Comments on: Why Taylor Swift Offends Little Monsters, Feminists, and Weirdos

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:25:24 +0000

Thank you so much for writing this article because it points out exactly what I’ve wanted to say.
On tumblr, there’s a little satire post running around that makes fun of her song “Fifteen” and a few people have blown it way out of proportion and started claiming that the entire feminist movement is against girls not having sex. Which is, obviously, not true. And then there’s the argument that she doesn’t know what she’s saying, which is honestly even scarier because if you don’t realize that you’re slut-shaming, and think that it’s totally okay, you probably should be told so.

Basically, I agree with everything.

By: kenny

kenny — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:39:17 +0000

you people are bunch of morons lol CX

By: Brandi.

Brandi. — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:08:59 +0000

This is the absolute best thing I’ve read in months! I love it.

By: H

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:29:59 +0000

yo this is gross.

By: Rose

Rose — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:19:08 +0000

But she performed at the Republican National Convention!

And last I read she wasn’t sharing who got her vote.

By: scooby

scooby — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:51:29 +0000

YES! This is exactly what I wanted to say. Thank you.

I Hate Taylor, but Gaga’s no prize either. It’s the same pre-packaged crap, just choose your ribbon to put on top.

Girl Next Door/You Belong With Me
Express Yourself/Born This Way (you KNOW this is true.)

By: jill

jill — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:37:36 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever read a more contradictory, unintelligent, and judgmental article. I myself am a proud feminist, and Taylor Swift is a person i consider to be an idol for young women everywhere. Contrary to your close-minded beliefs, she doesn’t just sing about men, she sings about things that people around her age, herself included, and anyone in general has feelings about. Love, anger, friendship, independence, growing up, being unsure, a lack of self confidence are all included in her wide spectrum of songs. As for her “apparent lack of intelligence”, if you would actually take the time to look at her achievements instead of making snap judgements unnecessarily, then you would realize just how talented, ethical, and intelligent she really is. She can write lyrics on her own, she can give a great interview to anyone, and she’s socially conscious of all decisions she makes. How dare you accuse her of being anti-feminist? You are one of the most hypocritical and sexist people based upon this forum. By attacking Swift for repetitive song themes and being too free, your holding a double standard to men and women everywhere. Singers such as Eminem, Kid Rock, and Akon just to name a few have many repetitive themes; sex,money, drugs, disrespect for women, and a general idea of imperialism are all included. So by saying Taylor Swift is anti-feminist and a bad role model in a sense, your holding the age-old double standard for men and women; your absolutely reinforcing the idea of everything for women has to be a double edged sword. As for your comments about any future children not looking up to Swift, why? Honestly, why? Would you rather they look up to a socially responsible, truthful, and overall lovely person, or would you rather they grow up with the idea that the only way they’re going to be successful in life is by sexualizing themselves, just as Rihanna and Beyonce do, every day? The only real problem that you may have with swift is that she is indeed a strong women, and based on this article, you apparently cannot handle that. Get out of the dark ages and realize that being a lovely, wonderful, honest, and respectful woman does not make you a bad role model, and stop trying to color people’s views of her due to a lack of either moral beliefs or intelligence.

By: ama apprentice

ama apprentice — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:16:55 +0000

How? In the way that they DON’T have rich parents paying to start record companies for them to have a label to sing at. That’s how.

By: ama apprentice

ama apprentice — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:41:22 +0000

Valerie-

It’s really contradictory to both praise the writer’s analytical skills, but suggest that she spend them on more “important” subjects, and to also criticize the points she made, while being, analytical on this subject.
So maybe you should take more time and thought before you give constructive criticism, because contradictory expressions just makes you seem like someone that’s not worth listening to.
Also, you keep adding “IMHO”, but you don’t seem to be humble at all, so again, gives me the impression that you’re not worth paying any attention to.

You’re right, there is nothing wrong with fantasy, and the writer isn’t saying that there is. She’s saying that it’s wrong to be touted as miraculous in every facet of musicianship, winning awards and accolades, when really Taylor Swift is just kind of good at escapism.

Taylor Swift is also fake in her fantasy constructs. Unless she has gone through drastic physical changes, there is no way that someone that looks like her was considered the ugly, outsider, freak girl that no guy wanted to date. It’s insulting to try to pretend optherwise. Yes, she probably didn’t get every guy that she longed for, so others can relate, but I’m quite sure she didn’t have continuously devastating, soul-wrenchingly agonizing heartbreaks from boys that went for other girls instead of her solely because they were prettier than she was/is. It’s also ridiculous to believe (and for her to state) that all those guys had girlfriends that didn’t love them nor appreciate them, so unlike how she did. Vilifying others doesn’t make you the hero, but then, she doesn’t want to be the hero, she wants to be the poor victim that is saved when the heroic (for some reason) boy realizes his folly and saves her by loving her back. It’s so childish. One song like that by someone her age is tolerable, but a whole career of that? Ugh, annoying! Her portrayal as a ‘Juliet’ was mind-numbingly bad with the self-imposed victimhood.

When 17 year old Lindsay Lohan waxed sadly to the media (then acted flippantly) about boyfriend lost, it was understandable; but when 20 + something year old Taylor Swift did it (at least two times that I can think of), it just seems pathetic. Grow up already. But I guess if she did, she would be able to write songs with depth, and that’s not her thing. Emotion is great, but never having any direction for it is juvenile and gets boring quickly.

By: Flynt Keckler

Flynt Keckler — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:42:58 +0000

This is the most uneducated article as well as not being well thought out that I have read in a long time. The different points in the article are stupid and can’t be backed up by legitimate arguments. To start off with, there are no guarantees in the music business, and when a musician is given an award, it’s not something that is just given up. To say that Lady Gaga would have given up something that big when it would only help her career is just a lie.
Secondly, to say that her songs are simple because of the lyrics is also way off the mark. For example, the Beach Boys, who are considered to be the greatest band that the United States produced wrote a lot of songs that talked mainly of cars, girls, and surfing. Based off of your article, the beach boys were a very mediocre band as well.
Thirdly, a lot of girls are bullied in high school because of being the same type of outcast that she portrays in her videos. Her music isn’t meant to be dark like others, and is geared toward younger girls, which makes it a suitable choice to just have the glasses as well as the t-shirt.
Fourthly, real musicians don’t just write music just because it will sell. They write it for themselves, and it’s real for them. Just because the lyrics don’t fit your standards doesn’t mean that it’s stupid. It fits what she thinks and believes in, which makes it good music.
And about her not proving to be able to perform live, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys who is perhaps the greatest musical genius this side of Beethoven, was not able to perform live because of the stress. So he quit only a little while into starting into his career. And I have been to many conerts, including: The Beach Boys, the Brian Wilson Band, Styx, Journey, Foreigner, and Night Ranger, and none of them came close to being able to portray as much emotion into their singing as Swift. She wrote something that means something to her, and while she is singing you can really tell she is reliving whatever it is that she is singing about. This was such a bullshit article, and it made me so disgusted that I don’t think I will ever read another one of your articles because of the lack of research or thought.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:10:37 +0000

Is not Lady Gaga’s whole schtick to be sex-provocative for the sake of sexual provocation? Her message is to shock mainstream America, but to shock them into thinking about… what? Sex? We already think about sex — just not about sex with Lady Gaga.

By: Gwyne

Gwyne — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:53:45 +0000

Allow me to correct that sentence before some hack predictably uses it to debase the validity of my entire comment… “Anyone who says that the topic of Taylor Swift is not an “important issue” is an idiot.”