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/littleb3anpole Feb 21 '24

It’s weird. And it’s hard to ignore when, like you said, it creeps into every other facet of news. I don’t listen to Beyoncé or Harry Styles or Dua Lipa but I can ignore them by simply not seeking out content about them. But when the actual news is covering “singer’s boyfriend’s plane arrives” or sporting events are spending endless time discussing the famous girlfriend of a player? Mate.

Nobody who isn’t into the kind of music I like could tell you one detail of the personal lives of the musicians. Yet I know Taylor Swift’s dating history.

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u/RedDotLot Feb 22 '24

Beyoncé

I guarantee you if Beyoncé plays here any time soon the hype will be as extreme. Particularly after her latest release; the country album is what people have been hankering after from her and I think it's likely to expand her appeal. As to her relationship, it's been fairly stable for years but even the indiscretions made their way into the music.

Where Taylor Swift is concerned, it's worth remembering a couple of things, firstly, she hasn't actually toured since 2018 (she was supposed to tour in 2020 but COVID happened), and she's released 4 new albums and 4 re-records with additional tracks since then. I honestly don't know what her profile would be like if it hadn't been for the pandemic because we may not have got folklore and evermore, which massively expanded her appeal beyond pop fans and the og country fanbase, and she capitalised on that broader appeal with the release of Midnights. Secondly, her dating history has always been inextricably linked to her musical output, so entertainment reporters are always going to cover it because it will inevitably end up as album fodder at some point. Just my two-cents anyway.