so you were never a saint

[proteinscollide]

I know Taylor Swift is quite polarising, but over the last couple of months I've been percolating a whole bunch of inchoate thoughts about her, and her public image, and the part the media has played in perpetuating then tearing it down, and I thought I'd finally put some of it down to see what others think

Comments

[littlerhymes]

Yeah, the laziness of the Daily Life article really irritates me. (Pretty typical, though, of the subset of DL articles which simply riff on or summarise features in other, better publications.)

I know tumblr is just a small, little place, and views of individuals are not representative of the whole, etc... but it kind of takes my breath away when people will reblog things about feminism and intersectionality, and then turn around and reblog some casual TSwift haterism. She shouldn't be immune from criticism, of course, but she's being held to such a different standard, argh!

Why are we constantly holding up Taylor Swift to say it's not okay for women to share those emotions somehow through something as simple as a catchy 5 minute pop song, when it's okay for men to talk shit about their ex-girlfriends through generations of music?

Yeah, this.

[proteinscollide]

Thanks for listening to me! :) And lol, I ended up ranting about it person to you anyway.

ps now post your Garbage/Shirley Manson thoughts, pleeeeeeease?

[babygotbass]

I am not a Taylor fan, but I am pretty careful not to judge her for being a girl. She can date who she wants! She can write songs about them! I just find her generally boring, am unimpressed with her voice, and think her dating patterns overlap to much with publicity opportunities. And since I am not a fan, I have don't know enough about her outside of her music, so I can't judge her as a *person*

Anyways. Being a popstar has its perks. But, being a young female popstar amplifies some of the problems the rest of us girls face.

[proteinscollide]

Yeah, I think being in pop fandom for so long makes this even more troubling - we went through this with Britney and Christina and the like, and nothing's changed - how the world views young women and what they're allowed to do and allowed to be is still so limited, so restricted. :(((((

(I didn't start out a Taylor Swift fan, but I can't stop listening to the latest album...)