AIBU to think Taylor Swift is being carefully repositioned and we’re not meant to notice?

She’s the best singer songwriter of all time imo

Sorry... Now she's 'stringing her fans along'.
What does that even mean?

She is a good songwriter, but there are equally talented if not more so, others for example Sara Bareilles (much superior musically), who are not even a quarter as famous as Swift. I think swift has been very clever in playing social media and the "friends with my fans" thing, and managed to string them along for many years!

Big Swiftie.here, you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about! Stop judging other women you're probably jealous of and concentrate on your own life @MidnightTheory

Big time Swiftie here 🙋‍♀️

I think the last election shows that celebrity endorsements (and celebrity politics in general) can really backfire. TS endorsed Kamala Harris and that did not help KH at all. If anything it gave her detractors ammunition. If I was TS I would rethink political statements in the current climate.

I think she and Travis Kelce are both liberal.

What’s the point of posts like these? You’re on a social media forum that is all about focusing on other people’s lives. Why would anybody take this advice when you’re not taking it yourself?

Taylor Who?

Probably just maturing, I’d focus on your life!!

She is growing older…maybe she doesn’t feel the need to be loud as she is established 👀

Sorry, to clarify, I meant the whole album

Because she is an incredibly talented song writer. There’s a reason so many people want to work with her.

And what do her looks have to do with anything?? Does she have to be gorgeous to be a singer/songwriter writer?

But also she’s a tall, thin, pretty girl. Not sure where you live but I’m in Canada and she’s in no way average. I’ve been all over the world as a model and she would easily fit in with us.

He isn't.

I suppose she did kinda lean into the independent woman narrative, but can anyone realistically keep that image forever?

Er, yes, they can. Both in real life and celebrity (Katharine Hepburn would be an example). Marriage and children are not the inevitable endgame. However I think it’s always been pretty clear they are things that Taylor wants for herself, and fair enough.

There are cultural elements here that very normal to Americans and not to Brits. This post is a non post seen through that lens.

I really like the song Lover but I assumed it was slightly tongue in cheek/ lighthearted

Missed this one sorry, thank you, yes that is the issue and I agree having followed her for absolutely years is it a new direction. It would be fine if its just me but I have a 10 year old who idiolises her and she was so rare in the popular music world not to have gone in this direction before. Taylor Swift obviously owes me nothing but I am a bit disappointed in it clearly.

I literally shared my opinion of the photo. I have no idea what you're taking about , saying I keep telling you you're not allowed your opinion. So odd. You make a mic-drop comment like that, and when I ask you to provide more than one example of where I "keep" telling you that you're not allowed your opinion, you say it's boring.

Weirdo. Go and pick on someone else.

No I don't, lets leave this now its getting a bit boring.

Yes she has had many original, honest and massively creative eras, still think the country era is a massive influence in her voice at times.

Eh? Where did I tell you that you're not allowed to have that opinion? And where did I do that more than once? I shared my opinion of the photo. That's literally it. Don't get your knickers in such a twist. As for bananas and lolly pop etc, are you talking about Swift? And I don't know what you mean about taking out all the innocent shush poses. Sure, the photo is a bit sexy. I just didn't have the same reaction to it as another poster, who seemed pretty shocked.

I keep telling you that you are not allowed your opinion of the photo! 😂 Wherever did you get that from! Me saying that I saw the photo as sardonic is not me telling you that you're not allowed your opinion! Do you usually have this much trouble with people having different opinions from you?

She used to be a country singer!

She just loves her family, that's all. She's a Democrat and supports a woman's right to choose. I don't think she has promoted traditional family values at all. In America, that means submitting to your husband in all things and being anti-choice and all that jazz, and I don't think she's like that AT ALL. She wouldn't be so ambitious if she was, and she'd have five kids by now.

She refused to endorse Obama because she was trying not be unduly influential, as she made clear when she eventually endorsed Kamala.

As for your third paragraph, WTF? I am sure she has never done anything like this.

I saw precisely zero political rhetoric on Miss Americana.

I totally trust her politics. She's a left-leaning Democrat. She turned off the surge pricing for her concerts so that people of less means could go, instead of making more money, she has a very diverse cast on the stage, she pays their health insurance and gives all staff generous bonuses, she donates large amounts to charity, she endorsed Kamala....and yet you STILL think she leans right and don't trust her politics!

Some people simply cannot and will not believe that TS is a good person and a Democrat. It's all sexism and jealousy, imo.

No I was a small time regular model but still know that fingers in mouth is on the sexier end. I am not sure how many more ways it can be explained that a woman posing with her fingers in her mouth is a bit sexy. Maybe you should google it, take out all the innocent shush poses and work it out for yourself. Lolly pops, bunches, back shots, most eating especially bananas, combined with significant nudes is sexy and not necessarily empowered. If you google showgirl you will see it has been done many many many times. Jamie lee Courtis dancing to Total Eclipse of the Heart in last years Showgirl film by another artist on the same subject being the best in decades. I get that you don't respond to the pic the same way, that is fine. Don't keep telling me I am not allowed to have that opinion please.

Strangely invested in this thread despite very low levels of TS knowledge.

I’m not that bothered about her politics tbh

Her songs are quite fun for me - I’m not sure if it’s an ND thing but she uses alot of metaphors in her songs and I like listening to them as though they’re to be taken literally! Probably just me 😂

Edit - sorry I didn’t mean to quote that poster!