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Am I the only person that doesn't like Taylor Swift?

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drymascara · 20/04/2024 14:04

Her Music I mean.
Seems to be a ginormous following of all age groups! I don't get it, listened to a lot of her Music including the new Album - to me it just sounds like music for Children / Tweens?! What am I missing??

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Wooloohooloo · 21/04/2024 15:04

She's inoffensive enough- no strong feelings either way. She has some catchy songs and seems like a typical pop singer? 🤷🏻‍♀️ 8 year old DD loves her. I like metal/rock so pop isn't really my cup of tea anyway.

Cattenberg · 21/04/2024 13:00

DD and her friends like her, but I couldn’t name a single one of her songs.

OldHabitsDieScreaming · 21/04/2024 11:40

Oh, Better Than Revenge is a great song! I love furious Taylor. Great guitars too.

I don't listen to Speak Now enough really; I tend to veer towards Rep and then all the lockdown albums onwards. Might stick it on the headphones this afternoon (after a couple of hours spent in serious contemplation of TTPD ...)

Ihateboris · 21/04/2024 11:33

Nope, I really don't get the hype. Horses for courses I suppose.

Arrestedmanevolence · 21/04/2024 11:33

My tween isn't interested in the latest album at all. I think it's.not poppy enough. I wish I had two hours to listen to it but I haven't so find it hard to appreciate the lyrics and story behind it all like others seem to.

tabulahrasa · 21/04/2024 11:29

DiaryOfaTTCer · 21/04/2024 10:54

@OldHabitsDieScreaming

So true! I forgot about ME! I know it's not popular with some swifties but I love that song.

Taylor was an emo kid back in 2005 so she's probably been a long term panic and parmore fan.

I also love ME! It’s a fun pop banger, what’s not to like?

Speak now I think veers into that sort of emo kid music, better than revenge and haunted off the top of my head.

Auburngal · 21/04/2024 11:09

I’m not a fan of majority of modern music.

Besides the music made in the 60s-80s is still played today.

Will today’s music be played in 40-60 years time? Seriously doubt it!

OldHabitsDieScreaming · 21/04/2024 11:00

@DiaryOfaTTCer I really hate ME! Drives me up the fucking wall (that and London Boy which I hope never to hear again before I die).

She does make life hard for fans sometimes by releasing dross like that 😂

2mummies1baby · 21/04/2024 10:57

The only song of hers I can name is 'Shake it Off', which I find intensely irritating.

DiaryOfaTTCer · 21/04/2024 10:54

@OldHabitsDieScreaming

So true! I forgot about ME! I know it's not popular with some swifties but I love that song.

Taylor was an emo kid back in 2005 so she's probably been a long term panic and parmore fan.

captureitrememberit · 21/04/2024 10:41

mlc0 · 20/04/2024 22:34

Taylor Swift Stan till the day I die. Loved her for 15 years and will keep on loving her. Been there for me since I was 14 (I am 28 now)

But no, you are not the only one who doesn't like her, loads of people don't and that's ok. I just find it funny everyone always has to announce how much they dislike her, as if trying to prove something 🤣

Me too! All of this Grin

captureitrememberit · 21/04/2024 10:40

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You are disgustingly misogynistic. I don't even know where to begin with this comment. She might be a celebrity, but she's a person too.

PermanentlyTired03 · 21/04/2024 10:38

I really dislike how she releases 10editions of every album them gives everyone acces to the whole lot an hour later. Knowing many of her fans will spend £200 on all the editions with the extra songs. Excellent business model hence the billionaire status but she really rinses her fans. Same can be said for many artists I’m sure though.

OldHabitsDieScreaming · 21/04/2024 10:31

DiaryOfaTTCer · 21/04/2024 10:22

She has a song which paramore feature on and paramore is performing as the supporting artist in the European leg of her tour

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And Brandon Urie from Panic! At The Disco appears on the Lover album and in the Miss Americana documentary.

But being a fan of those two bands is solid-gold proof that you will 'of course' 'hate' TS's music, apparently.

This place is so fucking odd at times.

DiaryOfaTTCer · 21/04/2024 10:22

SpicyMoth · 20/04/2024 18:24

Hate it, but I'm more a Paramore, Panic at the disco fan anyway! So ofc I'd hate it haha 😂

She has a song which paramore feature on and paramore is performing as the supporting artist in the European leg of her tour

DiaryOfaTTCer · 21/04/2024 10:19

DrJoanAllenby · 20/04/2024 17:55

No, far from it. Can't sing, toxic lyrics about all of her boyfriends and satanic stage performances.

Considering how everyone is up in arms about transgender women I can't understand the love for her on here or hasn't the penny dropped?

WTF does Taylor swift have to do with transgender women?

IAmNeverGoingToChangeCareer · 21/04/2024 10:00

I think her music is incredibly bland.

My Daughters love her, and after being subjected to so many songs as a result, I really feel with her like she goes through the motions of selecting a slightly different style in a song from time to time just to be more profitable and try and appeal to more people. It just doesn’t seem genuine to me.

OneTC · 21/04/2024 09:53

It's just more bland pop to me

OldHabitsDieScreaming · 21/04/2024 09:50

She reminds me of a blow up doll

Casual misogyny of the most repulsive kind, directed at someone whose worst crime is to sing songs that are not to your personal taste.

Some of you really are fucking awful people.

CamoPenguin · 21/04/2024 09:17

Her music is very bland, nothing special. However, if she can make money out of it, fair enough. I do think the amounts people are paying to see her are insane and it's not fair to take so much, then again most artists are charging over the odds now.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 21/04/2024 09:11

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She's anything but a 'blow up doll'. In fact I admire her for not appearing to go down the Kardashian/Jenner let's alter our lips and bodies via surgery beyond all recognition route.

It's amazing the stadiums she's selling out multiple nights over by writing her own songs and playing instruments without resorting to the get your tits out shock tactics, no matter if her music is to your taste or not.

Beezknees · 21/04/2024 09:04

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Why does she remind you of a blow up doll? This comment seems misogynistic.

Deborah54 · 21/04/2024 08:52

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Viewfrommyhouse · 21/04/2024 08:52

Not really my thing in general, but I do love Style, great song. I like what I see of her though. She seems pretty strong and cool.

SevenSeasOfRhye · 21/04/2024 08:48

storminabuttercup · 21/04/2024 08:26

Yeah reminds me of the cool kids at school who scoffed at others for being sheep for liking main stream stuff

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At my school you were more likely to be scoffed at if you mentioned a taste for anything other than the mainstream. Fortunately, I liked A-ha, Wet Wet Wet etc. (still do love 80s music) and I kept quiet about listening to my mum's Incredible String Band albums at home. 60s/70s music was very uncool to 80s teenagers, at least at my school; liking it was a social death equivalent to wearing flared jeans.