To think: Enough with Taylor Swift, the boyfriend, the Superbowl and the beer all over the news!!

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Every news report, every newspaper that I've seen all have about TS and her kissing her 'winning' boyfriend (who doesn't seem that nice) at the Superbowl

There are many, MANY more important things to hear/read about than this.

It has been headline news across all newspapers.

It is headline news across every newspaper.

Haven't got a clue what you're talking about

The only thing that has been annoying me about it today, and I end up on a lot of news sites because of my job, is that I can’t decide if he’s hot or not. Is he hot under that beard? Or just big?

(As a disclaimer, I do read and think about other stuff too…)

Definitely hot. And 6'5"!

His brother's not bad either. 😍

The only thing that has been annoying me about it today, and I end up on a lot of news sites because of my job, is that I can’t decide if he’s hot or not. Is he hot under that beard? Or just big?

(As a disclaimer, I do read and think about other stuff too…)

Ha. That made me laugh @Shf. Google ‘Travis Kelce without beard’, lots of images to help you decide. 🤣

I like him with a moustache and no beard. 😅

I think people who say this is news that has passed them by do not really follow the news....it is every where. I listen to 5live (for news not sport) which is the leading BBC news outlet and it was pretty prevalent. Certainly covered in the Guardian and by the BBC and in my news feeds.

He looks like the main character in a steamy romance novel.

It really hasn’t on BBC 6 music, R4 or Times radio

I did hear the other news for today though

Uber drivers, Labour MP, water co bonus, Rafah, NATO just from memory

No Swift here until this thread

I must be living under the aforementioned rock…

One picture would have been enough, surely. The coverage is out of all proportion - and that's not even in the tabloid titles, it's in apparently 'grown up' titles.

They’re the new Posh and Becks. Remember when they garnered wall to wall coverage?

Surely Kylie Minogue is the Kylie Minogue of our time. She's still around you know.

I wasn't aware of any of this until you drew attention to it 😅

Boyfriend doesn't seem nice / He's a big bloke

seems to me it's the OP that doesn't seem nice.

This. I knew nothing about it.

She's definitely massively overexposed now though (Phil Collins had this) and there will come a backlash. She's a pleasant enough girl with a so so voice and cheesy songs co-written with her team of songwriters that cater to a young, predominantly white female demographic.

another zeno
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_American_Football_Association

Nonsense. Posh and Becks were equally famous, and both are global.

Swift is the big name here (sidenote, the half time show is also bigger than the game). Gridiron is a niche sport w/ 95% of the TV audience coming from North America. After he signed for them, Messi's MLS team (Miami something, really a minnow in the sport) has more social media followers than any Gridiron team.

Look at the page views for sports teams on Wikipedia (and this is just for the English language wikipedia, including all languages the gulf in views would be even more vast).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages#Sport_teams

Swift is probably the biggest name in pop culture right now, certainly for the last 18 months when her current tour kicked off as really she wasn't among the biggest names in current music prior to that (her sales still aren't at Adele/Sheeran level though). Anything attached to her is news.. the backlash with her overexposure is inevitable though.

I read newspapers but nothing celebrity, meeja etc., I listen to the radio, Radio 4, I do surprisingly go outside. Is she's 'touring'? Whacko, I had no idea nor interest, if I saw a poster it's not something I would take any notice of.
I do love the inverted snobbery when one isn't manacled to pop 'culture', were someone to sneer because another poster knew nothing about a non pop 'culture' event the reaction would have been dire!

Welcome! We rock-dwellers need t-shirts.

It annoys me when people call Taylor Swift a bland pop star "of the moment". She's been releasing music for 18 years. 18! 2 years longer than Adele.

Honestly I think one of the worst things she did for herself was release Shake it Off as a lead single, because it's her only song that sounds like that and yet that's what people point to. Her lockdown albums are masterpieces.

It annoys me when people call Taylor Swift a bland pop star "of the moment". She's been releasing music for 18 years.

It's just a way to denigrate a woman - a particularly easy target because most of her fans are women or girls too. She must be bland / fake / boring / whatever. Hundreds of millions of people are clearly wrong and she's actually crap

I still love an album of hers I bought more than 10 years ago.

Yes, there was a lovely thread where she was referred to as a "product" the other day.

And yet this is the first I have heard of it.