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Riese’s Team Pick: Taylor Swift Is Always Surprised

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Nov 18, 2010
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I never want to talk about Taylor Swift ever again for the rest of my life ever. Buttt then my favorite blogger fourfour made this video and I thought you might enjoy it.

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Riese is the co-founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker and LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York, and now lives in Los Angeles. Follow her on twitter and instagram.

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  • Nicole S
    November 18, 2010 at 8:48 pm

    does she know shes famous?

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  • Marika
    November 18, 2010 at 9:11 pm

    I think Taylor Swift’s music is trite and immature.

    But I sing along to it and every time I see her I just want to hug her.

    Is that weird?

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    • Artemis
      November 22, 2011 at 9:49 am

      I understand you completely. I just can’t dislike her she’s so cute…(I believe I might have a crush on her.)

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  • Nathalie
    November 18, 2010 at 9:13 pm

    omg riese we have the same favorite blogger!!

    i love rich and his antm recaps and his music commentary and his winston

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  • Dani
    November 18, 2010 at 9:49 pm

    this made me chuckle, but i could only watch half of it.

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    • Leavens
      November 19, 2010 at 12:13 pm

      I got through maybe the first thirty seconds, so you did better than me. I wonder if she’s been coached in that particular surprise face.

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      • Dani
        November 19, 2010 at 1:19 pm

        IT’S THE SAME FACE! All the instances started blurring together plus they were playing her music which makes sense, because she was winning stuff, but I couldn’t handle all of it.

        Not liking Taylor Swift makes me feel like a bad person. Almost like I’m hating on a puppy, but I just can’t.

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      • Leavens
        November 19, 2010 at 4:25 pm

        I kept waiting for some kind of variation on the theme, and it just didn’t happen.

        I don’t particularly like her either, but I don’t think we’re bad people. Just because you don’t want the puppy in your house doesn’t mean someone should call the ASPCA, you know?

        I’m half waiting for this thread to explode with the vitriol of rabid TSwift fans. Really hoping that doesn’t happen.

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      • Riese
        November 19, 2010 at 6:10 pm

        I think they already got their rocks of here.

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      • Leavens
        November 19, 2010 at 9:30 pm

        Sometimes when a particularly disheartening piece of news comes through AS, I go back to that page for a laugh.

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  • Nicole S
    November 18, 2010 at 11:20 pm

    Does She know she is famous?

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  • mister piddles
    November 18, 2010 at 11:29 pm

    i just wanna say, t-swift, gives the best bj faces EVER. i wonder why, i mean, whhhaaaaaaaaat?!?!

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  • Turkish
    November 18, 2010 at 11:54 pm

    I saw this clip a few days ago and it still never gets old.

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  • Rachel H
    November 19, 2010 at 1:09 am

    My other favorite Taylor Swift video: http://lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.tumblr.com/post/1409181129

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  • Azzy
    November 19, 2010 at 2:50 am

    The video isn’t working for me :(

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    • Emily
      November 19, 2010 at 6:50 pm

      ME NEITHER AND I’M SO UPSET

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  • Mix
    November 19, 2010 at 12:09 pm

    WHAT?!

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  • LezGeek
    November 19, 2010 at 1:43 pm

    Could only watch about 30 seconds…there’s no way I could slog through all that sticky sweet fake emotion and pretend ditziness for 3 minutes…

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    • MsNJS
      November 19, 2010 at 3:46 pm

      I lasted for a minute. Ugh… Although if you made a video of my reaction to Taylor Swift you would see my eyes rolling every time. She is just so ridiculously overrated and undeserving I feel bad for all of her peers.

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  • theHoodieEnthusiast
    November 19, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    Setting aside all the Post-Twilight Anti-Feminism-as-Feminism Ur-Doin-It-Wrong Stuff, just trying to objectively assess her as a Pop-Country Musician…I just can’t figure out what the big deal is. I’m not even saying, like, she’s mediocre compared to Radiohead or Morissey or Ani or Metallica or whatever, I’m saying social commentary aside, Miley Cyrus makes more compelling music than Taylor Swift. By a small margin, but still.
    Maybe Taylor is aware of how mediocre she is.
    Maybe that’s why she’s so surprised. o_o

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  • Kai
    November 20, 2010 at 12:07 am

    “What?!” Let stick a lollipop in there. Or maybe a sausage to fill that wide open void. “OMG. Ahhh! You guys love me? This can’t be real!” Really, Swifty, every one is just as surprised as you, because most people don’t get recognized for being tone deaf and lame. It’s like affirmative action for the wholesome white girl who sings about nonsense because no one else is shameless enough to do that.

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  • via
    November 20, 2010 at 1:46 am

    robot.

    gross.

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  • Michele
    December 7, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    Those reactions would be fine if she was still brand new to success. It’s also important to remain thankful and not start feeling entitled to awards. However, she’s been acting “surprised” in the exact same way for years now. It’s so fake.

    BTW, when her new album came out and there was a track called “Better Than Revenge” I actually got excited. I thought maybe, even just once, she’d show maturity and growth, but no. It’s the same old childish, hypocritical double standards and female competition. I made this video to vent my frustrations:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q0tQq4ryqQ

    I find it ironic that this glorification of mean girl gossip tactics is on the same album as the feel-sorry-for-me-because-someone-said-something-not-nice-about-me track “Mean.”

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