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/Lightrec Feb 21 '24

This is nothing new - If this was the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna or any other top artist of their time then we'd have the same hysteria. We know all about their lives and dating habits too.

She's not my cup of tea but she's just THAT big.

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u/Freo_5434 Feb 22 '24

If this was the Beatles, Michael Jackson

Those people had real talent .

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u/Lightrec Feb 22 '24

My mother always told me “you know you’re old when the new music sounds crap”. Just saying.

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u/Freo_5434 Feb 22 '24

Thats not what i said . She is a manufactured product . Unlike the Beatles and countless others of that era who rose to prominence based on the talent they showed performing in tough environments like local Clubs

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u/jett1406 Feb 22 '24

what does manufactured mean to you? She’s hardly an industry plant, her songs are genuinely extremely popular

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u/mrr6666 Feb 22 '24

She isn’t manufactured. The Monkees and Sex Pistols were, though.

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u/Lightrec Feb 22 '24

Again, not my cup of tea, but she re-recorded her music over a legal battle on her rights and have to admire that.

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u/pipsqueakbesqueakin Feb 22 '24

Do you think she’s an industry plant or something? Her career is pretty well documented and she didn’t start out on X Factor or something like you’re trying to imply

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u/cinnamonbrook Feb 22 '24

Haha, people were NOT saying that about the Beatles back in the day. The hysteria was looked down on then too, because they were just a boy band.

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u/tumericjesus Feb 22 '24

Yeah she’s not my cup of tea either but you can’t deny she’s a talent pop artist she actually writes her own songs too.

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u/Freo_5434 Feb 22 '24

Of course she does have some talents .