An Essay: I just don’t get Taylor Swift

I have never gotten something out of a Taylor Swift song about love, loss, heartbreak, revenge, shame or self-actualization that I couldn’t have gotten from dozens of other artists. It honestly feels like I missed a day in White woman class when they explained, in detail, all of the ley lines of feminine kinship that are supposed to connect our paths with hers.

WhathatI, WhathatI, WhathatI done to deserve Taylor

OP - someone types a dumbass text every half second. Very few of these texts deserved threads.

I get her, that’s why I don’t like her.

Popular music has been based on urban R&B / hip-hop, gay culture, street / hip culture, even “punk rock” culture since the 2000’s.

Taylor Swift is anti-that. She’s not cool, she’s not hip, she was an upper middle class white girl from the suburbs and that’s who she speaks to.

That’s why a lot of people don’t get her or like her, she’s not for them.

She’s like Celine Dion and teenage Britney and Alanis Morissette rolled into one.

No one over 30 is meant to 'get' Taylor.

Think about how boomers felt about Madonna in the '80s. She was everywhere and they didn't get the fuss.

Anyone 30+ into Taylor needs a life.

R4 - and also Sheryl Crow

R5 - I was 19 when her first album came out. She was born in 1989, I’m 1987, so she does have fans in their 30s.

Speaking of that era, there were white girls my age listening to Miley Cyrus and Hilary Duff and weren’t into Nelly Furtado and Gwen Stefani. Those girls I imagine are my age still listening to Taylor Swift lol.

Taylor was very smart. She targeted white girls cause she was one. She knew to make country music because it was the only type of music parents would let little girls listen to amongst “My Humps” and “Maneater” and country was still a huge seller back then.

And then when the sinful Lady Gaga EDM started to wear off, she dropped “Red” that had her first crossover pop songs when those young girls were teenagers and finally allowed to not have to share the radio with their parents.

Get thee to a blog, varlet!

Who has never listened to a Taylor Swift song out of their own volition? 🖐️

I don't get The Beatles or Elvis. Why were these young girls creaming themselves over them? But it's inconsequential, so I'm not going to write an article for cnn.com about it.

If you don’t like her please move on and quit posting and commenting about her

Can the tiresome phrase "There! I said it!" please be banned from DL?

I really just don’t understand why people who don’t like her have to make it their entire personality. It really gets on my nerves when people act like disliking a popular thing automatically makes them intellectually superior or more interesting. And as we can see from this article, it clearly doesn’t.

I periodically try to listen to her because I’m curious about her immense popularity, but absolutely nothing sticks.

She is boring to me and her lyrics are rather pedestrian. To each his own but to me she is one big MEH.

Insipid is the word I think best describes her music.

I even like a couple of that Miley's song.

It is kind of like Madonna. But Madonna had really catchy, memorable songs. I'm a teacher, and compared to last year, Taylor Swift hysteria has died down quite a bit.

It’s not like Madonna.

Someone like Doja Cat is like Madonna. Someone who older people don’t understand where there’s a big gap between generational culture.

It’s very obvious the gap between Stevie Nicks and Pat Benetar fans of the late 70’s and when Madonna came onto the scene in. 1982. 2 different worlds.

This isn’t a different world to anyone. We’re talking about a very vanilla artist.

Basically … if I could look at my 22 or 23 year-old self back in 2009 and 2010, I never in a million years thought Taylor Swift would have a bigger career than Lady Gaga. Gaga was supposed to be the next Madonna.

But Taylor Swift. To me it’s like if Hillary Duff became the #1 biggest artist in the world.

It’s just crazy.

If this was the 80’s, Taylor would be like if Belinda Carlisle had as big of a career as Michael Jackson.

[quote] She’s like Celine Dion and teenage Britney and Alanis Morissette rolled into one.

I don't know about Celine Dion. Her biggest fanbase was fraus of all races, while Taylor's is primarily young white girls. Plus, Celine Dion was appreciated by people who liked great singing.

I don’t know a single Taylor Swift song besides Blank Space. She writes her own music, she’s a smart businesswoman and a positive role model for young girls. She seems harmless to me.

[QUOTE] really just don’t understand why people who don’t like her have to make it their entire personality. It really gets on my nerves when people act like disliking a popular thing automatically makes them intellectually superior or more interesting.

FUCK OFF, SWIFTIE!

Swift is fine, but lands as a bit soulless for me so she's not not my jam. The tribal behaviour and social display from her fans, especially in the last few years, is annoying but benign...for now.

I don’t get her either. But I don’t get her so much I would never have to write an essay about it.

If she can help Biden get elected, I'll worship at her throne!

I do love her anti-homophobic song - "You Need to Calm Down" (though I haven't really given much else of hers a chance.)

This is a CNN article?!

[quote] If she can help Biden get elected

She can’t. I can’t believe Democrats are retard enough to be saying this. They know they’re fucked with Joe and are grasping at straws. Abortion isn’t going to do shit either when you haven’t even told people what you intend to do about the issue and why you haven’t done said thing for months. This is Hillary all over again - just hoping for the best with nothing to offer other than “I’m not the other guy” when the one in charge already everyone hates. These are probably the two worst candidates in history.

The Pet Shop Boys said it best: the majority of people couldn’t even name her songs. She’s more of a thing unhappy girls and gay men latch onto and live through because she’s a non-stop victim.

She's booooooooring. but if she gets her fans to vote Biden all is forgiven. I just dont know if she will go that far. Her thing is the carefully worded "go and and vote" not vote Biden or vote Blue.

R28 = Both sides Troll

No they are not both the same or both the worst choices in history. Biden has never been impeached, Trump is on number 2. Biden has a VP that supports him, Dump has lost his support form Mike Pence, Biden has never been convicted of fraud, defamation or sexual harassment, Dump has that and a lot more coming. Biden negotiated a bipartisan infrastructure bill worth over 1 trillion dollars, Dump failed 4 years in a row. Biden has the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, Dump saw a 15% to 25% unemployment rate during his time in office. Biden has given us the highest numbers on the Stock Market, Dump gave us Covid, empty shelves, an insurrection, BLM ritos and 1 million dead Americans.

[quote]Who has never listened to a Taylor Swift song out of their own volition?

R10 Me. Just hasnt ocurred to me to do so.

I dont dislike Taylor Swift. Or really like here either, in the same way I dont really dislike or like the weather in Ashgabat (capital of Turkmenistan FYI). Musically I move in a completely different world, although she apparently borders on country which I do listen to some of. So I dont really have an opinion on here. She just is. Like Ashgabat

[quote]I do love her anti-homophobic song - "You Need to Calm Down" (though I haven't really given much else of hers a chance.)

R26 I will give her a chance and listen to this

Is she single yet?!