{"id":63952,"date":"2025-10-07T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/63952\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:37:08","slug":"whos-talking-trash-about-taylor-swift-nearly-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/63952\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s talking trash about Taylor Swift? Nearly everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Even the most die-hard Taylor Swift fan is being tested right now. The fandom is facing all kinds of harsh realities and online scorn, from Swift\u2019s absolutely mercenary levels of multiple <\/a>and expensive versions of physical media to a meh song <\/a>that seems to be about her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, being a sexual powerhouse. And then there\u2019s the reviews.\n <\/p>\n

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‘Oh my lord’: Taylor Swift’s engagement ring stuns Jimmy Fallon<\/p>\n

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\n Fans are also forced to confront the new album might not be great. Not all of her albums have been received rapturously upon release \u2014 2024\u2019s \u201cThe Tortured Poets Department\u201d received cruel to lukewarm reviews at its outset. This time people are saying it loudly.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d is a 5.9, says<\/a> Pitchfork, adding \u201cher music\u2019s never been less compelling.\u201d \u201cWhile Swift\u2019s life is extraordinary, it\u2019s also cloistered by wealth and celebrity; perhaps the range of feelings she\u2019s allowed to experience has become circumscribed,\u201d says<\/a> the New Yorker. Sure, it\u2019s some of her best work \u2014 \u201cand some of her cringiest,\u201d notes Business Insider.<\/a> \u201cClassically designed pop tracks, with standard verse-chorus arrangements and rarely exceeding four minutes in run time,\u201d deadpanned<\/a> Billboard. The album is a \u201cmore enjoyable listen if you don\u2019t take Taylor Swift \u2014 the artist, the persona, the person \u2014 so seriously,\u201d cautions<\/a> Teen Vogue. \u201cIs this really the same artist that gave us Folklore and Evermore?\u201d one-starred<\/a> The Standard.\n <\/p>\n

if taylor swift wrote these lyrics that\u2019s really bad. if chatgpt did it, that\u2019s REALLY really bad. but if travis did it? i\u2019m kinda proud of him<\/p>\n

\u2014 meredith \ud83c\udf49 (@dietz_meredith) October 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\n People seem to dislike the material for all kinds of reasons. Probably some of them just don\u2019t want her to be happy! But: A song, hilariously called \u201cCANCELLED!\u201d that is kind of about how hard it is to be famous, is a tough pill to swallow. There is, underlying all this, also some concern among her fans that she is engaged to a man who says he \u201ccan\u2019t really read that well.\u201d<\/a> He haunts the album, like when we see her flailing with trying to do sexy material, which comes off especially flat in the era of Sabrina Carpenter \u2014 not to pit women artists against each other! Although, also it looks like<\/a> Swift is doing that just fine herself with Charli XCX?\n <\/p>\n

I really do think that Taylor saw Sabrina Carpenter and Chapell Roan, realized people like songs that talk about sex in an explicit but light-hearted way, and then made the biggest series of miscalculations anyone has ever made<\/p>\n

\u2014 Joseph Fink (@planetoffinks.bsky.social<\/a>) October 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM<\/a><\/p>\n

\n Over the weekend, parents escorted their tweens to the second aspect of Taylor Swift\u2019s doubled-barreled album hype, allegedly a movie, called \u201cTaylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl.\u201d While the film is estimated to have taken in<\/a> at least $33 million, \u201cfilm\u201d is a big word for what this is<\/a>, with the vast majority of the running time being lyric videos over repeating images, low-rent YouTube-style. It begins with behind-the-scenes footage of the video for the lead single, \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia.\u201d Then it plays that video. Then there\u2019s a lot of minutes left.\n <\/p>\n

miss showgirl thinks she\u2019s Kendrick Lamar but in reality she\u2019s the dean of the English department at Lea Michele university<\/p>\n

\u2014 Carrie Wittmer \ud83d\udc7b (@carriesnotscary) October 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\n This movie-like product serves a sanitized version of Swift\u2019s work, changing<\/a> the m\ufeffore penis-oriented and other adult-ish lyrics into a safer version for kiddos and their chaperones. (Swift often releases \u201cclean\u201d versions of her albums for younger listeners.)\n <\/p>\n

\n A \u201clazy big screen cash-in,\u201d is what the Guardian called it<\/a>. In the post-\u201cFrozen\u201d landscape, here in the age of the beloved and excellent \u201cKpop Demon Hunters,\u201d<\/a> parents now, and should, have higher standards for kid-friendly musical entertainment.\n <\/p>\n

\n Taylor Swift is an enormous commercial powerhouse. Her fandom is stupendously large, kind and loyal. Last week, for the album\u2019s release, perfectly normal workplaces were adorned with super-cute charm bracelet-making stations, with fans adding some much-needed rehab vibes to the return-to-office movement.\n <\/p>\n

\n But as cute-seeming as they might be, people with critical things to say online have usually stayed hidden from fandoms like hers. A hater is a dangerous thing to be when fandoms are involved. Rihanna\u2019s Navy, now lost at sea due to her complete inability to release new music, was among the most fearsome. You never wanted to run afoul of the Beyhive (not that you would ever have any reason to); the Arianators were severe, but they, like Ariana Grande herself, found lately greater levels of self-care and enlightenment.\n <\/p>\n

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A trend has gone viral of TikTokers predicting what they think Taylor Swift’s upcoming album \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d will sound like.<\/p>\n

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\n Of all the fandoms, the Swifties have persevered and prospered. They also are generally not too quick to overreact viciously but among the first to be Quietly Very Disappointed In You For Your Opinion. (Although, a fan notes today<\/a>, \u201cThey\u2019ve doxxed reporters, invented ludicrous conspiracies, had public meltdowns in the presence of her music, and contorted themselves into knots to defend her objectively bad behavior.\u201d Sure!) Mostly no one wants to be mean to them, especially because they\u2019re a sweet combination of resilient and defensive.\n <\/p>\n

\n But her fans have been pushed \u2014 notably the situation two years ago, when she took up with Matty Healy, who was despised<\/a> by the fans themselves.\n <\/p>\n

i don\u2019t even gaf if the fate of ophelia has the best musical beat ever conceived, as an ACTUAL english major, i refuse to listen to a song that implies ophelia might\u2019ve reconsidered killing herself if she had just dated a quarterback<\/p>\n

\u2014 nicky (@crimsonclov) October 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\n Swift\u2019s lead single, \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia,\u201d is getting dragged as much as its getting streamed. Swift isn\u2019t helping. Swift\u2019s commentary in the film includes saying \u201cI love Shakespeare!\u201d Indeed, \u201ca song inspired by the classic and tragic Shakespeare character from Hamlet fame,\u201d as JoBlo put it<\/a>, becomes, in Taylor\u2019s boppy version, that she kinda just needed a man: \u201cYou dug me out of my grave and saved my heart.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n She does seem like the type of artist to have the last laugh. Maybe 425 years from now, it\u2019ll be Swift\u2019s work that rings out down through the centuries, and her albums will age just as well as Swift herself describes Shakespeare now: \u201cIt holds up! It\u2019s actually not overhyped!\u201d\n <\/p>\n