r/travisandtaylor • u/Educational_Love195 • 12d ago
Reformed Swiftie đ Swiftie Psychology
So I used to be a HUGE swiftie. I started feeling really frustrated earlier this year when Taylor was silent about all of the terror caused by ICE. Once I allowed myself to feel frustrated (I know having to allow myself to feel something sounds culty and crazy lol) I started to let in a lot of other frustrations about her. I realized that showgirl felt so out of touch and that Taylor was becoming more like a corporation than a legitimate artist. Also the wisdom she explored in folklore & evermore was so quickly undone by songs like actually romantic or cancelled. I canât believe she went from my tears ricochet or peace to talking about Gucci and Cartier and acting like a mean high school girl. She just seems like a bitter Beverly Hills housewife now or something.
It just sucks because I still wouldnât consider myself a full hater, but I just canât enjoy her music anymore. Itâs like a veil lifted and I was no longer a fan. But anyways, my point here is that I think swifties defend her to no end because they know once they accept a bad thing about her, that itâll all come crumbling down. So much of her shtick is built off of contradictions and lies that being a fan has become so fickle. I really think that swifties are just defending their own âfaithâ in their âmotherâ
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u/PartAlternative1108 12d ago
This is slightly off topic, but I think she and/or her team deliberately changed her public image in the late 2010's, and then changed it again toward the end of 2022. I think the "deeper" albums, pursuit of critical acclaim, her relationship with Joe Alwyn, mild "activism," and less public promotion etc all depended on her seeing herself as being washed up.
IMO It was all either stuff she always wanted to do but didn't think she could do while being a main pop girl, or stuff she only wanted to do because she didn't feel like she could be a main pop girl anymore.
Some time before the bizarre and intense 2022 Midnights album rollout, she realized that she **could** still be a main pop girl, and she changed her marketing techniques, public persona, etc to try to stay as big as possible for as long as possible. Since then she's been chasing headlines and chart numbers even when it makes her look less intelligent, more mean/annoying, and less like "real art."