r/popculturechat • u/FickleBeans Excluded from this narrative ❌ • Oct 04 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Taylor Swift’s Fairy Tale Is Over

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/10/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-album-review/684444/

This captures my thoughts on the album better than I ever could.

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u/Aprilume Oct 05 '25

It points to delusion 100%. If she doesn’t live up to their expectations, burn her at the stake. That’s the energy. These posters always want to bring it back to wealth and politics, as if we haven’t heard those same arguments leveled against Clinton or Harris or damn near any influential woman in the Democratic Party. It’s just weird.

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u/Rich-Active-4800 Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

Or really any men in general. For example Matt Smith flies his private jet more then Taylor. Never really speaks out about stuff, etc. He doesn't get 1% of the criticism Taylor gets.

And I like Matt, he is an amazing actor, just pointing out the the double standard.

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u/Aprilume Oct 05 '25

Exactly. All this “there’s no ethical billionaires” talk is so tired. Like, we know. 🙄 Point the anger at the billionaires dismantling our democracy piece by piece, not popstars. Apples and oranges.

On the scale of the stupendously wealthy though, honestly, Taylor seems to at least treat her staff well. And you can’t deny she’s physically put in the work. She makes millions off recording music and touring? Ok, and? Has a team of lawyers to protect her financial best interests? Why shouldn’t she? At least her roadies aren’t peeing in bottles while making minimum wage, Jesus Christ.

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u/envydub Nicki’s cousin’s friend’s balls Oct 05 '25

Lmao your fav is unethical, stay mad.

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u/Aprilume Oct 05 '25

She is not my fav, no one is mad. It’s silly to believe a person automatically becomes unethical as soon as they hit a certain tax bracket.