts of moods and needs from music.

Still one more digital cover than I'll ever have so props to her but the thread title is misleading. She's not "covering" vogue, she's featured on their website and gets to place their logo over some photos.

While you are correct that it is on the consumer to decide how they spend their own money and no one is entitled to attend every show they want to, the issue is that the monopolistic nature of Ticketmaster is what leads to insanely high "demand-driven" ticket prices. Because Ticketmaster has exclusive contracts with the VAST majority of major venues in the United States, big artists have no choice but to use their system if they want to do an arena or stadium tour. Meaning there's zero competition in the market and the artist and Ticketmaster can set the price at whatever they want in order to maximize profits. Prices are artificially inflated and it's not truly based on a supply/demand market as you postulate. If there were a few ticket suppliers for a single show, each one would have to compete with each other for buyers in order to maximize their market share, increasing the likelihood that prices decrease instead of getting stuck in a dynamic pricing loop. These massive corporations exist solely to milk every single cent they possible can out of the American consumer. We do not truly have the "free markets" that we've been brainwashed to believe actually exist. The entire system is intentionally designed this way. This is capitalism. Corporations and a government owned by lobbyists are absolutely to blame for this exploitation.

I think demonstrating boundaries and enforcing them is GREAT. Honestly the most exciting development I've seen in the pop world in awhile. If we, as a culture, ever move past parasocial relationships with musicians, it will be because of stars like Chappell. Anyone talking **** about this is simply mirroring their own parasocial obsessions with people who will never know their names.

lol at everyone criticizing her… when was the last time you had a hit song? A hit tweet, even? Extreme loser behavior. She's could drop off the face of the planet today, never work another day in her life, and still have had more success than every single person in this thread.