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Celeb News: The Daily Beast: Is America Turning on Taylor Swift?
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The Daily Beast: Is America Turning on Taylor Swift?
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In Marie Claire's upcoming September issue, genderqueer unicorn Miley Cyrus opens up about her career, her happiness, and Hollywood’s double standards. She also contributes to a growing Taylor Swift backlash, singling out the singer’s “Bad Blood” video for violent imagery: “I don’t get the violence revenge thing... That’s supposed to be a good example? And I’m a bad role model because I’m running around with my titties out? I’m not sure how titties are worse than guns.”
Swift, with her lavish New York City apartment, bevy of hot girlfriends, and devoted ab-having boyfriend, has officially attained most popular girl in school status. TSwift got her start penning heartsick ballads about bad boys—because if a Taylor Swift breakup doesn’t inspire an album of tell-all tearjerkers, did the former celebrity couple even go on two to five glamorous, thoroughly documented dinner dates?! Swift’s infamous taste in celebrity hunks, which ranged from the formerly un****able (Joe Jonas) to the currently un****able (John Mayer), was a product of our current **** boi era. Exhausted by hookup culture and the sheer effort of pretending that Justin Bieber is hot, teenage girls flocked to the Swift school of monetizing and low-key bullying emotionally unavailable exes. It’s a classic tale of sweet, All-American girl gets the guy, then gets the girls by dumping the guy and talking all sorts of smack about him. Swift artfully walked this line between pity and empowerment, even going so far as to name her two cats (!) after sad girl icons Olivia Benson and Meredith Grey.
But like any hard-working teen queen, TSwift is due for her Regina George moment—a fall from grace akin to being pushed in front of a moving school bus (most likely by Katy Perry). The seeds of Swift backlash were planted way back in 2013, a simpler time when Cecil the Lion still roamed and Taylor Swift didn’t keep Gigi Hadid chained to a radiator in the basement of her Rhode Island estate. After our patron saints of female comedy Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made a Golden Globes joke about Swift’s dating proclivities, Swift retorted with the Madeleine Albright quote, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” Swift’s hurt feelings would have been entirely unremarkable, except for the interesting precedent they set of Swift invoking feminism as a way to defend Taylor Swift—not as a complex movement that ought to serve needy women before bitter celebrities.
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From twerking for laughs to attacking Apple Music, Swift’s backlash-inducing problem isn’t that she’s particularly outrageous or ignorant—it’s that everything she does, under the guise of sweetness and sincerity, actually seems remarkably self-serving. Her newly-earned reputation as a no-nonsense business lady and a fair weather feminist is a far cry from her accessible, girl power public image. And those pseudo-humble awards show acceptance speeches aren’t helping either.
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The rest can be found here
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...lor-swift.html
Thoughts? I kinda agree, this article does sum up most of my thoughts about her.
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I mean, Kanye warned us about her.
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 not them comparing the pop world to high school/Mean Girls
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About time. 
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Every star of her stature at this point in power has a backlash. If they figure out how to survive it, they keep going.
In terms of (white) pop girls, Madonna had ~2 and they were arguably much bigger (Erotica/Sex Book, American Life). She survived. I'd bring up Janet in terms of a pop star not surviving her backlash but that leads to a race conversation that isn't a relevant comparison. Britney's backlash was her personal life in shambles and Gaga's a perfect storm of backlash that was not balancing her politic-pop combined with the R.Kelly/fired manager/ArtPop fiasco.
This seems like something new entirely so we'll see. Her next era will be the true test of her power.
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The audience at large isn't aware of this yet but hopefully she keeps digging her own grave.
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I think it's just a touch of overexposure; she needs to fall back for a bit, give people a chance to miss her. People are finding reasons to go in on her at this point and I think it's just a side effect of being kind of tired of her. This relentless promo and constant exposure for a solid year now has been a lot. Like the Bad Blood video for instance was what, a 3/4th single and got hyped more than a lot of girls' leads. Just too much.
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The clocks tho 
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Apparently stuck in a Shia LaBeouf-style haze of confusion, Swift confused this cultural commentary for a personal attack. Once again channeling her unique “me-me-me” wave of feminism, she @’d Minaj [...] Because feminism means never having to say, “As a white woman, let me step back and acknowledge that I have no idea what you’re talking about.” Her zero percent success rate aside, Swift insisted on breaking out her “if you are mean to me, you are not a feminist” jujitsu.
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Despite an outpouring of support from such white luminaries as Ed Sheeran and everyone’s racist grandma, Tay Tay eventually plead guilty to social media malpractice, apologizing, “I thought I was being called out. I missed the point, I misunderstood, then misspoke. I’m sorry, Nicki.” That tepid pile of words probably had more ghostwriters than Drake’s entire discography.
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No, America basically sees her as the real life Hanna Montana.
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Not a lie in sight though...
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She's just... everywhere.
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This is what we know from data: It’s one of the fastest-growing news and information sites year-over-year in the “General News” category. With a Comscore growth rate of 52 percent year-over-year, as compared to 31 percent for the top 25 news sites overall, The Daily Beast drives more than 12 million unique visitors a month, surpassing some notable legacy magazines.
February 2015 article - Politico
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I don't think they're "turning on her" but I think some people are getting tired of her being everywhere. It happens when anyone is overexposed or at their peak, but they're not turning on her because I'm sure her next album will still be successful.
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She is becoming overexposed she needs to disappear a bit
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she's everywhere while doing nothing. only a powerful impactful taytay.
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I didn't say anything.
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