I feel like the main reason why people dislike Taylor Swift is because they believe in that “She only sings about her relationships”¹/“She’s immature”² or something of the sort.
But honestly, ¹ they haven’t listened to most other tracks of hers. People often just listen to popular tracks/‘TikTok’ songs and they come across Blank Space, Shake it Off, Wildest Dreams, or even ME!, Cardigan, etc. Have they ever listened to Afterglow, Daylight, New Year’s Day, Wonderland, Peace, Hoax, Happiness or Coney Island? Probably not. These unappreciated songs also show her maturity ²
Most of the other reasons could simply be that they think she ‘tries to bring others down’ (which is basically the opposite of what actually happened to her)
Like, seriously—it was never her who tried to start a feud with West or Kardashian. Is it that hard so believe?
Or maybe some people are too delusional. Or they dislike her for standing up for herself. Or they don’t want women to get equal rights.
What is there to not like about her? Her maturity, her glowing smile, her writing, her personality!
She baked cookies for her fans (and her father bought pizzas for fans waiting for her Good Morning America interview in the morning), sang to sick children in a hospital, didn't just say she supports the LGBTQIA+ community, but proved it by starting a petition and through her song You Need To Calm Down, but obviously the media found her relationships more interesting than this.
How is her love life anyone else’s matter to gossip about?
These are a few of her beautiful lyrics which show her maturity over the years and how it’s not always the other one who is at blame:
I can't make it go away by making you a villain
I guess it's the price I paid for seven years in Heaven
And I pulled your body into mine
Every goddamn night, now I get fake niceties
No one teaches you what to do
When a good man hurts you
And you know you hurt him too
—happiness
After giving you the best I had
Tell me what to give after that
All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness
You haven't met the new me yet
And I think she'll give you that
—happiness
I blew things out of proportion, now you're blue
Put you in jail for something you didn't do
I pinned your hands behind your back, oh
Thought I had reason to attack, but no
Fighting with a true love is boxing with no gloves
Chemistry 'til it blows up, 'til there's no us
Why'd I have to break what I love so much?
It's on your face, and I'm to blame, I need to say
Hey
It's all me in my head
I'm the one who burned us down
But it's not what I meant
Sorry that I hurt you
I don't wanna do, I don't wanna do this to you
I don't wanna lose, I don't wanna lose this with you
I need to say, hey
It's all me, just don't go
Meet me in the afterglow
—Afterglow
(Honestly, the whole of Afterglow would be more accurate)
There is also the issue of people saying that ‘she goes through men too swiftly’
Now, why would you even say that? Is it your right to judge her actions? How is wearing something that shows your knees a sign of wanting attention from men? Why can’t she wear anything she wants to?
It's not like she’ll find the one at once. Maybe she doesn’t want to settle down. It’s her choice, who are you to decide what she should do?
Now she has been with someone for a long time, and she actually seems happy.
Another admirable trait of hers is that she doesn’t sing anyone else’s songs or let anyone else take credit for her songs.
Every song of hers contains her own writing, and collaboration with her friends or alliances if not so. But she never took credit for something that isn’t hers.
This was not to offend anyone. Just something from my own perspective.
So here goes the question: do you like Taylor Swift? Why?
And as TS very wisely said,
And we see you over there on the internet
Comparing all the girls who are killing it
But we figured you out
We all know now, we all got crowns
You need to calm down
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