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Is Taylor Swift's New Album Bad Enough To Trigger Class Consciousness? (www.huffpost.com)

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 121 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

It's crazy it took this long for people to get tired of a 40 year old billionaire singing teen love songs...

Every "good" album was after she broke up with a bf, because that the only relatable experience she has to her fans. Lots of people called that getting engaged/married would be the end of her career.

She simply has nothing in common with her fans anymore. But she's been a horrible person for decades, especially towards female singers who are younger than her. And now their fans are starting to realize who the problem always was.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 81 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 72 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm convinced shit like paper straws is just to turn people against saving the planet.

The fucking straws aren't great, but the real problem has always been the oligarchs and corporations.

So they come up with stuff that won't help, but will get people pissed at climate activists.

Shit's so obvious but no one ever talks about it. It's the same principle as means testing, divide and conquer

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The straw is the last thing I tend to worry about getting the sorta carbonated water that doesn’t have enough syrup in it so you’re basically drinking carbonated municipal water supply with some chemical colorants.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe I'm spoiled, but the biggest city around here also has the best water

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 47 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I remember something where Tina Fey wrote a bit on SNL parodying swift and someone interviewed Taylor and she said something to the effect of “as Barbara Walters says there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women” about Fey in regards to a pretty gentle and innocuous comedy bit. Which was funny because Barbara Walters was a shitty person who broke down other women too. I honestly think Swift isn’t super different from Kanye. They’re both rich, self-obsessed assholes who have zero sense of humor about themselves and zero real-world awareness. A lot of people have known she was a piece of shit for a long time but if you ever said anything about it you were called a liar, sexist, jealous, or we’re just doxxed by swifties

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

At least Kanye West's lack of awareness stems from him refusing to take medication to stabilize himself (on top of being a petty bitch who'll die on any hill he's standing on, even if he found himself there unintentionally).

Taylor Swift is just milquetoast, "I don't understand why the poors are complaining" rich apparently.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

I see where Swift was coming from there, I always found the "roasting someone" phenomenon quite strange. Being horrible to one another isn't something worth celebrating, in my view.

[–] blave@lemmy.world 31 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m not a Taylor Swift fan, but I do have one thing in common with her: I wanna fuck her boyfriend. Maybe she should sing songs about that.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 32 points 4 weeks ago

Apparently she made an incredibly juvenile song about how big his dick is?

Like, not just a song about his dick and that is juvenile. But a song about him that sounds like a 7th grader wrote it.

A bad attempt at Sabrina Carpenter's whole deal.

So yeah, maybe you'll like at least one song on it...

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 31 points 4 weeks ago

Most of her hardcore fans are remarkably dumb. Even the ones who have finally seen the light, quoted in this article.

“I don’t expect celebrities to be political or foreign policy experts, but the past few months have felt like her only concern is selling us a plethora of vinyl variants.”

The past few months?!! She’s been hawking vinyl variants for years. The album before this one dominated the charts for months because they released so many variants.

“I’m a fan ― I even flew to Scotland for the Eras Tour ― but Taylor has felt out-of-touch lately.”

Oh yeah. Just lately. Keep using that brain of yours. You’ll get there.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 17 points 4 weeks ago

She also has a decent set of songs built around her coming to grips with that her unhappiness may be more due to herself than others.

She also seems like an aspirational version of a lot of women.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Holy fuck, yeah, she's near 40. I'm near 40.

This reframing has destabilised me.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 47 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I literally couldn’t read the article, as it kept reloading the page every few seconds, jumping out of reader view and to its fundraising banner. I’m guessing that’s some kind of copy protection against people not looking at ads or something. In any case, it worked.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this any better?

https://archive.is/N1hop

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks; that worked

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Awesome, now tell me what you think about tswift’s new album? I listened to 3 seconds of it and hated it!

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 4 points 4 weeks ago

while I didn't have that issue myself, I tested it and the site works well enough with JS disabled.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 37 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Man I sure hope so. Seems like every time she farts sideways it's front page news. Enough already.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait she farts sideways? Like it comes out of her hip? That is news!

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

As in, lifts a cheek to sneak one. 🤌🏼

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh! I never got that expression. But I'm a loud and proud type. With so much misery in the world it seems wrong not to revel in the joy of a good fart. Like throwing away dinner during a famine.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Ah, we call that "popping a sneaker" here

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

The remarkable amount of new holeage she'd have to get added to actually fart sideways would make that news, yes

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I remember when she made a whole big deal about realizing that she herself was a problem and her use of drama for attention whoring was making her less likable and that she might not ever be able to find love again.... And then that was the same album as "look what you made me do"

I liked her music but i have come to realize she's pretty awful and refuses to change unless its to protect her wealth and control her image to her sycophants.

And this businesswoman playing safe and out of touch with kids money is beyond disgusting to me now.

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[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

She's a billionaire that's engaged to someone that appears to be a Magat. How is anyone surprised?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 30 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

engaged to someone that appears to be a Magat

Where do you get this from? I'm not super caught-up with Taylor Swift's lore, but I know that Kelce is largely progressive, and has quietly supported Kamala.

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I could be wrong, and I know he's left on some things, but it's mostly the refusal to denounce things said by the more outwardly right wing teammates he has (Butker) and apparent happiness at playing in front of Trump at the super bowl. If he's not actually maga, he's as least centrist enough to be ok with magats.

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought he was a fascist or a sympathizer until just now.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe you were going by appearance? He sure looks like one. I'm a middle-aged white redneck, only my long hair might clue you in I'm no MAGA.

About appearances, I was at a party in the state park last week. The only other white guy was the birthday girl's husband and everyone was mostly speaking Tagalog and bits of broken Spanish, so him and I talked a good bit. This dude is 69 and really struck me as MAGA.

"Damned glad I'm done serving. I couldn't take orders from that orange moron."

LOL, and we were off to the races! The one's who are MAGA rarely surprise me when I find out, but my prejudice often bites me when I assume.

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah fair enough.

I think I got caught up in the teammates wife being super maga or something

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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 weeks ago

"won't let us forget"

... Thafuq is this bullshit wording? Grow a spine or STFU, drama pet.

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

This article has a unique-looking link and I couldn't find it anywhere on on the HuffPo site. Why?

[–] JoeTheSane@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it’s a good album.

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

why

[–] JoeTheSane@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

The songs are catchy and the one about her husbands dick was hilarious.

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