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/breeways Feb 22 '24
Life long Swifty here who went to the Eras tour and had the most magical night of his life 🙋🏻♂️
And someone else said it a lot better about how amazing the buzz & vibe was from all the concertgoers. It was like nothing else I’ve ever experienced, and I loved every second of that.
But even I’m absolutely mind-boggled at how insane the media coverage has been, it’s actually really gross.
Yes she is one of the biggest celebrities on the planet whose fan base spans countries, languages, genders, sexualities, generations etc but this has been really uncomfortable to watch tbh.
I don’t even know when it happened - it used to be uncool to like her, then it was cool to like her and now it’s just mad hysteria.
Don’t get me wrong, I love how successful she has become (considering where she started) but the live TS blog from the Guardian, the live coverage of Kelce touching down, the mania around which places she visits while in AUS… it’s just absurd.
She’s a human being ffs just let her have some downtime, find something else to report on.
I don’t actively watch TV, listen to radio or read the news so I have probably avoided most of it but what I have seen/heard/read has been gross and I wish I could explain it for you but I can’t because it’s just perplexing.