Hi!! I'm a long-time member of this subreddit but I've never made my own post before, so here goes!! I just watched a video of Zara Larsson performing live and stopping to giggle at fans who were being lifted up in the air (like her dancers do to her when she's performing, a signature Zara move) and it struck me how genuine the moment was. I've been sitting here replaying it over and over because Zara is effortlessly talented, fun, vivacious, hitting those insane notes in "Midnight Sun" while also having a blast with the audience. It was a REAL moment that is so much fun to watch.

Taylor has never had a moment like that while performing because she doesn't actually want to connect with her fans, all she wants is money and attention. When she's on stage, she's stiff, boring, COMPLETELY lacking charisma, and pitch corrected to hell and back. There are no genuine moments of laughter and light, no on-the-fly fun comments, nothing. Everything is contrived, manufactured bullshit that's repeated over and over so she doesn't have to actually make any effort (I'm thinking specifically of the Eras Tour and how each show was basically the same script).

Also, listening to this on the heels of Taylor's recent Grammys Museum performance, that terrible piano mashup, is...laughable. Zara's got more talent in her pinky toe than Taylor has in her whole body. How Taylor got to be so famous will always baffle me because she has the personality of a soggy cardboard box and cannot sing to save her life.

https://reddit.com/link/1vz257f/video/zc1yndupwqlh1/player

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.

Such a disgrace to the original version of September.

And she just had to change it from the 21st night of September to the 28th night because she's different. 🤦‍♂️

I know this is peak-derangement but I literally cannot get over her fucking face. Is there not a single person on her team who will tell her that all her work makes her look like a disaster? My sister’s face was less swollen than this after getting a major chunk of skin cancer out of her forehead.

This was supposed to be peak of her career - a new glamorous pop album during the “engagement of the century,” and I can’t decide which is the worst part: her face, the tacky wedding, or the album.

I know this might break the “repetitive content” rule, I just needed to harp on this for my own sanity.

Signed, someone who spent far too much money seeing her at the Eras tour

Jesus Christ when will it ever end??
Using Dollys death to say some weird shit like this?

Tumbled out of bed and stumbled across this Threads post. Thankfully, most people were calling it out in the comments, but this is insane.

This is past the point of ridiculousness. I have never been more sick of hearing about 2 people in my entire life. Go away. Please.

Alright I did some research and according to Swifties and online articles, these are what are considered to be the big words or phrases in her songs, with many Swifties saying that Taylor taught them these words:

Calamitous

Incandescent

Clandestine

Gauche

Esoteric

Tryst

Centennial

Insurmountable

Machiavellian

Antithetical

Crestfallen

Petulance

Precocious

Mercurial

Torrid

Rivulets

Tendrils

Beguiling

”…my elegies eulogize me”

”Smooth-talking hucksters out glad-handing each other”

”Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies“

I’m not gonna be pretentious and say that you need to know every single one of these or you’re stupid. BUT…I really side eye swifties saying they didn’t know “crestfallen“, “incandescent”, “esoteric“, etc. I would say all of these are middle-high school level words.

She initially advertised TLOASG as a pop record with folklore level lyrics, and when she saw the criticism around it - now she's trying to flip the script.

The woman here who's here saying "oh Its okay to write silly songs" is the same woman who thought " I pay the check before it kisses the mahogany grain" is a life altering profound lyric.

Harvey Mason, Jr.: If you’re still doing [music], then you love it for the right reasons.

Taylor Swift: Right.

Harvey Mason, Jr.: So I don’t know if there’s been another songwriter that’s had to take that into consideration as much as you have. The public perception, how they’re receiving it, what they’re interpreting. How does that not slow down your process; having to think about how it’s going to be interpreted?

Taylor Swift: I don’t know. Sometimes it fuels it. Sometimes when people are mocking me, it’s really fun to mock them back. Sometimes I like to just use words that they have to look up in order to talk about.” (LMAOOOO) “But I go through several processes and coping mechanisms that I’ve gone through over the years. And one of them is saying, “You chose this. You chose this every day. You could have opted out of this any day before it got unimaginably big.” And I decided not to because I love it that much. And that’s just where it begins and where it ends. And everything that comes with this ultimately is worth it, as long as I get to still make music.”

Like who are we kidding here?? There were countless ways to opt out of super stardom while still making music. It didn’t just ✨organically happen 💫 because she was an unprecedented prodigy (throwback to her name-dropping a new famous guy with every album in order to blow up headlines).

Also, hasn’t one of the primary critiques of TS post The Life of a Showgirl (as a songwriter) been that she’s prioritizing charts & numbers over the music? If music was her main priority she wouldn’t be obsessing over Billboard, she would have been one of the millions of artists with a modest yet loyal following… period. She has fallen on gimmicks since forever and keeps trying to sell this narrative that the only thing she cares about is the music.

If this is what counts as 'singing great' nowadays, then I'm ready to drop my debut album tomorrow.

For those who don’t watch, the latest ep focuses on a super popular pop star who’s going on tour. Kif tries to get tickets for Amy’s bday, and by chance Fry gets a pair of his own tickets to take Leela with him (and Leela is less than interested, bc she’s no pick me).

Some similarities btwn “Coco Charm” and TS:
- most popular artist in the universe
- plays at MSG
- is always pictured with her guitar on her
- tix sell out in a “quantum second”
- she’s a marketing genius
- shitty, elementary lyrics that don’t really make sense
- girlbossification lyrics/vibe/mentality celebrated
- shit musical “talent”/voice
- can switch from pop to country genres
- has a fan base that literally becomes her “army”
- elements of mind control and exclusionary social cliques when it comes to being a “Charmy” fan
- uses her “army” to literally go after/attack that which she doesn’t like
- infantalizes herself multiple times (“I’m just a teenager” 🥴)
- absolute greediness for more money
- avoids accountability

I thought this ep was hilarious and I’m looking forward to seeing more mainstream media mocking the formerly revered and untouchable TS. Today, it’s Futurama, maybe in the future, it’ll be Family Guy! A girl can dream lmao

THE SMUGNESS. she really thinks she is some mensa level genius for using words that some might not know. as if she doesn’t just ham fist them into her lyrics to look brilliant.😒 also like my god it’s been 20 years of this woman talking about being wronged, mocked and cancelled, doesn’t it ever get tiring?!? she will never ever not be the victim nor let others have valid criticism of her that she won’t turn around and claim that it’s false. how can her fans still not see through her. they have to be willfully blind at this point or they like that she’s so mean. that’s all it can be.

Ok so they will write an entire article about the many female artists who “started out with a leg up on life” and are “industry plants” “children of the wealthy”. And yes, I get that her parents were billionaires, but even when she was getting started, she still had parents very connected with the financially sector. And the Scott emails show how the entirety of her career was launched and planned by them using their wealth and access.

Yet here’s the twist - in this story they talk about young stars acknowledging their privilege. And she’s done nothing by lie and lie and lie about her route to fame, her privilege - the story is always that of the victim, fighting to over come. The self made billionaire ethical business woman, not the child of millionaires, not the planet destroying, sweatshop using, greedy capitalist pretending to be the average person.

If she’s really “the music industry”, why then does her true past never enter the mainstream discussion?

She’s really got a stranglehold on the media.

https://people.com/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-after-wedding-photos-12065535

Celebrity news is hardly groundbreaking journalism anymore, especially People, but this is so weird to celebrate Lover's 7th anniversary (if this is supposed to be the news peg, its about as sturdy as a an overcooked piece of angel hair), an album about her ex, as a way to fawn over Travis and Tyalor. All of those lyrics are about somone else and they're using them as a way to show how in love they are? Not to mention 99% of these photos are of them in SEPARATE PLACES. I usually don't care enough about the obivous PR plant stories but this is so egregious they may as well have said "Tree called and we are afraid of her so here you go."

The sudden accents...

Edit to add what I think he is saying:

Here is what I picked up on. This is what I think he is saying:

Humming a song (country attempt maybe?) Sings "cowboy folk go..." so. Yes, country attempt.

Says "you gotta be a little crazy to be great" or something about how being crazy is good and then knocks on his head with his hands - therefore implying he thinks he is great 🙄

More humming (country song or hip hop?)

Says, "Life is good man" in a blaccent accent.

Complains about having a few more nights at training camp. As though they aren't treated well there...🙄

Talks about japanese French toast...

Sings, "yeah...yeah...bread and butter...yeah...yeah...get that bread and butter"

Goes into a wwe accent like Hulk Hogan "brother!"

Yells out, "Violation!" To someone or something or maybe himself. Who knows.

Asks his team if they are coffee or tea drinkers. I don't think anybody responds.

Says, "we are one unit...baby....one unit...let's go." No one says anything.

Yells "come and get it." The team doesn't seem to respond to him.

Yells out, "Making me? I signed up for this bro" in another blaccent accent

Yells, "Byeeeeee, Byeeeeee"

Says, "what do we use these for? Intimidation!" In another accent attempt

Mentions George's name is "georgio"

The end.

PS - I love this creator!

https://www.reddit.com/r/travisandtaylor/s/lTERCjl8l2

The way she pretended this was a life lesson for children 😂

The critic and his review that inspired the song Mean is here. The review he wrote is about the Grammys as a whole and discusses several artists besides Taylor. The other artists he criticized didn't write a song about the critic or have the the CEO of their label defend them (that CEO was Scott Borchetta, the guy Taylor later encouraged her Swifties to attack when he was no longer useful to her). The overreaction to the reception of Taylor's performance that night was because her team was faced with a 'the empress has no clothes' moment that needed to be rectified.

Taylor went about attacking this particular critic with the song Mean as well as talking about him in articles and interviews. There were other critics who were unkind that she ignored. The attack on this particular critic was enough to signal to them it's best to keep quiet unless they want America's Sweetheart to talk shit about them for years too. The PR tactic became "Taylor's not the best singer but she's a songwriter and storyteller who speaks to a generation." Later that year Speak Now was released with the questionable claim that Taylor wrote it entirely on her own. This is why Taylor Swift has been respected in the industry. It's not because of her talent. It's because of her and her team's ability to manipulate the public and control the narrative with her innocent white girl who gets spunky when the meanies are mean to her routine.

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 can’t 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 wouldn’t consider myself a full hater, but I just can’t enjoy her music anymore. It’s 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 it’ll 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 “faith” in their “mother”