Tag: Taylor Swift
Miley Cyrus’ “Slide Away” Builds On The Unignorable Trend of Female Pop Singers Having A Monopoly on Heartache
It seems as though an eternity has passed since Justin Timberlake came out with the jilted from the male perspective anthem that was 2002’s “Cry [Read More…]
Move Over Robin Hood, Taylor Swift Hits The Emotionalism Target: “The Archer”
After a more than hackneyed attempt at being an LGBTQ ally by trying to reduce right-wing hate with the simple (and somehow more anger-inducing) “request,” [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Again Can’t Calm Down on Making Being Gay About Her in Video for “You Need to Calm Down”
The assumption that, “If Katy Perry and Taylor Swift can make peace with one another, so, too, can gays and homophobes” is the crux of [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Says “You Need To Calm Down,” Can’t Seem To With Her Political Shtick–And It Is a Shtick
Being political tends to come early on in one’s career if he or she is genuine about it. It happened with Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Frenchifies “Cute But Psycho But Cute” For “ME!” and It’s Not Mignon
Like “former” nemesis before her, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift’s latest “effort” brings to mind the image of Perry in the pastel-saturated, filled with “irony” video [Read More…]
You Mean All This Time Taylor Swift Could Have Caused The Orange One to Lose the Presidency?
In a rare moment of choosing to pick a political side of the spectrum (the only other palpably observable time being when she decided to [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Seems to Strategically Have Chosen When to “Get Political” Post-Kanye Body Snatching/MAGA Hat Wearing
Taylor Swift, notoriously mum on all matters pertaining to politics as a result of her solid Christian fanbase (it goes hand in hand with the [Read More…]
Taylor Swift Wants to Continue Down the Path of Relatability With A Blooper Reel
Considering that 90s era cheese factor is all the rage when wielded ironically (as it is for the season four trailer of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), [Read More…]
The “Delicate” Video Channels Britney In Her Barefoot Gas Station Phase More Than Her “Lucky” One–With a Dash of “Drowned World/Substitute For Love” Thrown In
Every musician/celebrity reaches that point in their career where they wonder if, as Madonna once said on the first bookend to Ray of Light, they “traded [Read More…]
Whether Miami, Tokyo or London, Taylor Swift’s “End Game” Video Is An Attempt to Channel “Carefreeness”
As Taylor Swift continues to retool her “reputation” to her advantage by becoming more of a bad girl, it seems the video for “End Game” [Read More…]
