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What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 52 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Taylor Swift. Like, I get that billionaires are a problem, and her carbon footprint is huge. On the list of problematic billionaires, I feel like she really doesn't do that much problematic shit compared to the others.

Musk is a Nazi that gutted the US govt, Ellison has a laundry list of major issues, bezos is killing small businesses and bought a news company to whitewash himself, gates was involved with Epstein and did some shady shit to grow Microsoft, the waltons single handedly massacred thousands (millions?) of small businesses with anticompetitive practices.

I really don't think that Swift rises remotely close to the same level of degeneracy and existential threat that these guys do, yet the only other billionaire I see getting criticised as much as her is Musk.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    "Yes, but have you considered the fact that she is a woman, women enjoy her music, and women enjoying things is a problem because they're wrong? It's like you don't even have a vendetta against pumpkin spice! " - general underlying factor

    "her music is not deep" - the opinion of men whose only exposure to her music is the pop songs that gets airtime, not the lyrical depths of the rest of the album that directly hits women in the feels

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    On the first point: yeah, I didn't even want to get into the underlying sexism that drives the critique lol.

    On the second: yeah, she made a billion dollars on her music. If you want to appeal to that wide of an audience, you're going to need to pump out some generic shit, at least on occasion. It's not really a great criticism of her, because that's her main skill. She can throw together 10 somewhat specific songs to cater to the fan base, then 2 tracks that get massive airtime and hook more people into the fan base. She's literally the best at it by the numbers.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    No different than Lady Gaga's method which I feel took off a little sooner. The pop funds the art. I appreciate Swift's singing ability, but I enjoy Gaga's range when she makes her actual music. The theatrics, peaking with the meat suit? Just marketing to make her name the name to invite.

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