#i'm a taylor fan but this is just so not about her

[woman-respecter]

adjacent to the chappellcourse, but...everyone is in such a hurry to call everyone the new taylor, better than taylor, w/e, and it's fascinating to me as someone who works in music b/c the very naked reality is that literally no one even approaches her. i'm not even a huge swiftie, but it's impossible to be professional and pretend literally any of the usual suspects people want to overtake her are in her league. her songwriting is SO varied at this point, on a level very few artists ever get to, and so consistently successful (not always synonymous with "excellent," but in many cases, yeah, it's because she turns out excellent songs). she exclusively directs herself at this point. fans aren't even 100% aware of how involved she is in her business and art direction at this point, but it's infamous in the field. she does EVERYTHING in her career and she does it really, really well. it's so bizarre for me to be on stan social media now, where people act like a 25-year-old who's been big for a season has crushed her, because there's just very accepted consensus in my corner of the industry now that her only real peers are, like, paul mccartney. she could do literally nothing else for the rest of her career and die a god.

REAL AND TRUE. i really think these people just want to act like taylor has been “taken down” bc they hate her and it makes them feel good. she’s actually a once in a generation superstar and they can die mad about it :)

[killjoygem]

Someone was very unhappy about me saying there's no such thing as an ethical billionaire 🤭

[maddy-ferguson]

i can't believe we have gay sabrina truthers now that's how you know she's really made it

[djarinova]

from an article titled "I’m a Swiftie, but the staggering size of the Eras tour has left me feeling alienated"

girl im not sure you are a swiftie if you're saying the anthology is full of forgettable songs...

[cowboylikedean]

the cynical part of me is exhausted by how much money has been made on the taylor-travis thing and its just hard for any of it to feel real and genuine to me rn

[whiskeyswifty]

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[msjynerso]

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[thekidsare-not-alright]

I have mistakenly scrolled through the fob tag (usually I am not this disappointed tbh) and I must be missing half the conversation because there are so many posts defending the tswift collab but like... without knowing what potential problems people actually have about it

"the fob fanbase is scared of the tswift fanbase" what "they've been friends for years" who is saying this stuff

[imaharrie]

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[eliseliedl]

my disappointment is immeasureable

[sallysetoncore]

sorry i have to put my hater hat on again. i fucking hate it when the response to "i do not like taylor swift" is a "you don't have to like her" (i know) "but you have to admit xyz". no the fuCK i do not!

"you have to admit her lyrics are good" im not going to lie to you like that. i do not believe this. i believe a broken clock is right twice a day and that "you're on your own kid" was written about me specifically but um. no! actually! i do not think her lyrics are good and if she rhymes "bar" with "car" one more time, there should be a divine consequence.

"you have to admit that the rerecords is such a good move/feminist/the dollar bill is so cool" no i also do not believe this actually. i think she's a greedy billionaire white woman who has figured out how to continue creating a ton of money and buzz/relevance in the public and that she has enough people buying into it that she can release the same fucking album with like five new tracks and it sells billions instantly, entirely regardless of quality. i think she is actually antifeminist because she keeps releasing deluxes and bonuses and remix bullshits intentionally at the same time that other artists (particularly womennnnn) release their albums that threaten her stardom in any capacity (SEE: BRAT!!!).

"you have to admit she performs well" she performs like a teenage girl in her bedroom which is fine but like. okay. i'm certainly not going into credit card debt for it.

and like if you tell me i "have to" believe or admit something. you are actually COMPELLING me to believe the opposite, regardless of if i did before or not. i think the friendship bracelets are cute. but i credit ravers with that so. i don't think i have to admit anything. i don't think she needs anything from me. and i don't want to give her anything. she has enough.

[yamujiburo]

A few months ago, some of you might know if you keep up with this blog, I went to Collect-A-Con LA. It was truly on a whim. Literally the day before my girlfriend and I had just come back from our Europe trip. Normally I'd be so tired and jetlagged but for some reason I was feeling really antsy and energized and just needed to go somewhere and get out of the house.

I found out that Collect-A-Con LA was happening the following day and that a lot of the original Pokemon voice cast would be there. So I bought a ticket, drew/printed up a picture that I wanted to get signed and got up early to drive to the convention center (you have to understand that I hate driving in town and also very much never wake up early). I don't know what possessed me to do this but I'm so glad I did.

I ended up having the privilege of meeting Eric Stuart, Veronica Taylor and of course, Rachael Lillis.

She was masked up, looked tired, and a bit sick. And at the time, I assumed she might've caught a cold over the weekend of the con. I went to her table and she still smiled and gave me all of her attention and time. I paid her assistant for an autograph, gave Rachael the drawing I'd done and she got to signing it. Her assistant said the print I had was cute and asked where I got it. I told her that I drew it myself and that I spent a LOT of my time drawing Team Rocket and other various Pokemon fanart. When I said that, Rachel stopped mid-sign and looked up and squinted at me and asked "are you Kiana Mai"? My heart skipped. I had no idea she knew who I was and was surprised that, given how many Pokemon fanartists there are in the world, she was able to pick me out. I left that interaction so happy and felt so seen. Soon after, I went to get my print signed by Veronica Taylor and while in her line, noticed Rachael had left her table; presumably not feeling well and had to leave the con early. I remember thinking how lucky I was to catch her before she left.

A couple months later, I saw the gofundme that her sister posted, detailing what Rachel was going through for the past few years and her battle with cancer. It put that convention day in such a different perspective for me.

All I could think about was how much she cared about her fans and how in touch with her community she was to go to a convention while being in so much pain and suffering in silence. I obviously don't know her personally, but based on how other fans who've met her, as well as her colleagues have spoken about her, I got the impression that she was an amazing, thoughtful person who cared about the people around her. That was only solidified for me based on this singular interaction a few months ago.

Rest in Peace Rachael Lillis. You've touched so many lives with your voice and so much of us grew up listening you. Thank you for everything!

[autumnrory]

oh my goooood i made a buch of tweets complaining about swifties yesterday and someone followed me who is clearly a taylor hater like disliking swifties and disliking taylor are completely different things most big artists have completely shitty fanbases i'm just more inclined to complain about taylor's bc i'm in it every day but anyway their pinned tweet is responding to someone talking shit about karlie being a zionist (idk that you can actually call her that because people love throwing around that word a lot but whatever) like "oh your is horrible in all these ways but karlie's the problem??" like karlie has actually made pro-israel comments like i have no idea what, if anything she's said in more recent months so mayhaps this person is also pro-israel lol i haven't ventured that far but the tweet they liked was simply me refuting karlie being in the nosebleeds at eras tour and saying she wouldn't have come if she and taylor were really enemies so i guess karlie is the reason they followed me but uh maybe you can't tell my @ is a taylor song but you can clearly see my header is a photo of taylor and niall so. this is not an account for you pal!

[girlitfeelsgood]

y'all are kinda pissing me off rn ngl

[bemusedlybespectacled]

proposing what I'm going to call Gaylor's Razor, which is: never explain normal shit as being part of a secret message that can only be decoded by over-analysis.

"These Taylor Swift lyrics are actually coded messages saying that she's a lesbian and is forced to stay in the closet! Any lyrics that are clearly about being attracted to a man are just to throw us off the scent!" Sometimes people, like Taylor Swift, are straight and write about being straight, because they are straight.

"The fourth series of Sherlock was deliberately bad because it was actually a coded message to us fans that there is a secret fourth episode that will make Johnlock canon and will actually be good!" Sometimes writers (even experienced writers who are normally good at their jobs) will write something that's not good, because no one is perfect. They're not going to waste everyone's time and money and energy creating something terrible on purpose as part of a grand master plan.

"Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the Canadian Olympic ice dancers, are secretly married (with kids)! Their public relationships with people who are not each other and them repeatedly saying 'we dated as kids and now we're just friends' are just to hide the truth! Which they need to hide for some reason! Their relationship is obvious just from their physical chemistry when competing! JUST LOOK AT THIS TWO SECOND CLIP OF HIM BLINKING AT HER!" It seems counterproductive to put all that thought into hiding a relationship that doesn't need to be hidden but then also telegraph that same relationship in front of millions of people through planned choreography.

"But BB, what about times that people really are speaking in code or hiding something due to outside influences?"

If it requires huge leaps in logic, like adding all the letters in a sentence together and dividing by seventeen and that number matches the binary sequence for the color yellow so YELLOW MUST BE SIGNIFICANT, it's not a secret code.

If it requires focusing on teeny tiny details but discards huge ones, like analyzing someone's micro-expressions but handwaving away what the person is actually saying out loud with their mouth, or focusing on one specific line instead of the entire scene or song or whatever, it's not a secret code.

If both supporting and contradictory evidence are used to come to the same conclusion (ex: when Taylor says something that I interpret as gay, that means she's gay, and when she says something that I interpret as straight, that still means she's gay and just hiding it), it's not a secret code.

Trying to apply fandom meta analysis techniques to real life is a really good way of fall into conspiratorial thinking that can be easily exploited. You can totally try to predict what's going to happen in a story or choose to interpret a scene in a specific way; you can't do that in real life with real people. That way lies the kind of nonsense that leads to shit like "this image of pizza on a children's toy is actually subliminal messaging by The Cabal™ that proves that Pizzagate is real."

[whiskeyswifty]

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