In a response to an op-ed in the WaPo, Salon’s Amanda Marcotte points out the double standard applied in the WaPo article: It paints men as hapless bystanders who are excluded from female-centric pop culture, putting the onus on women to provide entertainment for men lest they are deprived of any amusement in life.
Barbie was a masterpiece and Beyoncé is a pretty fucking talented artist.
I think the most impressive thing about Taylor Swift is her ability to get white-girls to care about politics beyond basic white-girl-politics. The credit for that goes to her because all of the people around her told her not to be political at all.
The most impressive thing to me about Taylor Swift is that she sang 44 songs a show, three nights a week in different cities, for months.
That’s a hell of a dedication to craft to be able to pull that off.
Her music has zero emotional affect on or interest for me, but I respect the hell out of her musicianship.
I wouldn’t put Beyonce in the same category as Swift. Swift is actually doing something positive. Beyonce is more sizzle, plays the inspirational card but it’s mostly an act, and she runs sweatshops and lives a much more detached life than Swift, who has a more grounded personality. Beyonce is talented, but she’s not a particularly good person outside of her singing
Taylor Swift seems pretty detached from reality too - last year, she had the highest jet carbon emissions of any celebrity. She tried to excuse it by saying she loaned her jets to friends, ignoring the fact that it’s ultimately her plane, and she’s used over 1,000 times more emissions than the average person.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-private-jet-carbon-dioxide-emissions-study-1235120514/
They’re in the same category for sure