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Originally posted by Val
1) Sexism
The tradition of musical score-settling stretches all the way back to medieval troubadours and lyre-plucking ancients; it’s been a mainstay of American song at least since the first bluesman aimed an acidic twelve-bars at the woman who’d done him wrong. Bob Dylan is an incorrigible, at times malicious, kisser-and-teller; for decades, rock critics have been quoting with admiration Elvis Costello’s famous dictum: “The only motivation points for me writing all these songs are revenge and guilt.” Drake’s new album Nothing Was the Same is, as usual, a vérité catalogue of his “bitches” and booty calls, in which he goes so far as to name one of his civilian exes, “Courtney from *Hooters on Peachtree”—a creepier move by far than Swift’s sly swipes at her famous former beaux. It’s hard not to detect a sexist double standard in the policing of Swift’s confessions, especially when you consider the routine misogyny in the songs of rockers, rappers, and woebegone beardy indie balladeers.
Jody Rosen- NY Magazine 11/13
2) She dated hot guys in the entertainment industry at the height of their popularity. The fictional relationships are mostly tied to Hot actors/singer.
Fangirls=Jealousy. They come in all ages. Not just tweens, teens, YA's.
3) No major missteps in her career so far. No drug scandal, no hanging out in clubs until the wee hours in the morning, no stripping down to lingerie , no diva attitude has been reported.
Too perfect, let's bring her down.
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*plays this is how we do, we do do do*
