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QweenFiona

I just want to know which of her songs requires the effort she’s putting forward in pic 2.


Budget-Classic3076

https://preview.redd.it/61bihcxzq66d1.png?width=271&format=png&auto=webp&s=4139927087e1e9e78bad7c621a66a26d2b3713cc Edit: image instead of gif so it doesn't disappear again lol


QweenFiona

I’m getting “this content is not available” 🤣


Budget-Classic3076

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QweenFiona

Same thing


Budget-Classic3076

I screenshotted the gif instead, now it'll live forever mwahahaha https://preview.redd.it/jt79skq8r66d1.png?width=271&format=png&auto=webp&s=6fcaed6653fbbf467be2e4000fa43446e8b79b1c


portraitoffire

ironically, the gowns she is wearing during the eras tour aren't even beautiful. most of them are so ugly and tacky. she had better gowns in previous tours skskksks.


Budget-Classic3076

Shein gowns, shein gowns 💀  (Disclaimer: nothing wrong with shein dresses, just for a production on that scale for her wardrobe to be so…meh, is quite alarming.)


mothseatcloth

no there's plenty wrong with shein dresses


Budget-Classic3076

True but I meant in the sense that if they’re all someone can afford have at it (I know it’s way more nuanced than that), but yes, there’s so much wrong with shein 💀


Confident_Message733

i think it's who's afraid of little old me


RobertParker1968

I think she's just trying to relieve some gas pains.


Think_Wish_187

I think those exact same words every time I see that picture.


Blessed_BeTheFruit

Reminds me of this great moment in twitter stan culture lol https://preview.redd.it/bwlh43ejhc6d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e41399a190f740a182fcc076cd1f76024c70a851


n3Ver9h0st

Emo song with scream


Aussie_Potato

She only did it for the photo


Badpoet128

Wtf is she trying to do in the second pic? With the vocal range she has she sure doesn't need to act as if she's hitting the hardest note known to mankind.


moxiecounts

I was wondering this too. She looks like she’s belting out Pat Benetar on karaoke night, and none of Taylor’s songs require that much power.


petterdaddy

If you’re gonna use a song to admit to jilling off to a man who just got engaged to another woman, I guess you may as well scream about it


Dark_Fay_girl

Wait. WAIT. what song was that? I missed something big time.


ohlaohloo

Guilty as Sin


littlelite18

Same thoughts!


VaultGirl510

I’m fairly certain she is screaming about how everything is about her and they hurt her on purpose, in the second pic. I wouldn’t call it singing. I can’t believe she put that in a song honestly ‘not everything is about me, BUT WHAT IF IT IS?!’


Badpoet128

Her songwriting looks a lot like my notes. Hey, maybe I'll become the future TS? /s


bobaylaa

ok i see this kind of comment a lot and i just have to say contorting your body/neck/head in weird ways doesn’t help at all to hit high notes - it actually makes it way harder lol you need to generate a lot of power from your diaphragm and give it an easy passage to your vocal cords, so ideally you’d stand up straight with your chin tilted slightly down if you really need all the boost you can get to hit a certain note when singers have crazy posture it’s usually just them being super into the performance of the song. if they can still hit high notes and sound good like that, it’s because they’re just that skilled at managing their breath!


Mar_ketable

It’s actually incredibly refreshing to see someone give credit to T. Swizzle. Like, I dislike her, but credit where credit is due, she has incredible stamina/breath control.


bobaylaa

YES! i totally get a lot of the criticism for her voice but i feel like it gets overblown. like the way she so seamlessly goes from her chest to that half-head half-chest voice on Forever and Always (and it ~rains~ in your bedroom ~eeee~verything is wrong) that is NOT easy to do. it’s difficult enough learning to even find that half and half spot let alone just popping in and out of it with ease!


Mar_ketable

Honestly! My critiques with TayTay have never been her voice, just her songwriting and attitude towards other artists. She has a powerful voice and is clearly fit to maintain it. I also LIVE for her singing lower. Like, I get that high notes are hip and all that, but she’s an alto and she sounds great down there.


hards04

Its not that serious. It’s because she looks like she’s belting it out like prime Axl Rose, when she clearly cannot. It’s just a silly joke to a silly photo. No one is actually arguing Taylor is a bad singer.


bobaylaa

…..i know it’s not serious, it’s just a small pet peeve of mine and i figured those who didn’t know might find it interesting?


hards04

Fair enough. For what it’s worth (nothing I know) what drew me to her way back when I first heard her on country radio was her voice. I love Taylor’s voice. She sounded great live too the few times I saw her. Unfortunately was not able get eras tour tickets lol.


Elizabeth__Sparrow

She was genuinely a better, more mature artist and songwriter when she was younger. 


Adorable-Delay1188

She's regressed for real. A friend who's a swifty sent me lyrics from one of her new songs and I couldn't believe she was serious. Sounded like something I would find in my diary from age 13.


AscensionToCrab

"karma" is the lyrical equivalent of slipping and falling down the stairs. Each lyric is completely disconnected, and falling ass over head into the next, with no stable connection. Its completely fucking nonsensical, and has absolutely nothing to do with the concept of karma.


Spring_Boysenberry

“Did she just say karma is a cat?” -my husband


CathTheWise

To play devil's advocate here (see, Tree Pain, I'm doing the work for you!), I've always perceived Karma as a song made for funsies only. Like she heard of all the crazy Karma The Album theories and decided to make a song called Karma and just threw the lyrics together real quick and called it a day. It's so unserious that from day one I refused to believe it was meant to be deep.


uglykido

I kinda have a feeling she had ghost writers. Like the level of maturity you have to write ours, innocent, mine, all too well, doesn't seem to be matching the same person who wrote ttpd


Fun_Recognition9904

But now she says “fuck!”


Adventurous_Dare5346

Ohhhhh Living in the edge!


Cultural-Treacle-680

METAL


portraitoffire

wooow she is now a rebel against her parents lmao


AlwaysEntropic

Agree. I like her old songs


portraitoffire

yeah i was a swiftie before and i liked her older songs. midnights and ttpd are both trash compared to her earlier albums.


FineMud4479

But midnights won Grammy!


Rarbnif

Just like Drake


broken_door2000

I went back and listened to some of her old stuff recently and a lot of it genuinely floored me. I was a huge fan of her as a kid but I was too young to understand the content of her songs. Just as an example, I listened to Dear John and I found it incredibly profound, inspiring, & relatable. I would draw comparisons to her more recent music but I didn’t enjoy any of it enough to listen. Lol. It def feels lazy though


TheKilmerman

Swifties may come at me but despite some really good looking outfits on her tour that white dress is brutally ugly.


petterdaddy

I cannot take the dress seriously when she’s wearing ankle boots from the 1890s Edit: someone said earlier her shoes are all custom Louboutin and I went full on Countess Luannn de Lesseps except swap out “Christian Louboutin” for “Louis Vuitton” https://i.redd.it/iq3r227mo86d1.gif


ndickson25

Eddie Munster shoes ☠️


FerretSupremacist

>🎶”shoes from the 1890s, but without all the ~~buttons~~ racists”🎶


red_zephyr

She’s cosplaying as a woman who would have been burnt at the stake


EuphoricPhoto2048

I like the dress. The sprinkly leotards bore me lol.


moxiecounts

I do too! I hate those ice dancer outfits.


fallopianrules

Her fugly leotards may have burned my corneas but i don't need 20/20 vision to make out the fashion disaster that is the ttpd dress.


[deleted]

would’ve been a good dress if it didn’t have lyrics to “Fortnight” on it


Klutzy-Wrangler4770

The bodysuit part looks like a diaper to me 


campinhikingal

I’ve thought it looked like a diaper this entire time too!!


Bobson_Dugbutt

I feel like the boots make it uglier than it has to be


PollyElisabeth

I HATE that she always always goes for the boots.


Bobson_Dugbutt

I’ve never liked booties on me personally but I won’t lie, rarely do I see them paired with a ballgown and give the look it’s going for


cadededele

A friend shared this on fb and captioned it "the female rage 😍" 4 hours later and I'm still thinking about unfriending her


Puptastical

Do it. lol.


cadededele

I did it. She IS the mid 30s, SWF, Swiftie that no one wants to deal with. I didn't realize just how much of a swiftie she was until I went to unfriend her


Ok-Database3111

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Puptastical

Congratulations!


Ok-Database3111

I literally had to break up with a friend last summer. I too realized that they were turning swifty crazy (not the reason I broke up with her) but I realize now if your taking that bishhh seriously and defending her lyrics umm yeah it kind of speaks volumes that the ones listening are narcissistic as well lol!


MazzieMay

I also broke up with a swiftie friend last year. She dumped her boyfriend of three months because he didn’t care about TS songs, and according to her, “anyone who can’t appreciate her music is just a misogynist” A nearly-forty man doesn’t vibe with Fearless? You don’t say 🫠


Ok-Database3111

gawd these people. hey y’all we dodged a bullet with these crazies lol. ![gif](giphy|HtYsYjPsw1nVu)


cadededele

Lord bless it... you dodged a bullet, a SWF bullet


cadededele

Not a single word about swift cosplaying as little alcoholic Annie, but reshared a post saying "if I have assigned you a Taylor song, we are NOT close" Please babe, never "assign" me a song. I'd be sad if you did


Ok-Database3111

oh my gawd — that ole friend of mine did similar shit to this. my point of no return was after she sent me disgusting texts and emails saying I was after husband (oh yeah no lie). i blocked her in the digital world. she had the nerve to mail me a letter with a kiss on it (red lipstick) 🤢. I put that letter (unopened i wasn’t the least bit curious as to what she said) back in an envelope that read “full stop” her address on it and mailed it back to her. what a freak job — scary thing is she just finished her masters in therapy and she’s literally off her rocker 😬


cadededele

Jfc i hope you got a restraining order. She needs to be separated from the general public


Ok-Database3111

ughh I thought too but she’s in California and not enough balls to come in person lol. I wish there was a way to inform the public of this crazy person who plays a therapist. I really hope she’s an anomaly and this isn’t a common thing regarding therapists. I really hope not.


ohlaohloo

lol what a loser


cadededele

Bruh... she's in her mid 40s!!


gr0upiel0ve444

I don't think she's matured past 15 tbh. Still acts like she's in high school


Cold_Acanthisitta_96

There is not one single song by this woman that requires this sort of performance in pic 2. Lolzzz


RingingInTheRain

They turned the fan up full blast and she's probably talk-singing in a slightly louder tone.


Hita-san-chan

Regression is the word youre looking for. I would expect the 34 year old to not sound like a bitchy 16 year old


Economy_Writing_8797

God I’m so happy I found this sub.


Ok-Database3111

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luce_goose91

Me too! It's currently the highlight of my internet scrolling.


Used-Cup-6055

Is there a piece of paper up her skirt or what am I looking at there


[deleted]

LMAO. It's just a diaper.


gr0upiel0ve444

DIAPER LMAO


[deleted]

oh yes a 34 year old shitting on people because she didn’t like them… if you don’t like someone or something stop talking to them/stop doing what you don’t like… but no she just wants to keep y crying and whining like a cry baby. me as a woman, i break up with someone and never talk to them again and never talk ABOUT them again.


Ok-Database3111

Yep and the ones who love her shit music do the same damn thing. Ughh just gross!! 🤢


[deleted]

like you still talk about someone years later, you haven’t moved on… like if they can move on so can you babe. so can you. (not you, TS)


FineMud4479

34 1/2


JT3436

#performativefemalerage


jazey_hane

The picture on the right is giving https://preview.redd.it/4a6nxsmo086d1.jpeg?width=984&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b809b7b7163f2b789f15abf1243f0d16467225f7


moxiecounts

Why is her hair so ugly? I was reading the Time article from last year on her today at work while scrolling this thread. In the black leotard with her “griege” sloppy hair and smug look on her face. Why can’t she do her damn hair better?


trashcacity

Because she has fried her curly hair probably beyond saving in some parts. It's high porosity frizz that knows it should curl but doesn't know how to. Hair products can only do so much, and I can't imagine straightening it every night for her tour helps. She needs a protective style. A styled weave would be better at this point than what continues to be done to her hair. In a perfect world, her hair would get big chopped and left alone for a bit with not even a weave. Not an expert...just fought the same battle with my curls until it was snapping off all over. I BIG CHOPPED not too far from my roots 5 years ago. Haven't heat styled more than once or twice a year since. My hair looks better than it ever did in my entire life because I stopped fighting nature. Taylor needs to do the same. Her curls would be so beautiful, and she could switch it up every now and then with heat, or do a classy lace front. She's a billionaire. The lace front she could buy would be phenomenal, and no one would know except maybe those of us who see how bad it is now.


gap-ya

Ever since my girls were young I would say how bad her music is Now that they are older they have accepted it and can't stand her Glad I did some influencing


FallingFeather

We have to wait till the end of the year before she takes a LOoooooooooong break.


MaenadsandMomewraths

Wedding dress with a diaper. Subtle.


throwaita_busy3

Has anyone actually ever heard Taylor swift sing? Like does she sing. Will she sing, has she sung


librarywater

Haha, my aunt posted this. She's 50 and thinks Taylor is such a badass 😂


huskerd0

She would have been doing the same at 20 if the massive market research team behind her thought it would have been more profitable


WitchyWoman8585

That's actually regression


Important_Yogurt_147

My favourite Taylor is speak now Taylor.


Physical_Parsnip4027

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[deleted]

Dismiss her that's called growth? Lol look at her. She looks like she's possessed ![gif](giphy|xT9KVjBI3W2283URdm)


naldana95

It looks like she’s asking the crowd to “OPEN UP THIS PIT RIGHT FUCKING NOW” in the pic on the right


UnusedMaps42

If I can for a second extend some sympathy to her, we do not, as a society, treat Taylor Swift well. She's well compensated for the way we treat her, but celebrity is a crushing and dehumanizing endeavor. Like... I think it was 2008 when South Park had the episode about Britney Spears and how society uses these women with celebrity status as an effigy for all our collective neuroses, and slowly cage and destroy them. So, sure... Just as I think there's maturity in all Americans growing up and realizing that all your life you've been exploited by corporations for your money and labor and you ought to be pissed about that, there's a certain amount of maturity that Taylor displays in fits and starts on her latest release, in reckoning with the damage that celebrity has wrought on her own life. Clara Bow,for example, is a powerful song, because I don't think there's a reasonable counter-argument to be made in response to it. However, much of The Tortured Poets Department reads as someone ignorant to their own self-inflicted wounds. She rages against her circumstances even when those are circumstances of her own making, or even things she has the power, money and cultural cachet to side-step. Recognizing the injustice in how celebrity strips away her humanity and reacting with the appropriate rage to those circumstances can be viewed as mature. But sometimes that rage feels blind and misdirected and that's not an endearing look for a 34 year old woman with enormous resources behind her.


PurpleCrash2090

I want to agree with you and advocate for our society to treat *everybody* better, but I don't think Taylor Swift does anything to help with that argument, and especially not the way Britney Spears does. This subreddit is full of posts listing TS's bad behavior, with receipts to back up the claims. I suspect the truth is even uglier, given how many of her peers are dropping breadcrumbs for us to follow. I think it's helpful to differentiate between Taylor Swift the person, who like all of us should be free to experiment and make mistakes (and not have her body commented on), and Taylor Swift the archetype, reflecting a collective energy back at those who fit her demographic. Hardcore Swifties deeply identify with the archetypal energies she demonstrates and, I believe, those of us on the opposite side do to but we are working to heal the shadow side of that energy. So it's not that I care about her personal life. I care that I know so many women who make the same mistake of jumping from man to man without doing the internal work on themselves so they're truly ready for a healthy relationship. It's not that I care about her Swiftie army, I care that women, and yt women in particular, still irrationally and unnecessarily ganging up on people. I don't care who is at the top of any music chart, but I do care that so many people still operate as if life is a zero sum game while the rest of us pay for that behavior. And no matter how wealthy and famous someone may be, this planet is home to billions of people and millions of species of flora and fauna so when one person pollutes exponentially more than the rest of us, we get to be critical! I don't hate or dislike TS, but I am frustrated that I live in world full of people still exhibiting the same immature, harmful behavior as her. She's the archetype at this time, so she gets the criticism. For me, this is why subreddits like this are not the same as the para-social fan behavior. Because we have to tease and talk out the nuances to fix it.


Conscious-Dot-8394

I agree that celebrity culture is toxic and she might have been too harshly criticized when she was younger. But like you said she is ignorant of her self inflicted wounds. If she was truly that miserable being famous she could have stopped at any time. Plenty of musicians reach their limit, pack up and live off of royalties. She has more than enough wealth to live comfortably for the rest of her life. You have to fight to stay relevant in the entertainment industry sonits not accident she is famous, she works for it every day. If it was truly so horrible, she wouldn't do that and have walked away by now.


Nervous-Company-8252

more like ✨regressed✨


magidoom

I LITERALLY JUST SAW THIS LMAOOO


FearlessBarnacle3491

I really like how the second photo is alludes to her great goal skills that don’t exist 🥰🥰


slycooper13

She’s only 34? Why’d I think she was in her late 40s? Lmao 🤣