The Sanctification of Taylor Swift
Ever since her album1989 came out, people have been treating her like such a saint. She seems to have perfect skin, perfect body, perfect voice, perfect mind and perfect personality. I think it helps that she sort of swore off boys there for a while, making her an incredibly independent woman and, therefore, the perfect role model. With the release of her latest album, it just seems as if her previous sins were quickly forgiven (and forgotten). Everyone was talking about her calling out sexist comments about her writing songs about her past lovers. People got behind that quickly, completely disregarding that her previous songs were slutshaming and unfeminist themselves. She talked about how Ed Sheeran writes songs about his past lovers and got no judgment for it-therefore making the whole ruckus a sexist act. Okay, let's talk about Adele then, who also writes songs about her love life and got no prodding of her personal life nor judgment about her men. She's also won tons of grammys, in her mid 20s and writes deeply emotional songs. But no one's said anything about her love life-at the very least not with the same intensity as Swift's.
Okay, so she may be a kind-hearted, generous person who truly cares for her fans and warms up to people easily. I'm not saying she's the devil. I'm actually a fan of her songs for a long time. But let's not exaggerate who she is. She's a mere human being, who makes mistakes and knows about the world just as much as the next guy. So she's beautiful...NOW. I mean, come on, what she looks like now has gone through a lot of alteration from her natural look. She used to have extremely curly hair, terrible fashion sense and quite thick glasses. Now, when people think of gorgeous T.S., they picture a straight-haired girl with on-point makeup and immaculate outfits-who is not even her actual self at all!
So let's just realise that Taylor Swift is human too. She doesn't have to choose between an angel and the devil, because she's neither.
Okay, so she may be a kind-hearted, generous person who truly cares for her fans and warms up to people easily. I'm not saying she's the devil. I'm actually a fan of her songs for a long time. But let's not exaggerate who she is. She's a mere human being, who makes mistakes and knows about the world just as much as the next guy. So she's beautiful...NOW. I mean, come on, what she looks like now has gone through a lot of alteration from her natural look. She used to have extremely curly hair, terrible fashion sense and quite thick glasses. Now, when people think of gorgeous T.S., they picture a straight-haired girl with on-point makeup and immaculate outfits-who is not even her actual self at all!
So let's just realise that Taylor Swift is human too. She doesn't have to choose between an angel and the devil, because she's neither.