To think that Taylor Swift is a good role model for girls.

[peanutbutterFlapjack]

Her new music video has no sex references, butts or twerking. She has a class that Nicki Garbage, Miley Virus and Kim Kartrashian lack.

Ridiculously pretty so not a good benchmark for average attractiveness.
Not a surgeon, engineer, teacher, hairdresser, or anything particularly useful.
A musician is a valid job but really this one is hardly encouraging children to play the piano.
I like role models who don't look beautiful 24/7 and but who do have an understanding of the real world and contribute something to society.
We cannot all be like that but as a role model I expect more.

I can't bear her, I genuinely feel that her sickly sweet image is so so fake. Every now and again the mask slips and you see her true nasty self and her PR team are left scurrying around trying to minimise as with the Minaj and Katy incidents.

And being a professional beard is hardly a good role model for young girls

Having a crafted image is part and parcel of life in the public arena.

What's important is that TS is involved in the craft. Unlike a million other young women in the entertainment industry to simply have to do what the men in suits tell them to do.

She writes all of her songs (a huge amount of them solo too), plays musical instruments, gives to charity, cares about her fans and she can laugh at herself. There's a lot worse hanging around the industry at the moment.

I love Swifty and I mostly hate everyone

I think you can like or admire certain aspects of a person and their achievements while acknowleding the more twatty parts of their personality.

I respect how Dr Dre built a business empire but I don't respect him due to his misogyny, for example.

Yes, given that she's right in the middle of the kind of things girls are into then yes she's ok. If I could choose a (living) role model for my DDs it would be Jessica Ennis Hill, Paula Radcliffe and Mary Beard but in lieu of that Taylor will do!

Though I do think the image is 90% marketing but I admire that too.

Don't really think that someone who mocks other women's alleged lack of virtue by (terribly and not funnily) altering their surnames is the best person to be evaluating what is 'classy' personally, OP.

EddieStobbart God I do love a bit of Mary Beard.

Yanvu.

Her last video was about shooting and war. She is probabaky really fake and as others said the ultimate mean girl. She's been groomed for stardom since she was 9.

Miley is a much better and realistic role model.

Gosh, if DDs had to have a performer as a role model, I would rather it be someone like Amanda Palmer. But Taylor Swift does write some catchy tunes.

The video that the op posted is being called racist due to it being an “African colonial fantasy”, make what you will of that.

well, she has and continues to help some famous men remain deeply closeted and free from persecution.
does that make her a good role model?

Mary Beard indeed.

Couldn't agree more XiCi. My own personal take is that her whole image is contrived and unconvincing, her music is superficial and she lacks any warmth. Whilst I can apprdciate or admire a strong work ethic, she's hardly saving the world one lyric at a time.