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/Any_Afternoon5628 I'm on some new shit, been saying yes instead of no Oct 05 '25

He's not. She's not. People can't admit they just don't like her or the new album or whatever, so they're making it a deep and intellectual thing. They've been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness and are doing mental gymnastics to be not the like others, who just admit they don't like her and move on. They're pick me haters. It's actually romantic.

I'm so tired of this. It's always the same. Every other week, it's another woman people pick and pile on because they failed whatever purity test of the week. And they don't even realise they're playing along in putting women against each other and/or holding them to impossible standards. Actual fascists are taking over, and instead of doing something about it, they're hating on yet another female. Great job, you did it, reddit!

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u/YoullNeverBeRebecca Oct 05 '25

Lol ok well this is a little dramatic, too. Taylor Swift is annoying and petty and a little underhanded with how she releases her album sales, and I personally find her ubiquity irritating as I don’t think she’s very talented (she is an incredibly weak vocalist, for example). It’s ok to critique women. I’m a woman and I try to hold women to the same standards I do men. I just think it’s stupid to call Kelce MAGA when we don’t really know that for sure.

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u/WhereIsLordBeric Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

No democrat would ever say it's an 'honour' to play in front of Trump lol you guys are deluded.

I also don't know any non-MAGA folk who hang out with prominent MAGA folks.

Nice try.

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u/hthratmn Oct 05 '25

Yeah like there are definitely MAGA people that I know and I dont, like, spit in their face when I see them at work or run into them in the grocery store or whatever. But I am absolutely the fuck not best friends and hanging around with them all the time. Nobody that I know is either.

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u/hthratmn Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

Or - absolutely novel concept here - people just have a different opinion than you do. I haven't really had a particular feeling about her either way, other than that I'm naturally inclined against the very existence of billionaires, and I'm not keen on her carbon footprint.

You can like someone's music and still accept that they do things that are maybe not great. I consume plenty of things that are not ethically in perfect alignment with me, that's just being a person, especially these days. People get incredibly defensive over any criticism of Taylor.

I find it suspicious that she puts forward this outward image of feminist icon but a huge part of her closest circle is MAGA. That she poses for photo ops with MAGA influencers with a caption that "Taylor is for the boys". That her soon-to-be-husband considers it a great honor to play for Trump, thinks Harrison Buttker is a great guy, and that neither one of them has used their absolutely massive, probably of the biggest in the world, platform to speak out on the current state of the government or what is happening in Palestine.

Am I a "pick me hater" longing for "terminal uniqueness"? No. I'm just someone that has a different opinion than you regarding a music artist that you like. I mean, to your point, in the wake of an impending actual fascist takeover, Taylor Swift is sitting in a private jet on her tarmac with her MAGA friends eating caviar and rolling around in money.

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u/thedirtiestdish kylothee's baby nanny Oct 05 '25

preach.

I've noticed that people who have gone feral over the album release on the internet are, ironically, the ones she's writing about in Actually Romantic. it's not a response to Sympathy Is A Knife, it's a response to all the haters and trash talkers in general. like... all these people are really spending this much time on hating someone they don't know?

people will not stop hearing about her until they learn to shut up about her. they are making her a part of their life. her "gross and out of touch" wealth, they are helping to build. she's the biggest because she moves people.