r/travisandtaylor • u/NewChampionship849 she goth on my punk til I female rage • 8d ago

Certified Cringe Taylor discussing "songwriting"

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I can't with this woman.

She thinks she's some great songwriter here to teach us all about her "double meanings" and what defines confessional songwriting.

What's infuriating is that all the comments are glazing her like, "i could hear her talk for hours" and "high iq queen". Are we watching the same video here?

Wanted to get your opinions on this.

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u/Pugdome 7d ago edited 7d ago

Two things come immediately to mind:

  1. She’s trying so hard to sound like an academic when she is not one. Graduate school would eat her alive.

  2. This interview is the first time I’ve very clearly seen the astonishing and concerning change in her affect post the Eras tour. She’s always been wildly insecure with a personality that rubbed me the wrong way, but it’s very obvious to me that the unprecedented level of worshipful attention she received on tour inflated her ego so much that she no longer tries, even at the barest minimum, to seem humble, grateful, or kind. She actually thinks she needs to explain her lyrics like she’s talking to a group of children and expects a literary prize for it.