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Celeb News: Lorde: Taylor Swift isn't good for young girls
Member Since: 8/19/2013
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I'm gonna go off on a tangent here, but the whole "role model" thing grates on me A LOT. Why is every female pop star expected to be a role model? Back in the day when NSYNC, BSB, Britney, and Xtina were on top- Xtina and Britney were expected to set a good example and be virginal and pure, while NO one expected the same out of either of the boybands. When Justin Bieber was 16 and asking women years older than him out on dates people laughed and thought it was cute, but if any of the pop girls did that with men? They're ****s, *****s, and they set a bad example for young girls. Rihanna is cited as a bad role model over and over again and yet, despite the many criticisms he gets, I've rarely seen Chris Brown being attacked for being a bad role model for young men.
The more people go on about this role model ********, the more I believe it has less to do with feminism and more to do with society wanting to control what female popstars (and other female celebs) do. Society ALWAYS wants women to act a certain way and this is such a great way for them to do it, hide behind the excuse of setting a good example for young girls, of being feminists when really all they're doing is tearing down women and their choices. Taylor shouldn't be looked down at just because she's pretty or she gets boys. That line of thinking has nothing to do with feminism.
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by Sunlighter
Her life? Maybe not, but her career...
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She's been single for most of her career. If anything, her career relies more on not having a boyfriend, i.e. having her heart broken by those useless boys. She is richer and more successful than every guy she has dated. If you want a girl who's needed to cling to a boyfriend for a career, you need to look at Selena and Miley, in the time after Hannah Montana and before she broke up with the potato face and started slaying. Taylor, showing the girls the righteous way.
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Well she's right about Taylor being flawless.
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Member Since: 11/17/2011
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Lorde jist might make it into my Sig... I'll wait a couple more months until her body count raises some more
the white Azealia
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by Merryweather
I'm gonna go off on a tangent here, but the whole "role model" thing grates on me A LOT. Why is every female pop start expected to be a role model? Back in the day when NSYNC, BSB, Britney, and Xtina were on top- Xtina and Britney were expected to set a good example and be virginal and pure, while NO one expected the same out of either of the boybands. When Justin Bieber was 16 and asking women years older than him out on dates people laughed and thought it was cute, but if any of the pop girls did that with men? They're ****s, *****s, and they set a bad example for young girls. Rihanna is cited as a bad role model over and over again and yet, despite the many criticisms he gets, I've rarely seen Chris Brown being attacked for being a bad role model for young men.
The more people go on about this role model ********, the more I believe it has less to do with feminism and more to do with society wanting to control what female popstars (and other female celebs) do. Society ALWAYS wants women to act a certain way and this is such a great way for them to do it, hide behind the excuse of setting a good example for young girls, of being feminists when really all they're doing is tearing down women and their choices. Taylor shouldn't be looked down at just because she's pretty or she gets boys. That line of thinking has nothing to do with feminism.
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you should read taylor's interview for glamour magazine, she thinks exactly like you.
http://eyesopen.tumblr.com/ you can find the interview here
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by Merryweather
The more people go on about this role model ********, the more I believe it has less to do with feminism and more to do with society wanting to control what female popstars (and other female celebs) do. Society ALWAYS wants women to act a certain way and this is such a great way for them to do it, hide behind the excuse of setting a good example for young girls, of being feminists when really all they're doing is tearing down women and their choices. Taylor shouldn't be looked down at just because she's pretty or she gets boys. That line of thinking has nothing to do with feminism.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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She's 16?????????????????????????????? I thought that users saying that was just shade
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Member Since: 11/9/2011
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She's making a name for herself in all the wrong ways
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Member Since: 8/24/2008
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Originally posted by Merryweather
I'm gonna go off on a tangent here, but the whole "role model" thing grates on me A LOT. Why is every female pop start expected to be a role model? Back in the day when NSYNC, BSB, Britney, and Xtina were on top- Xtina and Britney were expected to set a good example and be virginal and pure, while NO one expected the same out of either of the boybands. When Justin Bieber was 16 and asking women years older than him out on dates people laughed and thought it was cute, but if any of the pop girls did that with men? They're ****s, *****s, and they set a bad example for young girls. Rihanna is cited as a bad role model over and over again and yet, despite the many criticisms he gets, I've rarely seen Chris Brown being attacked for being a bad role model for young men.
The more people go on about this role model ********, the more I believe it has less to do with feminism and more to do with society wanting to control what female popstars (and other female celebs) do. Society ALWAYS wants women to act a certain way and this is such a great way for them to do it, hide behind the excuse of setting a good example for young girls, of being feminists when really all they're doing is tearing down women and their choices. Taylor shouldn't be looked down at just because she's pretty or she gets boys. That line of thinking has nothing to do with feminism.
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Bitch you better come SLAY me.
Ugh yess I stan for you
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Member Since: 6/16/2010
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Originally posted by Dancehall Queen
Feminism isn't about attacking every other female though, and I don't think she gets that part of it and the culture she's propelling by criticizing all her female contemporaries.
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Agree.
She obviously has some maturing to do, she is at the know-it-all phase of her teenage years and her success is feeding that.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by BobBertran1992
She's 16?????????????????????????????? I thought that users saying that was just shade
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Even though she might not look it in her photos, her attitude screams 16.
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Member Since: 5/15/2011
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I don't care about any of the names she (or her mother) have called out, but I don't get why she seems to have other celebs names on her tongue so much. Is it because she makes really basic music, thus needs this type of exposure?
She's like Azealia Banks in a white-girl, tumblr music body.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Dani97
you should read taylor's interview for glamour magazine, she thinks exactly like you.
http://eyesos pen.tumblr.com/ you can find the interview here
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Thanks for the link. I think when Taylor first started out she had some lyrics that weren't very female-friendly, but it seems like she's grown out of that and recently I've really begun to agree with a lot of the things she says. Taylor's a great example of women not being able to win in this industry no matter what they do or how they act. When she debuted people criticized her for portraying herself as virginal/pure and different from those other girls that wore "short skirts," and now that she's grown up and been in relationships she 's called a **** and then deemed immature for writing about her relationships in her music. No matter what she does people will find some way to complain.
Did you ever notice how the same people who hated on Taylor for bringing up her ex in her acceptance speech at the VMAs heaped praise on top of praise for JT, who basically created his solo career by making a song all about his ex? The double standards society has are crazy.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Her career is not going to fall because she's criticising a bunch of pop girls. Her main demographic isn't even the gays. People who think their dislike of Lorde automatically means a tear in the fabric of her career need to get over themselves. I'm cackling with every new Lorde thread.
Have you confessed your sins to the LORDe?
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Member Since: 7/15/2012
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I like her
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Member Since: 11/6/2010
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Not again.
She better enjoy that one hit and relevancy while she can.
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Member Since: 4/10/2012
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Just few days on the top of US iTunes makes her think she's American sweetheart
Criticizing other artists is cute if you do it sometimes. But if you do it too much, you look like a bitter gurl try to be queen of anything
I still like her music BTW
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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she basically said Taylor is too pretty for young girls to stan for Stan bitch stan
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by Merryweather
Thanks for the link. I think when Taylor first started out she had some lyrics that weren't very female-friendly, but it seems like she's grown out of that and recently I've really begun to agree with a lot of the things she says. Taylor's a great example of women not being able to win in this industry no matter what they do or how they act. When she debuted people criticized her for portraying herself as virginal/pure and different from those other girls that wore "short skirts," and now that she's grown up and been in relationships she 's called a **** and then deemed immature for writing about her relationships in her music. No matter what she does people will find some way to complain.
Did you ever notice how the same people who hated on Taylor for bringing up her ex in her acceptance speech at the VMAs heaped praise on top of praise for JT, who basically created his solo career by making a song all about his ex? The double standards society has are crazy.
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That's the way it is and I don't think it's gonna change, anytime soon. especially when the so called feminists are the first to bring other women down.
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