There’s a raging scandal going on regarding Taylor Swift’s latest album. A significant portion of the population thinks Swift is some sort of an intellectual and is emotionally invested into her lyrics. Which, I know, but most people have the intelligence of a fruit fly, so Swift’s lyrics sound profound to them.
In any case, Swift wrote a song in which she expressed a desire to have kids with her fiance. And now overripe but unplucked fans are throwing the most entertaining tantrums. Here’s one example:
The ones on TikTok and Instagram are funnier but I can’t link those.
Of course, I understand why these fans feel betrayed. Swift exploited their loneliness to project the image of being a lonely, rejected female, just like they are. Then she took the money fans gave her and invested it into looking marriageable at 35. She can also finance all sorts of reproductive technologies for herself. Of course, all the women who listened to her and thought, “see? There’s nothing wrong with being single and unmarried at 35, if the biggest pop star in the world is doing it” feel like dupes.
Don’t get married if you don’t want to but don’t trawl through song lyrics in search of validation. Taylor Swift isn’t a receptionist who validates your life success ticket. Enjoy the music but don’t turn an artist into your idol. The
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