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/wowiee_zowiee Buddhist Socialist Feb 21 '24

People pissed themselves when The Beatles arrived in Australia, people cried in the streets when Kurt Cobain died.

I don’t understand why this is a shock to anyone. People feel connected to musicians. Like she’s literally the biggest musician in the world and the amount of people going “yeah well I don’t listen to her so I don’t get it”. Like come on dude.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '24

Yeah but the Beatles were considered groundbreaking controversial hard rock like devils music back then. Then grunge was new, nirvana was basically Beatles songs but all in minor chords and drop D and stuff. Kurt himself said his main inspiration was the Beatles.

So it's a bit hard to compare Taylor swift cause she's not doing anything unique. Even the spice girls had more uniqueness by incorporating really jazzy sounds and stuff that wasn't popular at the time.

Plus they were all bands.

I understand why people like Taylor swift just not the scale of the obsession.

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u/Asleep_Leopard182 Feb 22 '24

She is doing something unique though - she's working to re-record all of her song bank, in spite of large (and heavily influential) pressure to not do so. Moreso, she's calling out the Music Industry on their poor tactics.

Look at the evolution of her sound, then ask yourself why that may be the case. There's full documentation available (due to T's influence and advocacy) as to why that is the case. This is why her new albums are such a "big deal" for both swifties & the music industry. Her changes reflect her efforts, and the changes she's pushed for.