r/melbourne • u/Diqt • Feb 21 '24

Light and Fluffy News Taylah Sweeeft

Hopefully this doesn't get deleted because I sure as hell can't post anywhere else about her unless it's mindnumbing blind agreement with everyone else.

Anyway I just saw live coverage of her NFL boyfriend landing in Sydney. Professional journalists who have interviewed our country's leaders are watching his plane land. Sitting around talking about it. This is live news.

This goes WAY beyond enjoying her music. I don't know what this is anymore. It felt like as a society we were moving away from celebrity worship. This has lost touch of reality. What's weird is everyone going along with it? I feel like I'm in a movie where everyone gets infected and I'm going to be the last person alive. Movie ends with me dancing mindlessly to Shake it Off, my eyeballs completely white. Roll credits.

Maybe a Swifty can explain this phenomenon to me because this level of worship would be ridiculed for just about any other celebrity. I didn't even know Pink and Blink 182 were here too, they've gotten so little media coverage.

EDIT: Thanks mods for not deleting this. Third different sub I tried. Happy that the Melbourne sub allows some discussion! Saving me from any Donald Sutherland in Body Snatchers assumptions.

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u/greywarden133 >love a good bargain< Feb 21 '24

QOTSA was here on Monday too didn't you know? Gezz

On the other note: it is a big deal for Taylor's concert to be held here as it brought in heaps of money and lots of people (apprx 288,000) had a great time at her concert. Also I didn't see anyone peeing around after the show so that's a plus too.

Not defending Taylor Swift in any shape or form but her show was fucking incredible. 45 songs in almost 4hrs of runtime with almost no interval - even with backtracking it was still impressive. So give her a break and go to enjoy Pink or Blink 182 concert at your own leisure mate!

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u/Diqt Feb 21 '24

Alright the first good point made, thank you. the 288k number is pretty astounding. That might be the only thing I can point to in relation to this country's current obsession.

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u/mr-snrub- Feb 21 '24

Ed Sheeran had ~220k for his two shows last year and there was nowhere near the same level of hysteria

Taylor Swift is a cult.

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u/AnnoyedOwlbear Feb 21 '24

Meh, I was forced to watch reporting on Beetlemania in a journalistic class a while back. Things like this have been happening as long as we've had media around.

Cultwise, there's still people who think Elvis is coming back...

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u/mr-snrub- Feb 21 '24

But it was easier to get away from it then. You could just not turn on the radio or tv and stop reading the paper.

Now you can't even wait for a train without the platform screaming at you about what her bf's dad thinks

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '24

Yeah plus the Beatles were actually controversial. The older generation viewed them as sinful hard rock music back then. You wouldn't call Taylor different or controversial